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Judging by the Tech screen, it looks pretty certain that the CyCon are going to get D:AP, and possibly MMI if they get Neural from the Uni.
We need another attack chip. Even though MMI and our industrial might will aid us it does not guarantee victory against an enemy also with MMI.
As I see it, we have a few desired destinations:
1. Fusion Power
A small window of hope when our own forces will posess strength sufficient to overpower those with fission.
2. Biomachinery
The Cloning Vats will ensure our faction rises straight to the top of the might chart, and damn well stays there
3. Orbital Spacecraft
Planetbusters are da bomb, and throwing up some sats never hurt anyone.
Fusion is also on the way to Adv. Eco Eng, Super formers, and Fusion laser, A10.
Fusion and Orbital are on the way to Adv. Spaceflight, with Power orbys and Plasma shards, not to mention the living refinery which will solve many support woes (especially after the Cloning Vats).
But powerful as these things are, we can only aim effectively for a few of them.
By virtue of Fusion and Orbitals requiring Pre-Sentient algoritms they require Knowledge, Intellectual Integrity and HEY Doctrine: Loyalty!
We can safely 'hoard' those until later.
Knowledge would be good for war, though, which I advocate.
BioMachinery should be high on our list of priorities, as it has The Cloning Vats, and we retain a small 'jump start' on anyone trying to go knowledge.
Biomachinery
Here are the techs we need:
Retroviral Engineering
Adv. Military Algorithms
Adaptive Doctrine || Optical Computers
Polymorphic Software
BioMach is 6 techs down the track, and the drones can only help us with a leapfrog at one point.
This will get us the all-powerful Cloning Vats, Land Artillery, Genejack Factories (yay) and Power.
Pulse 3 armor ain't bad...
Note that with Cloning Vats, Power becomes a possibility for a wartime stance, as the negative effects are eliminated.
Orbital Spacecraft
DA BOMB (busters) would be our reason for walking this path, though skyfarms are powerful pieces of kit.
We would need the following techs:
Pre-Sentient Algorithms
Cyberethics || Advanced military Algorithms
Intellectual Integrity |||| Optical computers || Adaptive Doctrine
NIL |||| Polymorphic software
Plenty of opportunity to leapfrog, right until the end.
This nets us Knowledge, Artie, Police, Pulse 3 armor, and most importantly...
DA BOMB! (Busters)
It's 8 techs away, so a little further than the vats.
If we get the vats first, we already have AMA, so it is only 4 techs away.
Fusion Power
Will require everything Orbital spaceflight requires, plus Superconductor.
It is almost certain that Fusion and Orbys will be obtained in close time to one another.
It gets us engineers, Fusion labs, and the fusion reactor.
From here we can get Adv. Eco Eng, or Adv. Spaceflight.
Combine Orbitals, with Cloning Vats, with The Living Refinery, and we have ourselves a serious machine!
So where do we first go?
Biomachinery, or Orby Spaceflight, or Orby+Fusion (and onto the choice techs like Adv. Spaceflight and Adv. Eco Eng)
Do we want the vats first, or that other stuff?
I'd go straight to the vats. Less tech in the beeline, and as no-one else has DocLoy we can 'hoard' the second beeline for a little while.
We need another attack chip. Even though MMI and our industrial might will aid us it does not guarantee victory against an enemy also with MMI.
As I see it, we have a few desired destinations:
1. Fusion Power
A small window of hope when our own forces will posess strength sufficient to overpower those with fission.
2. Biomachinery
The Cloning Vats will ensure our faction rises straight to the top of the might chart, and damn well stays there
3. Orbital Spacecraft
Planetbusters are da bomb, and throwing up some sats never hurt anyone.
Fusion is also on the way to Adv. Eco Eng, Super formers, and Fusion laser, A10.
Fusion and Orbital are on the way to Adv. Spaceflight, with Power orbys and Plasma shards, not to mention the living refinery which will solve many support woes (especially after the Cloning Vats).
But powerful as these things are, we can only aim effectively for a few of them.
By virtue of Fusion and Orbitals requiring Pre-Sentient algoritms they require Knowledge, Intellectual Integrity and HEY Doctrine: Loyalty!
We can safely 'hoard' those until later.
Knowledge would be good for war, though, which I advocate.
BioMachinery should be high on our list of priorities, as it has The Cloning Vats, and we retain a small 'jump start' on anyone trying to go knowledge.
Biomachinery
Here are the techs we need:
Retroviral Engineering
Adv. Military Algorithms
Adaptive Doctrine || Optical Computers
Polymorphic Software
BioMach is 6 techs down the track, and the drones can only help us with a leapfrog at one point.
This will get us the all-powerful Cloning Vats, Land Artillery, Genejack Factories (yay) and Power.
Pulse 3 armor ain't bad...
Note that with Cloning Vats, Power becomes a possibility for a wartime stance, as the negative effects are eliminated.
Orbital Spacecraft
DA BOMB (busters) would be our reason for walking this path, though skyfarms are powerful pieces of kit.
We would need the following techs:
Pre-Sentient Algorithms
Cyberethics || Advanced military Algorithms
Intellectual Integrity |||| Optical computers || Adaptive Doctrine
NIL |||| Polymorphic software
Plenty of opportunity to leapfrog, right until the end.
This nets us Knowledge, Artie, Police, Pulse 3 armor, and most importantly...
DA BOMB! (Busters)
It's 8 techs away, so a little further than the vats.
If we get the vats first, we already have AMA, so it is only 4 techs away.
Fusion Power
Will require everything Orbital spaceflight requires, plus Superconductor.
It is almost certain that Fusion and Orbys will be obtained in close time to one another.
It gets us engineers, Fusion labs, and the fusion reactor.
From here we can get Adv. Eco Eng, or Adv. Spaceflight.
Combine Orbitals, with Cloning Vats, with The Living Refinery, and we have ourselves a serious machine!
So where do we first go?
Biomachinery, or Orby Spaceflight, or Orby+Fusion (and onto the choice techs like Adv. Spaceflight and Adv. Eco Eng)
Do we want the vats first, or that other stuff?
I'd go straight to the vats. Less tech in the beeline, and as no-one else has DocLoy we can 'hoard' the second beeline for a little while.
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