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Re: AR design Wed, 02 August 2006 04:39 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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multilis wrote on Tue, 01 August 2006 23:56

From your description it appears Medium transport+extra SFX would work better, and starts one const level sooner.

At con3 it would have been medium freighters+scouts.

Thanks for trying, but for 3 W-9 jumps a fully loaded QJ-5 MF needs about 3000mg fuel Shocked . To export all grown pop (~39k) from my HW I'd need 2 of them. A single QJ-5 LF costs about the same iron as two MFs, 30% less germ and 30% more resources, but gives three times the cargo space and (currently most importantly) more than twice the fuel Thumbs Up . At distances to two W-8 jumps I've been able to export all the growth just with those LFs without boosters. I faced the real fuel problem when exporting pop further than 2 W-9 jumps, as those SFX boosters costed as much iron as MFs. The second testbed was really criticall, as my greens were quite iron-poor, and most of unsettled greens/yellows was in 150LY-230LY distance. Thanks good it was just a testbed.

IMO the race needs prop normal. That would go well with scoops and non-immune gravity. IFE is less usefull, as it is more expensive and still doesn't solve the high costs of grav terra.

BR, Iztok

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