Playing a pure uncheated style ?

[SativaX]

Store tforming is pure nonsense then haha. Both logically and in terms of fair play. I shall not use that one for sure.

Well thanks for the insight , i guess ill try my hand at librarian now.


I used crawlers for a single thing up to now and it was to boost SP , but i did it in a major way , every time a new SP was available ALL my bases threw at least one if not two crawlers.

I never used them to work squares as with university up to now i can manage to keep my bases productive enough with the workers themselves at least long enough to get sky labs.

I am interested in knowing a bit more about "upgrading" crawlers however. Would addind some armor to them speed up my SP even more ?

[Lazerus]

Crawlers can be upgraded fairly cheaply, so it would cost like 100ec to get 50 extra minerals worth on your crawler which can be cashed into the SP. However if you had just pumped this money into the SP you would only get say 25 minerals.
I hardly ever have the money to bother with this but still im pretty sure thats how it is.
Oh and its considered cheating in MP games so keep it to SP at most

[Chaos Theory]

Normal crawlers can be cashed for their full mineral value (3 mineral rows) but if you upgrade them first you can effectively buy extra minerals at less than the 4 energy/mineral you would have to pay to rush the secret project directly. For example:

At +1 industry rating, a crawler is worth 27 minerals.

Upgrading that crawler to a 0-2-1 costs 60 energy, and increases its value to 45 minerals. You paid 60 energy for 18 minerals, instead of the 72 it would normally cost

Upgrading the 0-1-1 to a 0-2t-1 costs 90 energy, and increases its value to 72 minerals. You paid 90 energy for 45 minerals, half the normal cost. After fusion, this gets really sick.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by SativaX

I never used them to work squares as with university up to now i can manage to keep my bases productive enough with the workers themselves at least long enough to get sky labs.

BUt crawlers can make your bases even more productive. Don't waste a citizen working a mine for instance-- instead crawl the minerals and make a specialist-- more drone control and more research-

You can win on any level without crawlers BUT I think everyone agrees that good use of crawlers can really strnegthen your play

[Minute Mirage]

Originally posted by Lazerus
Oh and its considered cheating in MP games so keep it to SP at most

Not in the standard 'Poly rules or in any of the 8 or so PBEMs I'm in.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Lazerus

Oh and its considered cheating in MP games so keep it to SP at most

I have probably 20 MP games under my belt and I have never seen this listed as a cheat-- IN fact, seeing Projects built in a single turn is the norm and not the exception

[Barinthus]

Hmmm, like I said earlier somewhere else, to each their own.

So if you like to use this method, that's fine with me. I'm just curious as of to your thoughts.

Wouldn't using crawlers to help speed up special projects be considered twinkish? From roleplaying persecptive anyway.

I can't imagine that's what designers had in mind. But again what do I know?

[Lazerus]

well in a few games ive been in its banned along with the likes of the stockpile bug, and thats usually refered to as cheating, just preferences then.