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Re: AR design Thu, 04 September 2003 07:27 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Hi!
Dogthinkers wrote on Thu, 04 September 2003 04:10


But how did the resource penalty on your early development? The early game is when AR is at it's most vulnerable, so anything that slows early development could be crippling. Did you find this to be the case?

I've experimented a lot with the Joseph Oberlandtner's idea of NO ARM + NO IFE AR race. Did quite a number of testbeds. In some I took 1/25 divisor. Such a race starts quite slow, so I decided to take again IFE and add TT for faster growth. That combo, and cheap Energy really helped. In the same universe it's res at 2450 were almost the same, as from 1/10 race. But it still had the same problem with lack of minerals early. Even a bit greater, as it could not produce those remote miners so fast as 1/10 race. So I decided not to use AR for my race in a standard PBEM game.
BR, Iztok

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