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Re: HE - usable? Sun, 19 January 2003 03:31 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Right.

It's what makes HE even remotely useable.
It can reach development population quickly from a low start.

But... the lack of gates cripples the hell out of it, and the other problem is...

A direct PGR for hab trade? Not a win. You need twice as many worlds, you're in trouble if it comes to a popdrop war, and those twice as many worlds include a /lot/ more low-value worlds.

People rectify by going tri-immune? Helps. Some.
Certainly it's better than, say, a tri-immune JoAT, who's /NEVER/ going to get planets up there.

But if it was a jump game, or at least one with a fixed (largeish) starting pop? I'd try the JoAT over the HE. (or... possibly IT. Mm, gating pop.) After all, once you're up and running as a tri-immune anything, you're going to /keep/ growing well.

After all, x worlds produces one new one a year... so. But I'm not claiming a tri-immune non-HE is very good, nor am I claiming the tri-immune HE is. Merely that in a 'normal' game, the HE's close enough to viable to compete.
Although, IMO, as something really slower than an HP.

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