| Re: IS race design |
Sat, 14 June 2003 13:36   |
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 joseph |
 | Lt. Junior Grade |
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Registered: May 2003
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| Zoid wrote |
I tried a -f IS race in a testbed before and found that the lack of starting techs was crippling, with far too many things to do with my limited resources and not enough to go around. Maybe I didn't do it right, but I figured an IS is a relatively lousy PRT choice for a -f race and never tried it again.
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Well Im no expert but I just finished a game where I played a -f IS race. I came second and lost to a SD who I had been allied to for most of the game (was a "There can be only 1" game).
The way to play is to launch a few scouts in the first turn then run for const 4 for the next few years (you will get it when your pop reaches 4000-5000 if you have 18-20% growth (I had 20% and 1/800 but I would probably tweak that in the future)).
Then you build 2 privateers and a ft each turn (more for the first turn) and as many Santa marias as you can (and mines lots of em).
Colonise everything! send out the Mini Orgys (2P +FT +2-5SM) and just drop your surplus pop on each planet as you pass (red green who cares!) if you find a planet that’s 50% or higher drop your full load and return to the homeworld (or other world that has surplus pop).
Later when you run out of room (ie meet races that have sufficient defences that you cant just pop drop them) use your grow in ships to overfill your planets (a 100% world can raise 2750 resources at 1/800 with OBRM –2200 with 1/1000. This is not as good as a factory race can get but you only need to build 8-10 large freighters rather than all those factories).
I ranked 1st for a lot of the game and even outpaced some f races in resources at times - at the end I was only 5k adrift of the SD and I could get this by dropping most of my flying pop on planets.
Its not a universe beating monster, but I had fun with it and it lasts into the end game a bit better due to being able to get twice the resources per planet other –f races get (you can also get 100+ resources from each red world –small I know but every little helps).
Joseph
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[Updated on: Sun, 15 June 2003 00:21] by Moderator
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