03-01-2003, 07:23 PM
Game setup does change everything. Going organic rich, huge, 8 player and pre-warp is a big incentive to play +industry races. Have no doubt, I do love +industry/unification/subterranean race types. They just tend to always be behind in the tech curve, and the player compensates for that --with spying, pirating, ground assault, etc.
Organic rich means difference between those with and without +industry is enlargened hugely. So many mineral poor planets... Prewarp in combination to that means early farmer's gambit expansion favoring +industry buiding colony ships a large advantage. That or early conquest: outpost / troop ships with missle ship escorts. Enemies are close enough by to take over quickly and easily. The tech edge gained by +research early on would be negated by time it'd take to build colony ships. Maybe. I should do a demo run of the first 100~ turns and see how each setup pans out.
Still, I'd like to see you play whyBish. It'd be fun.
Hey whybish, try the following game sometime:
Game setting: Huge/ 8 or less players, Mineral Rich, your choice in difficulty setting, Avg tech. Antarans attack, Random Events and tactical combat.
Race: Subterranean, Democratic, +2 research. Take a minus in spying, ground combat or your pick.
Your tech will be leaps and bounds over everyone elses. Just as Unification gives +industry a bonus in addition to +2 industry, Democracy gives +research bonus in additon to +2 Research. Straight out cash too. I buy automated factories on a regular basis
-Drasca
btw: Doing a ship capture raid on the Antaran homeworld: using a telepathic race, dimension jumping into the antaran homeworld, capturing their advanced ships and retreating them (because telepathic can control captured ships in combat) doesn't work. I've tried. multiple times.
Organic rich means difference between those with and without +industry is enlargened hugely. So many mineral poor planets... Prewarp in combination to that means early farmer's gambit expansion favoring +industry buiding colony ships a large advantage. That or early conquest: outpost / troop ships with missle ship escorts. Enemies are close enough by to take over quickly and easily. The tech edge gained by +research early on would be negated by time it'd take to build colony ships. Maybe. I should do a demo run of the first 100~ turns and see how each setup pans out.
Still, I'd like to see you play whyBish. It'd be fun.
Hey whybish, try the following game sometime:
Game setting: Huge/ 8 or less players, Mineral Rich, your choice in difficulty setting, Avg tech. Antarans attack, Random Events and tactical combat.
Race: Subterranean, Democratic, +2 research. Take a minus in spying, ground combat or your pick.
Your tech will be leaps and bounds over everyone elses. Just as Unification gives +industry a bonus in addition to +2 industry, Democracy gives +research bonus in additon to +2 Research. Straight out cash too. I buy automated factories on a regular basis
-Drasca
btw: Doing a ship capture raid on the Antaran homeworld: using a telepathic race, dimension jumping into the antaran homeworld, capturing their advanced ships and retreating them (because telepathic can control captured ships in combat) doesn't work. I've tried. multiple times.