Official: the borehole poll

[Maniac]

(Edit: Please read Base Square as Base Radius in the 6th and 7th poll options. )

(For once it isn't a multichoice poll. You have three days to vote.)

It's about time we determine some rules concerning borehole placement - if you want any at all of course. Therefore I offer you the following choices. For more discussion, have a look at the Centauri Preserve.

No boreholes at all!

Keep boreholes a rare event for special tiles - every one planned for construction needs to be mentioned or discussed in the Centauri Preserve.

Build them but keep it modest: zero to two per base depending on the surrounding terrain.

Build them but keep it within certain limits: two to four per base depending on the surrounding terrain.

Try to build as many as possible of them, but respect the Big Huge Terraformation poll, i.e. only on arid and rarely moist squares. Also don't reform already terraformed tiles.

Use some system to cramp as many as possible of them in each base radius (6?), regardless of underlying terrain (eg also on rainy squares), but don't reform already terraformed tiles.

Use some system to cramp as many as possible of them in each base radius (6?), regardless of underlying terrain (eg also on rainy squares), and reform already terraformed tiles.

That's it. Start voting!

[Drogue]

I'd go for somewhere between 'every one planned' and 'keep it modest'. They can be great for creating powerhouses, but i usully crawl them, so that an energy powerhouse (usually only the one) gets access to large quantities of energy but doesn't have the bad eco effects, and minerals bases don't have them built in base squares so as to highten eco damage. the last thing we want is worm rape (or worse, locust rape )

[Method]

boreholes are great things - between 2-4, and as many as possible. not until after environ econ though.

crawling boreholes is a bad idea IMO. they take too long to build to only exploit half of their potential

[Pandemoniak]

I'd go for somewhere between 'every one planned' and 'keep it modest': "any borehole after the first per base must be discussed in the Centauri Preserve", could be an option.
I voted every one planned, though.

[Kirov]

Keep them modest, but build boreholes also outside base tiles to crawl them.

[Drogue]

I disagree with TKG. I think sometimes a base only wants one of their resources. Also, if it was a choice between only building inside base area, or not building at all, i go for the not at all, theres just way to much Eco damage IMHO.

[GeneralTacticus]

It's not all that much, as long as there are enough forests inside the radius (and there's no damage at all with a Hybrid Forest built).

[Pandemoniak]

GT, I think we might need a couple of boreholes before we can build an hybrid forest.

[GeneralTacticus]

So what? The ecodamage won't last for very long.

[Pandemoniak]

I wont let you be the cancer of the planet. I'll be the cure.

/me puts his sunglasses on and ask to be called "Johnson".

[Drogue]

Go Pande!!

[Maniac]

Hmm. I guess the DIE would need to organize a poll whether we should(n't) crawl boreholes.

[Kirov]

GT, note that sometimes you have to remove workers from borehole tiles in order to avoid rampant ED. If you have actually worked the borehole, you lose 6 min and 6 energy, but if you have _crawled_ that borehole, then you can simply switch from min to energy and voila! You're ecofriendly and rich.

[moomin]

Voted 2-4 per base. That's the amount of workers that can be allocated without serious drone problems, and we can crawl nuts.

But then again, we're the peacekeepers and this is only Talent, so perhaps we could squeeze in another one or two eventually.

[Earwicker]

Originally posted by Kirov
GT, note that sometimes you have to remove workers from borehole tiles in order to avoid rampant ED. If you have actually worked the borehole, you lose 6 min and 6 energy, but if you have _crawled_ that borehole, then you can simply switch from min to energy and voila! You're ecofriendly and rich.

Crawling energy from the borehole is a good interim option when the ecodamage gets too high, but for the most part boreholes should be used fully. The extra minerals will help along the construction of expensive facilities like TF/ HF.

We can begin two programs simultaneously: one for the construction of tree farms, another to assign formers to borehole construction. With the right timing, the eco-calming effects of the tree farms will coincide with the increase in eco-damage the boreholes bring.

Zero to 2 per base.