Hive Strategy

[Rokossovky]

Indeed. He has a point. Thus, they serve a MORE useful purpose floating around as reminders of our glorious communist abilities than as weapons destroying our future comrades.

[Jamski]

Unless we build enough to eliminate all the other factions in one turn (done that a few times)

-Jam

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by War of Art
Unless we build enough to eliminate all the other factions in one turn (done that a few times)

-Jam

With the minerals we'll be crawling I don't think that'll be too much trouble.

[Jamski]

Don't forget our +3 industry (when we get the right SE choices) 30% reduction is a lot when building the more expensive stuff

-Jam

[Googlie]

^

(it's been a month .........................)

[Snowflake]

In name of CCC, I demand an explanation of current status of our faction. Is there a valid technical explanation behind it, or is that because all the Hivers are too distracted by those unproductive propaganda activities? I strongly urge some people, (yes, that means you! ) go back and sharpen your knives and make a significant effort to ensure the long run viability of the Human Hive! Please don't overlook the seriousness of this issue. Failure of result producing will lead to overburden of Comrade Vev.

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by HongHu
In name of CCC, I demand an explanation of current status of our faction. Is there a valid technical explanation behind it, or is that because all the Hivers are too distracted by those unproductive propaganda activities? I strongly urge some people, (yes, that means you! ) go back and sharpen your knives and make a significant effort to ensure the long run viability of the Human Hive! Please don't overlook the seriousness of this issue. Failure of result producing will lead to overburden of Comrade Vev.

I agree with Comrade HongHu, the People's Ministers need to account for why our factions is lagging behind on the power graph. Also, to ensure that the CCC is completely serious about this issue, there will be a rearrangement of the People's Ministries soon if results do not turn up.

-Chairman Voltaire

[Voltaire]

Comrade HongHu, seeing the lack of a People's Minister of Social Engineering, I appoint you to the post. Your duties will include setting the social engineering settings for out faction, as well as allocating energy expenditures.

-Chairman Voltaire

[Vev]

Are there any possible reasons for lagging behind? AC experts anyone? Military? Energy? Tech? Territory? Population?

[Frankychan]

Hmmm, not quite sure. In games that I've played, both single and IP, the Hive lags behind in the graph but for my experiences that doesn't account for much. I've noticed that I'll have a huge army but I'll still be on the bottom of the graph even when I'm launching invasion campaigns and taking over cities of the enemy. The basic thing I pay attention to is the one where it lists the area of choice (Military, Territory, Tech, Wealth/Credits/Whatever) and it gives the leading faction name. This is the one we should be paying attention to the most.

It'll give us a general idea of where we stand against the other factions. But I've noticed that the Hive lags at the beginning anyway and eventually (once the ball gets rolling) becomes the leading faction in everything.

[Vev]

That's is a relief Now we shall unite and conquer the world and monopolise xenodoughnut sales

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Vev
Are there any possible reasons for lagging behind? AC experts anyone? Military? Energy? Tech? Territory? Population?

At this early stage - techs primarily, then population.

You started with 1 (Ind Base) and only the Drones started with one (the same tech), and the Believers.

Their research is embargoed for ten years (as is the Believers), so they will be dead last given that the B's started with three bases already built

The Hive is next to last, then the Pirates, Cycon and Believers. The Uni, with their discovering 'Secrets' have passed the Angels for the tech lead. They'll likely stay that way for a while until Roze gets Doc Flex and gets her cruiser probes up and running for infiltration (and you'll never have enough defensive probes in your bases - she'll just 'gang tackle' you with three or four cruiser probes one after the other until she's in)

Once she's infiltrated three, then her faction's techshare bonus kicks in, and it isn't long before she regains the tech lead, cos it's not the techs of just these infiltrated 3 that count, it's anyone's techs whether infiltrated by her or not

G.

[Vev]

Ouch, nasty hackers! We don't trust them hackers. Not to mention I-like-to-probe-too Miriam.

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Vev
Not to mention I-like-to-probe-too Miriam.

Ah, yes - not to mention her

In the Scenario Editor there's a feature "Set Faction Strategy" with a check list per faction of things they'll concentrate on, such as "emphasize land power or sea power, etc. there's also a series of tabs "build lotsa terraformers" and "build lotsa missiles", etc

The one you gotta know I checked for both AI factions was "Build lotsa Probes"

GGLIE

[Frankychan]

Yargh!