Official : Road Network

[Pandemoniak]

What should be our policy for road networks :
1. Only link the cities
2. Link the cities, add an highway to circumvent the base
3. Road all the base radius.

Another question is about the formers. Seeing the design of the Unity Rovers, I thought it would be faster to design a specific kind of former, whihc could move as fast as the rovers : thus, our road infrastructure would be built twice faster. (1st move to move, 2nd move finishes the road, instead of turn 1 : move, turn 2 : finishes the road).

[Pandemoniak]

This poll will last 5 days. Any feedbacks or questions welcomed.

[Method]

i wouldn't build rover formers/colony pods/crawlers until fusion. it's too expensive with fission.

and link bases and circumvent

[Pandemoniak]

I meant only a couple of formers with a rover design, specifically building only (or rather mostly) roads. Others formers would be regular formers.

[DeathByTheSword]

all for it


with the circumvant

[Maniac]

It seems there's a majority for circumventing right now. I do hope, Pandemoniak, you will still give priority to linking our bases and refrain from circumventing until you have enough terraforming power to do the job.

[Pandemoniak]

It will actually depend on the terraforming needed : its a proven fact that a terraformer is very slow, and waste lot of time to move instead of terraforming. Therefore, I will do my best to prevent as much unnecessary movements as possible.
This is actually why I organized my terraforming poll this way : option with the more votes is terraformed first, while the second option with the most votes is terraformed second, if the tile is contiguous to the first tile terraformed.

[Andemagne]

link only. (circumvent maybe later.)

I'm for building only rover formers.

[Method]

rover formers cost WAAAAAY too much! we don't have the time to spend the extra turns on formers IMO.

[moomin]

Ordinary formers. Rover formers are way expensive.

Link only. That's a priority untill we get some serious forming going.

[- Groucho -]

1) link first, alternate routes later. #1 priority should be ability to quickly reinforce cities.

2) Rover formers are too expensive IMHO - I would have to see stats to be convinced that the faster roads are worth more than the cost of the extra build time in foregone units and improvements.

[Pandemoniak]

Well, the stats are quite simpler : a regular former builds 10 sections of roads in 20 turns, while a rover former builds 10 sections in 10 turns. So for the same amount of work, we'd need two regular formers to get the road done in the same time.
Theres not really a best formula between the two options though, its a choice to make or not to make (else, i wouldnt have polled it, I would have go for the best option). But I repeat that these rover-formers would be very few and would mostly build roads.

[Maniac]

It isn't that simple. Only on flat terrain a road takes 1 year to complete. On rolling tiles 2. Not to mention rocky, forest, etcetera territories. This reduces the benefit of rover formers.

And while Base A is still busy building a rover former, Base B can already have built a regular former, and started improving the surrounding terrain, gaining turn adva... Ouch, the forbidden word... ... gaining a quicker return out of our government investments, with those investments having a self-increasing effect to our base's industrial and farming capacity over the years.

[Pandemoniak]

Thats what I was saying ; its just a choice to make, not the best formula to follow : do you think it worth the effort in minerals to build rover-formers for roads or do you think it is wiser to let it go with regular formers.

[Maniac]

Just providing arguments for the heathens...