Home World Forum: HE » HE

Home » Primary Racial Traits » HE » HE - usable?

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: HE - usable?

Mon, 27 January 2003 11:56

Apelord

Master Chief Petty Officer

Messages: 99
Registered: November 2002

An issue I see with HE is this:

1) To get high techs takes a lot of resources
2) For an HE to get the same resources takes 1.5-2x as amany planets
3) Ship production for an HE is diffuse due to large numbers of small worlds required for #1
4) No gates makes gathering such production difficult And it uses lots of fleets per turn.
5) Fleets are capped at 512,
6) Thus an HE w/70 planets kicking out ships (equivalent to you HG design with 30-35 worlds doing so) uses 70 fleets per turn.
7) If it takes 3 years to gather fleets (warp 10= any/300 gates of an IT), then an HE will have 280 fleets in use just for gathering their ships.
Cool

leaves them extremely vulnerable to being outskirmished in front of an advancing fleet that forks well...
9) also leaves them as a mind-numbing excercise of merging fleets together with tons of room for player error and production to get screwed up as a result.
10) leads to another weakness:time constraints. If you are fighting an HE you could potentially cause the other player to make huge mistakes by giving him too much to look (skirmishing/minelaying/feint, etc.) at in the 60 minutes or so they have to play the game each day. If your opponent has a few hours per day to spend on their turns, you can keep it up and cause them to get really worn down quickly (3-4 hours of Stars! per day for two weeks wreaks hell on a marriage).

Not my favorite race by any means...

"The object of war is not to die
for your country but to make
the other bastard die for his" -George Patton

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Mon, 02 December 2002 13:43
		Re: HE - usable? By: EDog on Mon, 02 December 2002 23:16
		Re: HE - usable? By: BlueTurbit on Mon, 02 December 2002 23:54
		Re: HE - usable? By: Mangar on Tue, 03 December 2002 01:13
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Tue, 03 December 2002 07:01
		Re: HE - usable? By: Stalwart on Tue, 03 December 2002 15:00
		Re: HE - usable? By: EDog on Tue, 03 December 2002 21:14
		Re: HE - usable? By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 04 December 2002 00:34
		Re: HE - usable? By: TheJorrus on Wed, 04 December 2002 10:41
		Re: HE - usable? By: SimonM on Wed, 04 December 2002 17:43
		Re: HE - usable? By: johng316 on Fri, 27 December 2002 18:19
		Re: HE - usable? By: Hetzer on Tue, 03 December 2002 16:11
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Wed, 04 December 2002 13:40
		Re: HE - usable? By: Apelord on Wed, 04 December 2002 17:55
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Wed, 04 December 2002 20:15
		Re: HE - usable? By: Apelord on Wed, 04 December 2002 20:35
		Re: HE - usable? By: tech25 on Wed, 04 December 2002 21:10
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Wed, 04 December 2002 21:59
		Re: HE - usable? By: Apelord on Wed, 04 December 2002 22:33
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Wed, 04 December 2002 22:39
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Thu, 05 December 2002 02:36
		Re: HE - usable? By: FurFuznel on Thu, 05 December 2002 11:25
		Re: HE - usable? By: Apelord on Thu, 05 December 2002 12:59
		Re: HE - usable? By: Stalwart on Thu, 05 December 2002 13:58
		Re: HE - usable? By: Robert on Thu, 05 December 2002 14:14
		Re: HE - usable? By: Stalwart on Fri, 20 December 2002 15:54
		Re: HE - usable? By: TheJorrus on Mon, 13 January 2003 11:21
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Fri, 27 December 2002 21:08
		Re: HE - usable? By: EDog on Fri, 27 December 2002 22:40
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Fri, 27 December 2002 22:55
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Sat, 28 December 2002 09:56
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Sat, 28 December 2002 19:19
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Sun, 29 December 2002 16:27
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Sun, 29 December 2002 18:04
		Re: HE - usable? By: BlueTurbit on Sun, 29 December 2002 19:44
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Sun, 29 December 2002 20:03
		Re: HE - usable? By: johng316 on Sun, 29 December 2002 19:40
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Thu, 16 January 2003 00:36
		Re: HE - usable? By: TheJorrus on Thu, 16 January 2003 10:30
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Thu, 16 January 2003 17:21
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Thu, 16 January 2003 23:56
		Re: HE - usable? By: Sotek on Fri, 17 January 2003 00:17
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Fri, 17 January 2003 00:40
		Re: HE - usable? By: TheJorrus on Sat, 18 January 2003 04:29
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Sat, 18 January 2003 04:41
		Re: HE - usable? By: Sotek on Sat, 18 January 2003 05:18
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Sat, 18 January 2003 14:51
		Re: HE - usable? By: Sotek on Sat, 18 January 2003 20:32
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Sat, 18 January 2003 21:43
		Re: HE - usable? By: Sotek on Sat, 18 January 2003 22:27
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Sun, 19 January 2003 00:59
		Re: HE - usable? By: ccmaster on Sat, 17 April 2004 12:42
		Re: HE - usable? By: multilis on Fri, 23 April 2004 14:48
		Re: HE - usable? By: Steve1 on Sat, 24 April 2004 14:17
		Re: HE - usable? By: Carn on Sat, 24 April 2004 14:34
		Re: HE - usable? By: Hetzer on Sat, 24 April 2004 21:33
		Re: HE - usable? By: mlaub on Sun, 25 April 2004 15:35
		Re: HE - usable? By: ccmaster on Sun, 25 April 2004 15:40
		Re: HE - usable? By: Carn on Sun, 25 April 2004 15:46
		Re: HE - usable? By: ccmaster on Sun, 25 April 2004 15:57
		Re: HE - usable? By: mlaub on Mon, 26 April 2004 11:14
		Re: HE - usable? By: ccmaster on Mon, 26 April 2004 15:44
		Re: HE - usable? By: mlaub on Mon, 26 April 2004 17:15
		Re: HE - usable? By: multilis on Mon, 26 April 2004 18:14
		Re: HE - usable? By: Crusader on Mon, 26 April 2004 18:25
		Re: HE - usable? By: ccmaster on Tue, 27 April 2004 09:24
		Re: HE - usable? By: mlaub on Tue, 27 April 2004 15:06
		Re: HE - usable? By: ccmaster on Wed, 28 April 2004 09:25
		Re: HE - usable? By: mlaub on Wed, 28 April 2004 10:15
		Re: HE - usable? By: Stalwart on Mon, 30 December 2002 00:10
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Mon, 30 December 2002 02:30
		Re: HE - usable? By: johng316 on Mon, 30 December 2002 17:12
		Re: HE - usable? By: Stalwart on Mon, 30 December 2002 23:05
		Re: HE - usable? By: ninja_squirrel on Tue, 31 December 2002 06:27
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Mon, 13 January 2003 14:13
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Mon, 13 January 2003 19:19
		Re: HE - usable? By: TheJorrus on Tue, 14 January 2003 10:24
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Tue, 14 January 2003 14:01
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Tue, 14 January 2003 19:47
		Re: HE - usable? By: freakyboy on Thu, 16 January 2003 10:36
		Re: HE - usable? By: TheJorrus on Thu, 16 January 2003 10:42
		Re: HE - usable? By: BackBlast on Mon, 24 February 2003 17:30
		Re: HE - usable? By: yucaf on Tue, 25 February 2003 13:37
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Tue, 25 February 2003 22:50
		Re: HE - usable? By: BackBlast on Wed, 26 February 2003 00:27
		Re: HE - usable? By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 26 February 2003 11:24
		Re: HE - usable? By: yucaf on Wed, 26 February 2003 23:43
		Re: HE - usable? By: Sotek on Sun, 19 January 2003 03:31
		Re: HE - usable? By: jeffimix on Sun, 19 January 2003 12:07
		Re: HE - usable? By: Apelord on Mon, 27 January 2003 11:56
		Re: HE - usable? By: zoid on Tue, 28 January 2003 03:24
		Re: HE - usable? By: gible on Wed, 29 January 2003 05:18
		Re: HE - usable? By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 05 February 2003 06:30
		Re: HE - usable? By: Steve1 on Wed, 10 September 2003 11:42
		Re: HE - usable? By: iztok on Wed, 13 December 2006 07:29
		Re: HE - usable? By: Carn on Thu, 01 March 2007 08:36
		Re: HE - usable? By: iztok on Thu, 01 March 2007 16:05
		Re: HE - usable? By: Carn on Fri, 02 March 2007 05:05

Previous Topic:	HP 2i HE
Next Topic:	Higher factory cost for HE

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Tue May 14 07:21:42 EDT 2024