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Re: HE - usable? Sun, 19 January 2003 12:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Thats why 4-5% growth is so popular. While you can make a 6% an average tri-immune (and can push 7% but that's hard to make viable) 4-5% give you HP-ish factories with 1000/res creature production, then you can sometimes afford better tech/LRTs or similiar since at 4% you get a lot of points (I like stting factory cost way down low to make factories catch population faster than any other race so I can research, build ships, et cetera)

Also, the Settler's Delight is such a powerful engine I believe that you can stick to the mini-colonizer hull and not have to take IFE (low growth, use cargo podded ships for freighters). Since the fuel mizer isn't the greatest combat engine out there you shouldn't have a proble mas HE without IFE.

That's my belief on HE. Oh and yeah, with doubled growth and half pop you get same mass people results.

I will also say that while HE I believe are a moderately difficult race to play as well as other races they are still as good (even tri-immunes) as most non-econ based PRTs. They do get crippled from no stargates, but thats only unlivable in medium+ universes, you can plan around it marginally well in toher universes. Besides, it means they are good allies for IT and SS.... SS can overcloak the non gating fleets so its harder to run around them, IT for the obvious reason.

Tri-immune HE make good allies, they can afford to give you surplus planets.



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