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**Jamski** · August 26, 2003, 03:12

Well, one thing we DON'T need to worry about is clean reactors. We have great support anyway, and not masses of cash, so we can forget those Morganite tools, and spend our cash elsewhere.

Re : Power vs Wealth :

We really should consider Power as an option when the time comes to go to war. Sure we lose 2 industry, taking us from +3 to +1, BUT each base will be paying slightly less minerals as support, which offsets the industry hit slightly. We'll still have better industry than the Uni, assuming they're running Demo/FM/Knowledge, and all our units will become 25% stronger immediately. If we can get the Command Nexus too, that would give us another 2 levels of morale, and if each unit is sure to visit a monolith too, we'll have LOTS of elite units. Sure, they'll cost 20% more to build, but they'll be 50% better, and get an extra move. If we REALLY have to, we could run Fundy as well, but I think it would only be nessesscary if either we don't get the CN, or we don't want to build Command Centres in our millitary bases.

-Jam

**Kody** · August 26, 2003, 04:04

Well I would like to upgrade some of our terraformers to clean. Military shouldn't need upgrading to clean.

**Googlie** · August 26, 2003, 09:16

*imagines a horde of 80 formers, drilling boreholes and raising land like mad*

In a PBEM I was in (partnering big_canuck versus Tau Ceti and Misotu), b_c was the Hive and built some 200+ formers, In one turn he terraformed an 11-tile landbridge to TC's continent, with roads and magrails, and then took nineteen of TC's 24 bases (which were also mag-rail linked) including his HQ, leaving the other five empty of defenders. Afterwards he said he'd "miscalculated" as he'd planned to leave just one base with 1 defender (to allow TC to destroy the base thus gracefully exiting the PBEM)

He said it took him 5 hours to plan and play the turn

It was awesome, and really blindsided Tau

G.

**Kody** · August 26, 2003, 09:23

*chuckle*

My crowning terraforming achievement was aquafying the entire middle continent in the huge planet map (the one with the manifold nexus).

The hardest part was making sure I started the adjacent aquafier before I finished the next one. It took me 1 week of playing 6 hours per day moving terraformers around (admitedly because it was partly because it was the 2nd game I had ever played).

As for Civ1, I railroaded the entire map and added all the possible improvements to every square. Also I railroaded most of the sea too since it increased sea trade by 1. I like my terraforming.

**Kody** · August 26, 2003, 09:24

Oh yeah 5 hours to plan turns? Bah that's nothing to what I usually spend.

**Octavian X** · August 26, 2003, 16:06

Any other opinions RE Wealth vs. Power? I could see using wealth at the moment, simply because we aren't building military forces. However, once we begin to plan an invasion, we should switch to power...

**Vev** · August 26, 2003, 20:23

Or madly terraforming to prevent an insidious player from drowning your land. It is amazing how putty-like Chiron, not to mention amazing amount of water.

**Voltaire** · August 26, 2003, 23:53

I agree with Jamski, we should consider Power seriously in times of war. And as the Hive we may well want to exploit our military power for the purposes of this game. Peace is fine, but war can gain us considerable rewards.

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