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Hi,
(to avoid any confusion in the first place, this is about the minigame, not the real ACDG3)
I just met my first faction ever in a MP SMAC game and would like to seek some advice now. (Good it is still the ACDG minigame and not an ordinary PBEM
).
Current state of affairs:
Year 2128, just founded my 6th base (Morgan Processing), got IA two turns ago. A seventh pod will finish at Morgan Metallurgy next turn. Every base except MorInd (Def Synth Probe) is making crawlers. Cash is 0 although I'm making 25 cr/turn now so that does not hurt , Biogenetics in a few turns.
Last turn I met a seething (and jungle based!) Domai in the north, giftet him quite a few techs (CentEcol, IndEcon, PlanNet) and exchanged IA for a Treaty. (was that too much?) He went dramatically up the power chart... (Before him, I was the tech leader, thanks for the good foundation, guys
)
Planned uture strategy:
Manufacturing:
Plant the 7th base towards Domai, plant enough forests, each base gets 2 permanent crawlers on forests, continue with crawlers, insta-build the HGP, then the PTS. One probe team will infiltrate Domai ASAP, one probe team will go to the sea.
(What about rectanks somewhere in between?)
Nut heavy bases will be making pods, mineral heavy bases arount Mt Planet will be making a second former for each base and probe defenses for each base.
After that I'll drop another one or two bases on the Domai front, then expand to the west (and south) with a vengeance. The southern area will become my navy dock area (two or three coastal bases more)
Research:
Biogen, Flex, then most probably directly to restriction lifting because of Mt Planet energy abundance (although I'm not quite sure yet since Deidre AI is known for early AdapEcon & PEG building).
Diplomacy:
Domai is invited to expand a bit more to the south-east (from his view) to become a good and secure barrier between me and anyone else from the north and east.
Main question now: Would it make sense to try becoming Pact Brother to Domai (more commerce (he must have been growing like a weed in that jungle) and regularly feeding him some mediocre techs) or is a friendship sufficient because of not becoming involved in any conflict he might trigger?
Intelligence sidenote: Hercules played the last Angel turn in the minigame instead of Geo with the comment "For better or for worse:".
Thanks for any comments but not too much
(the real thing is more important)
(to avoid any confusion in the first place, this is about the minigame, not the real ACDG3)
I just met my first faction ever in a MP SMAC game and would like to seek some advice now. (Good it is still the ACDG minigame and not an ordinary PBEM
).Current state of affairs:
Year 2128, just founded my 6th base (Morgan Processing), got IA two turns ago. A seventh pod will finish at Morgan Metallurgy next turn. Every base except MorInd (Def Synth Probe) is making crawlers. Cash is 0 although I'm making 25 cr/turn now so that does not hurt
, Biogenetics in a few turns.Last turn I met a seething (and jungle based!) Domai in the north, giftet him quite a few techs (CentEcol, IndEcon, PlanNet) and exchanged IA for a Treaty. (was that too much?) He went dramatically up the power chart... (Before him, I was the tech leader, thanks for the good foundation, guys
)Planned uture strategy:
Manufacturing:
Plant the 7th base towards Domai, plant enough forests, each base gets 2 permanent crawlers on forests, continue with crawlers, insta-build the HGP, then the PTS. One probe team will infiltrate Domai ASAP, one probe team will go to the sea.
(What about rectanks somewhere in between?)
Nut heavy bases will be making pods, mineral heavy bases arount Mt Planet will be making a second former for each base and probe defenses for each base.
After that I'll drop another one or two bases on the Domai front, then expand to the west (and south) with a vengeance. The southern area will become my navy dock area (two or three coastal bases more)
Research:
Biogen, Flex, then most probably directly to restriction lifting because of Mt Planet energy abundance (although I'm not quite sure yet since Deidre AI is known for early AdapEcon & PEG building).
Diplomacy:
Domai is invited to expand a bit more to the south-east (from his view) to become a good and secure barrier between me and anyone else from the north and east.
Main question now: Would it make sense to try becoming Pact Brother to Domai (more commerce (he must have been growing like a weed in that jungle) and regularly feeding him some mediocre techs) or is a friendship sufficient because of not becoming involved in any conflict he might trigger?
Intelligence sidenote: Hercules played the last Angel turn in the minigame instead of Geo with the comment "For better or for worse:".
Thanks for any comments but not too much
(the real thing is more important)
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