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Re: How do U use Boosters?

Thu, 26 June 2003 17:11

Crusader

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Abaddon wrote on Tue, 24 June 2003 03:35

Would it be a silly question to ask when boosters are at their most useful?
I only seem to use them to increase the range / speed of colony ships / assaulting troop transports....
What does anyone else use them for?

When I use them, which is not always, but when I do it is always with the intent to keep pop out of space as much as possible and on a planet where they can be growing and adding resources to the economy. When playing a HG race that is not one of the "economic" races, then I consider it absolutely imperative that I keep my population in space for a minimum amount of time. Cutting just one year off of travel time really adds up when you are talking about pop-balancing for the 1st 50 years of a game.

Really, about the only time that I don't consider this imperative is when I'm playing an IS race, since the pop grows in space anyways; but even then it is not a good idea to just let a pop shipment lollygag along through the galaxy at a leisurely pace.

Any other use of boosters would be a matter of ... well ... opportunity I suppose. Getting the minerals to a MT on time, before it passes me by, for instance. Catching an incoming enemy fleet before it can do too much damage, or catching one attempting to run away even.

But in the final analysis, the entire rationale for the existance of boosters is to supply the fuel needed to keep pop runs as quick as possible.

One small cavaet to all this, and perhaps your mileage DOES vary Laughing

, is that in my own experience, I have never gotten the whole concept of boosters to work well unless I was using IFE and the good, ol' Fuel Mizer engine. The gains of trying to use boosters with the DD7 engine, as an example, is so minimal as to be useless. This may be an obvious point to all of you, but just on the off-chance that it prevent someone from trying to use boosters in a useless situation I have decided to mention it anyway. If I don't take IFE, then I just simply don't worry about using boosters. I'll build SFX's once they are available, though, just to make sure that I have ready fuel for my battle fleets, or that rare, really long-range freighter run.

Counter-point? my 2 cents

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The Crusader Angel

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		How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Fri, 20 June 2003 15:22
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: FurFuznel on Fri, 20 June 2003 15:55
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		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Paladin on Sat, 21 June 2003 07:19
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Sat, 21 June 2003 10:53
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Coyote on Sat, 21 June 2003 13:23
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Sat, 21 June 2003 14:56
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: iztok on Sun, 22 June 2003 04:05
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: zoid on Sun, 22 June 2003 06:26
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Micha on Sun, 22 June 2003 07:29
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Sun, 22 June 2003 09:35
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: zoid on Wed, 25 June 2003 01:36
		Sorry to the Zoid (Re: How do U use Boosters?) By: Micha on Wed, 25 June 2003 10:20
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 25 June 2003 12:42
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Ron on Wed, 25 June 2003 15:08
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: overworked on Wed, 25 June 2003 15:16
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Wed, 25 June 2003 15:35
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: joseph on Sun, 22 June 2003 17:31
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Paladin on Sun, 22 June 2003 20:46
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: boneandrew on Sun, 22 June 2003 20:55
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Coyote on Sun, 22 June 2003 23:57
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Abaddon on Tue, 24 June 2003 04:35
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: iztok on Thu, 26 June 2003 04:25
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Thu, 26 June 2003 17:11
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: zoid on Fri, 27 June 2003 02:24
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: mazda on Fri, 27 June 2003 07:24
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Fri, 27 June 2003 09:12
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: iztok on Tue, 01 July 2003 08:53
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: mazda on Tue, 01 July 2003 12:20
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Tue, 01 July 2003 13:11
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Micha on Wed, 25 June 2003 10:34
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Mon, 30 June 2003 09:32
		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: overworked on Mon, 30 June 2003 20:31
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		Re: How do U use Boosters? By: Crusader on Tue, 01 July 2003 22:47
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