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Re: IS race design

Thu, 12 June 2003 01:21

zoid

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iztok wrote on Wed, 11 June 2003 00:35

Hi!

vonKreedon wrote on Tue, 10 June 2003 12:58

IS has a couple of early game toys, Mini-gun and Croby Sharmor, that combined with the pop's inherent defensive capability and cheap defenses make it easier to defend your early game gains.

Have you ever tried to get all those toys with HW still ramping, and with 2/3 res output of HGs, or building defenses on a new planet with 100k pop producing 40 res?

Sorry, the only IS advantage when comes to early pop-drop wars is pop defense bonus. After your HW turns green (turn 22-25) you can start researching and building DDs with minigun. Weap cheap rest expensive @ 3 has quite some drawbacks for early tech rush for FFs and croby Sad

BR, Iztok

I agree. Croby Sharmor at tech 7 is not really an "early" technology, and the worst thing about IS is you start with absolutely zilch for technology unless you make some other tough trade-offs for early gain. When I start a game as IS and find myself with an initial ranking of 13 out of 13 players, I know I'm the only one playing IS. Laughing

As Iztok said, there is very little in the way of early advantages for an IS. Croby sharmor (EN7) equipped frigates (C6) are not an early warship when you're trying to build an economy (and they're pretty expensive for a -f race), the planetary defenses though half cost are something you usually don't bother with when you're trying to build your economy, the tachyon detectors come way late at EL14 because so many other tech fields take priority. Somewhat the same with Superfreighters at C13 (albeit to a much lesser extent, but I wouldn't call getting them at 2440-2450 "early"), and the jammer 50 comes way after nubians. Building the speed bump minelayers will bankrupt an early economy of resources and minerals (god they're expensive!).

That only leaves the IS player with three real early advantages - pop defense bonus and pop reproduction on freighters - but I LOVE the low tech (and cheap!) fuel transports best. A cheap warp 5 fuel t ...

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		IS race design By: iztok on Tue, 10 June 2003 06:32
		Re: IS race design By: gible on Tue, 10 June 2003 07:59
		Re: IS race design By: Sinla on Tue, 10 June 2003 08:16
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		Re: IS race design By: Sinla on Tue, 10 June 2003 11:46
		Re: IS race design By: The Taubat on Tue, 10 June 2003 11:52
		Re: IS race design By: vonKreedon on Tue, 10 June 2003 12:58
		Re: IS race design By: Crusader on Tue, 10 June 2003 15:49
		Re: IS race design By: iztok on Wed, 11 June 2003 03:35
		Re: IS race design By: zoid on Thu, 12 June 2003 01:21
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