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Re: AR design Mon, 10 July 2006 14:35 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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that's another point why wide hab is bad, include AR

Erm, I don't quite understand this. By this logic 3-immune HE shouldn't work at all. Wider hab just means more of everything. In most cases (but MM Wink ) that's good.

Tomasoid wrote on Mon, 10 July 2006 13:26

Let's assume that from 9 planets you get 135 mines equivalent (150 from 10 as you said). You can build 3 mining rbots instead and have 108 mines equivalent. And mine minerals 2 turns (or more) earlier! Is that much different? I think YES. What's wrong in this logic?

Noting is wrong. It's just different approach. When I started exploring AR in details I too used to build some mini miners with Maxi-miner robot. However there were two problems I usually met:
1) I could build them only on HW, and it was rarely rich enough to allow those miners pay for themself in the time I got tech for Super-robot miner. If I've built Stations on rich green planets, I created a germ shortage there, that in some cases limited building of Ultras ~8 turns lately.
2) It was also big fuell problem to move those heavy miners to even remotly far planets in reasonable time.

So in my latest games I dropped that concept, because at the time I really needed more minerals I already had tech for Ultrastations and with them the tech for Super robot.

Now I grow pop on Docks, and even allow some moderate crowding there and exporting pop to nearby reds, while "rocketing" for con-12 (sometimes even before en-10). Meanwhile all those yellows/reds provide enough minerals for nearby green planets to easily build there Ultras and Super-robot remotes at the time tech for them is available.

BR, Iztok
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