Turn 2151 maps and discussion.

[Snowflake]

This is exactly what we need. I wish we had you working like this from long ago Jamski. I'm now skimming posts but will try to paticipate more later.

Oh just one note regarding food. We got Eco Eng last turn so most formers have been working on condensors and hopefully it will help with the food situation. But I'm sure you already noticed it.

Another thing we did accept pact with CC didn't we?

[Kody]

Kody - before I forget - I've notice that in most of my games I start sea-terra-forming too late. Some bases will benefit much more from kelp+tidal than farm + condensor. I'm thinking of the Hive for instance, and HongHu KongHu. We have the tech, and I think a couple of sea-formers should be a priority. The sooner sea-forming can start the better, as tasty 3-0-3 tiles take only a few turns to do, and help both our growth and tech rate. Minerals - well we can forget sea minerals - can be supplied from forests, boreholes and crawlers, and then we save the long t-forming times for farm+condensor combinations. (4-1-1 at best)

Hive will lose it's coastal status. However, you're correct in mentioning that we could build a sea former. To tell the truth I would lean away from the sea former at the moment. The main problem with that is that all the food we have is being crawled to specialist bases. Sea supply crawlers are expensive, and we haven't used up all of our land area yet. On the flip side if we start planting kelp now it'll grow later, but the game will probably be already in the bag by then.

I'm willing to hear the counter argument if there is something I forgot to take into account.

I know that automatically placed specials don't happen side by side. So at least one of them will stay. If one was an automatically placed one it will convert into a unity pod, and we can pop it and hopefully get something nice since it's next to the hive. If we lose it and we're troubled by that, we can sink land and get the sea special back. (tested all this in the scenerio editor a long time ago)

Another thing we did accept pact with CC didn't we?

I was advised by the cycon ambassador to accept the pact, and the ambassador will sort out the problems with the strange threats we got.

[Kody]

Buster has agreed to build a missile unit in a few turns and give us the missile prototype.

We're giving buster an extra probe and loan of a transport.

[Jamski]

To tell the truth I would lean away from the sea former at the moment. The main problem with that is that all the food we have is being crawled to specialist bases. Sea supply crawlers are expensive, and we haven't used up all of our land area yet. On the flip side if we start planting kelp now it'll grow later, but the game will probably be already in the bag by then.

I'm willing to hear the counter argument if there is something I forgot to take into account.

Well, its not really a counter argument, just a suggestion. The investment needed to plant a bit of Kelp and stick in a few Tidals is very low, compared to the potential return. Like I said before, I always wish I'd terraformed the sea earlier in my games, as bases end up working sea tiles for 1 nut or something, when it could be 3 nuts + some ecs and make another specialist in the base. Just my opinion.

-Jam

[Enigma_Nova]

Yeah... speaking of maps.
I'm trying to do a current map of the factions on Chiron.
But I'll need several things:
Drone Base Co-ords
A place to upload images

With these, I can make more maps that will hopefully be useful.

[Jamski]

You can upload images on Apolyton. Click "upload", between "my threads" and "members".

-Jam

[Enigma_Nova]

The button is as broken as the Shadow forum and as useful as the Public Hive forum.

It doesn't work.

[Jamski]

Nice simile. Its working for me. Look at those pictures above in this thread.

-Jam

[Enigma_Nova]

Well it ain't working for me...

[Jamski]

Perhaps you have to registered for x months? Ask MarkG, Ming or DanQ by PM, and they'll explain it. Or start a thread in Apolyton/Community forum.

-Jam