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Re: AR design Wed, 02 August 2006 14:09 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Kotk

 
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iztok wrote on Tue, 01 August 2006 18:59

So - if that's not a bussiness secret Wink - what's your recipie?

Recipe? There are no wonder recipes. I take full MM with IFE-less if needed.
Generally ... IFE is wasted 95 rw points with AR in packed universes, in dense IFE is quite OK investment, in normal its must to have and in sparse ... AR itself is quite masochistic pleasure. Very Happy
Say ... fleet got to fly 195.98ly. It does not mean its 81+81+33.98 ... it is really something like 49.65+64.88+81.54, Some cargo dies otw, so leave biggest jumps into end. OTOH QJ5 Pinta cant take over 51 ly alone so for not colonized place (say you just scouted it, didnt see before) use separate fleet for colonizing where 49.65 step is last or sacrifice some booster scout. Wink Part of the fleet returns after going first step, part after second step, additional fuel may be possibly got from third place etc. Cool Ships can be built anywhere where are minerals not only at HW. Any ship moving in any direction can be used for anything (fuel,mineral or pop transport). Such milligram-splitting cargo management is not always needed in testbed but it makes first 30 years of a real game lot less boring.
If you are starting in iron-dry corner with AR then it is pain anyway and it should be pain. No need to win every game... Just duelled in a galaxy with "19% are expected to be greens" race and HW had 30/30/30 conc and from first 30 planets that i scouted only 1 was green. In normal! Laughing That was tons of enjoyment despite non AR with IFE. I stayed competive majorly thanks to training with IFEless AR-s. Wink
iztok wrote on Wed, 02 August 2006 11:39

To export all grown pop (~39k) from my HW I'd need 2 of them.

HW grows 377kT at 250,900 hold with 15% growth. Otherwise you are right, LF rocks. Costs same as MF+SFX, weights less and has same fuel. It can fit abovementioned 377kT. I dont build SFX, i build other LF to boost my LF for a year if needed. Wink As for 250,900 hold ... i see no reason to hold it... go below it if you have fuel at hand or travel with l
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