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Kotk wrote on Thu, 06 July 2006 19:49

Tomasoid wrote on Thu, 06 July 2006 17:47 What to say... just try it out. Okay PM me a zip with tiny/packed/solo AR testbed with 1 in 5 hab and 35K resources at 2450 (start of midgame) or ... try that PRT out yourself first.

I feel tiny packed is too small for such testing

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Quote: Remember that you need to bring minerals back (see above about freighters). Whatever. Does not take rocket science to find other options to freightering. All i can add that I usually have 30+ colonies at 2420 so its possible.

And 60+ in year 30 or so, right? (To have any reasonable benefit from colonizing a lot of bad green and red planets, you need to colonize a LOT of them.) That's exactly what I tried too and such AR did not do weel afterall because lack of minerals. Or, maybe I did not put enough effort to bring back minerals from bad greens? Anyway I did not like MM of it for seems no much benefit.

Well, you may have your own strategy with really wide hab AR which you know so weel that I might ovelook some details or tricks related with it. I usually just build mining robots because see that this gives minerals a bit earlier than with colonizing bad greens.

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Quote: At the later game when you can drop tons of pop onto planet from neighbour Death Star and quickly get its hab 50% or even more, I agree, this pays off a lot. Yep but I did not talk about reds. With wide hab these all are greens I take plus some casual well-placed yellows for fuel docks.

I also meant by above bad green and yellow planets (with hab% less than 50%-60% after teraforming). These are slow for teraforming and barely could be useful for mid-game survival if you select too wide hab - because wide hab teraforiming is too slow.

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Quote: Quote: I am not saying that "pump everything into wider hab", that this is golden rule. Just ... in my testbeds wider hab seems sometimes better investment than IFE or cheap energy. It seems always better investment than growth rat

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