Science Thread

[Drogue]

Have updated. Will hold new poll. What do you think? I've play tested this a bit, and it seems good. The thing I noticed though is that as soon as I start going to war, getting nonlinear math early, I gain much power. We are a great force to attack, especially pre-FM/Wealth. That is a different subject though.

Edit: If we cannot get Cent. Eco. again next time, what should we research? I would say Ind. Base, Ind. Econ. and then Ind. Auto., since then we get Synthmetal, FM and crawlers Obviously inserting Cent. Eco. as soon as we can

[Drogue]

Have updated again, forgot environmental economics (energy restrictions and tree farms) last time

Will poll for this as a basis, and for the next tech.

[Googlie]

And given that Random Events are possible, don't ignore building the Special Project the Planetary Energy Grid

It's available after Adaptive Economics whose prereqs are Industrial Economics (you are going there anyway) and Field Modulation (after Prog Psych) which as a by-product gives 3-res armor, better than Plasma 'cos of its +25% against mindworms, etc. (and is cumulative with trance giving awesome base defenders)

With "Stockpile Energy" being permitted, this bonus gets doubled with an Energy Bank in a base.

So if your science beeline gets stalled at any time, consider Prog Psych. Field Modulation and Adaptive Economics as possible alternatives

Just a thought

G.

[Drogue]

That is a good idea. I had thought about it (this tree was based on the one I used with SMAC) so I might take our plasma, and put prog psych, field mod and adapt. econ. in instead. Or usually the AI go for field mod early, so we could trade for it, and get the planetary energy grid. Not only does it save much production time, it saves 1 Ec per turn per base we want to build an energy bank in Would be useful!

[Method]

aw, crap. i always forget about the PEG. it's really a great thing to have, i just forgot about it again. anyways, to adaptive economics

[Cedayon]

I'm still worried the drones and/or hive are going to snatch up all the good SPs, those industry bonuses can be brutal. We'll have to get a lead by getting the tech earlier than they.

[Corellion]

I agree with Cedayon... the way we're going to survive in this world is to get the tech lead and keep it... at all costs. We shouldn't let our techs out (without very good reason), and especially not to the PUT. We need to exploit this advantage for all we've got. If the Hive attacks us with their hoards of impact rovers, we'll needlejet them to their graves. If the drones try to snatch the WP from us, we'll laugh, because we were 1 turn away when they finally traded for the tech. If the pirates attempt to destroy our navy, we'll surprise them when our subs sneak past their defences. And if Miriam attacks... we pound her scout patrols with our gravships!

[Cedayon]

And if Googlie's uber-daemon-locusts show up?

[Googlie]

Even Gods are not immune to double posts .......

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Cedayon
And if Googlie's uber-daemon-locusts show up?

LOL - you have more to fear from Roze's flotillas of cruiser probes - and she'll gang-probe you as well, with more than one probeteam visiting any exposed bases (in the playtest - not as the CC, though - I had a probe in a coastal base and was feeling quite smug, then I got visited by 3 cruisers - the first one took out my probe, the second took a tech and the third took the base.

Had to pick my jaw up from the floor after that one.

(And I never did manage to infiltrate Roze, from any of the factions)

G.

[DeathByTheSword]

this roze fucntion needs to be dealt with....quickly

[Drogue]

Has been updated and Doc Flex added to compensate for current conditions.

[Corellion]

This gets the Internal Affairs Seal of Approval...

...for now.

[Drogue]

Has been updated for Non Math, since, IMHO, we need impact foils ASAP. If the Internal Affairs Function starts a thread for his office, then I will formally request that he switch our Science towards this end.

Let us be proper 'Borgs - If we don't get what we want from diplomacy, we simply take it

[Maniac]

I just noticed: where is Doctrine: Air Power in that list? In all PBEMs I've played D:AP is researched quite early, so it would be quite inprudent to be the only one not having it.