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Re: HP/HG hybrid

Sat, 14 June 2003 16:27

zoid

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Sotek wrote

A -f/HG hybrid, however, is possible.
1/1000 popeff, and facts at something like 10/9/10 or so. You don't rely on the facts, but they do give a reasonable boost. (Doubling, I believe.).
This is designed to give you -f ramp early, and let you fight as a -f in recolonization and such, but give you a bit more late punch. The problem is that those points that 5/25/5 gives you, you don't have now, so you have to get them elsewhere, but it can be quite a viable race.

freakyboy wrote on Sat, 14 June 2003 04:55

With the mineral costs of factories I've made a personal decision to either build lots or build none.

If I'm going to play -F... I'm going to play -F.
If I'm gonna build factories as well then it's not a -F race! lol.

I tried something like this once in a duel against Micha. I was using the SS prt and I made a "-f" race with 10,25,10 (no check) factory settings. I wanted to play a factoryless race that had some long-term chance to remain competetive with HG's and HP's. The idea wasn't to build factories, I just wanted to be able to put captured factories to some use.

Of course, since I was playing against Micha I didn't capture any factories, so it was pointless. Laughing

Worse, he knew I was trying a new race design, and I'm pretty sure he was merely playing a passive-defender role without trying to kill me, just to let me test my design against a non-aggressive human opponent.

Maybe my design would work playing against someone in my own league, but I suspect it was unworkable even against someone of my own caliber. IIRC, I decided that it was hopeless because I couldn't afford immunities during race design, and in the game all my resources were spent terraforming tiny green worlds and building transports to export population. I didn't have the resources for warships or research, and found myself at a disadvantage from start to finish (which was about 2450 IIRC when I conceded), having never launched anything better than a couple pathetically weak and failed attempts to capture on ...

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		HP/HG hybrid By: regiss on Fri, 13 June 2003 07:08
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: Paladin on Fri, 13 June 2003 08:56
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: Hetzer on Fri, 13 June 2003 19:47
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: Sotek on Sat, 14 June 2003 00:50
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: Crusader on Fri, 13 June 2003 16:34
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: freakyboy on Sat, 14 June 2003 07:55
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: zoid on Sat, 14 June 2003 16:27
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: LEit on Sat, 14 June 2003 17:51
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: regiss on Mon, 16 June 2003 02:55
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: Sotek on Mon, 16 June 2003 06:14
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: regiss on Mon, 16 June 2003 06:23
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: Sotek on Mon, 16 June 2003 15:24
		Re: HP/HG hybrid By: boneandrew on Mon, 07 July 2003 22:34

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