Losing massive quantities of research points ...

[Basil]

I didn't know anything about this subject before reading this thread. But if the statements in this thread are correct, and they sound right, then the position of your superbase in your base queue won't matter.

If you are in a situation where you are researching a tech a turn (that is, your research points/turn are greater than your tech cost), and any of your bases produce more research than
[faction research - research cost per tech]
then the base that completes the tech each turn will change until it gets to the "superbase", and once it gets to the "superbase" it will stick there, and of course when it's on the "superbase" you will be wasting all the research/turn you are making that's in excess of the cost per tech.

This would only be worth noticing if your faction is producing a lot more research/turn than it needs for the tech.

[Misotu]

You're right - it won't make a difference. But if your superbase is the first base in the queue, it is a lot easier and less time-consuming to do the maths and get the tweaking right.

Think about it - rush build an improvement. Or even change a few specialists in one city somewhere. Then you have to think, is this improvement/specialist in a city before or after my SSC in the upkeep list? If it's before, then you're going to have to go back, redo the maths and then do even more tweaking to avoid waste.

Tedious.

Very tedious.

[VoodooChild]

With the steps I have outlined, it wont matter a bit since you should be checking your research status every turn. There is no math, just some annoying back and forth between menus.

Like anything else in this game, you can micro manage your research to death. If you are looking for that perfect game then do make things easier by making your first base the SSC.

[Misotu]

quote: Originally posted by Basil on 10-31-2000 03:20 AM This would only be worth noticing if your faction is producing a lot more research/turn than it needs for the tech.

Quite.

My situation exactly. It's not called micro-management when you're talking thousands of RPs over just a few turns - it's called turn advantage and paying attention to it works.