Is it wrong...

[Skanky Burns]

Jam, did you mind posting a screenie of such a layout, with one press of "t" to get rid of the units in the way?

[Jamski]

Well, just because I'm too lazy to install Photoshop...

B = base
o = Borehole
c = crawler on farm/cond/enricher

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The two crawlered tiles provide 12 nuts in total, with 2/3 from the base square gives 14/15 - enough for size 7. With satellites you can boost this to size 14, the Hab Complex limit, by adding another 14 nutrients (the maximum for a size 14 base, as it happens).

The Borehole provides enough minerals and some useful energy, while the main energy production comes from the huge number of these bases, all of which are filled with specialists, so there are NO problems with Drones or Efficency. Its sweet

Oh, its micromanagement hell though, and you should start by using some forests and farms in order to grow fast in the early game to plant all these dozens of bases.

-Jam

[Patashu]

You don't need photoshop to take screenshots.

[Jamski]

I need photoshop to turn BMP into JPG so I can link it into the thread though.

BMPs are more than the 5k allowed.

-Jam

[Skanky Burns]

I haven't played with enrichers before. I take it they are similar to energy parks, with the associated +1ing for each enricher next to a farm?

[Commy]

God, you guys are complicated. I must really suck. I am a very lazy and laid back person. I just build bases close together to maximize resources in natural landmarks, rivers and fertile areas, and areas with bonus resources. Sometimes I might have to cluster around two landmarks or really fertile lands, and have to deal with my empire being divided. I just want the good stuff, crowd bases on it, and fortify it. I know this is stupid, but I don't have time to deal with crawlers, so I never use them. Later in the game, I just build hybrid forests and make every square forest and magtube, then I don't have to deal with farms and enrichers and solar collectors and all that stuff. Using just forests is a lot easier and less time consuming, and it makes any place good, which allows me to expand into all the death zones, assuming they aren't colonized already.

[Trithemius]

Originally posted by Jamski
the Pathetic Virtues

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Blasphemy!

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I haven't played with enrichers before. I take it they are similar to energy parks, with the associated +1ing for each enricher next to a farm?

They act just the same as condensors as far increasing the nutrient output of the tile they inhabit, but they have no effect on moisture. IIRC condensors and enrichers add 50% to the nutrient total of the square, rounded down. So moist tiles give you one nutrient, rainy two, and farms add one. So adding a condensor on to a rainy tile with a farm (three base nutrients) give you another 1.5, which is rounded down to 1 for a total of four. Adding a soil enricher adds 2 nutrients (a bonus of half the base of four) for a total of six nutrients.

[Frankychan]

I just had a bad experience with clustering my bases so close together. (see Planet Buster for details)

I just don't like having all my bases bunched up tightly where a single PB can erase my entire faction.

That's why I do the East Coast-West Coast development.

[Dis]

yes I had a bad experience the other day. I had 2 of my earliest (and hence cities with the most SP's) 2 squares apart. One fusion Planetbuster knocked out 7 SB's including Virtual World.

I reloaded. I had good reason mind you. There seems to be a bug that only happens with the Peacekeepers. A popup will come up saying they want to speak to you, but when you click OK the diplomacy window doesn't come up, just another screen saying they want to talk to you. This went on several turns, I guess they got pissed with me ignoring them and nuked my ass, but I wasn't ignoring them on purpose- the game was just buggy.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Jamski
I need photoshop to turn BMP into JPG so I can link it into the thread though.

BMPs are more than the 5k allowed.

-Jam

I'm sure you could email the BMP attachment to somebody else to convert for you. I'd be happy to do it if you want.

Or attach it to a post and somebody could download it, convert it, then post the JPG.

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Frankychan
I just had a bad experience with clustering my bases so close together. (see Planet Buster for details)

I just don't like having all my bases bunched up tightly where a single PB can erase my entire faction.

That's why I do the East Coast-West Coast development.

This does seem to be a concern for ICSing. Anybody has a good idea to counter the PBs for ICS?

[Jamski]

ICS is the counter to PBs. Who cares if a few of my 250-300 crappy size 7 bases are destroyed?

-Jam

[Snowflake]

Ahhh. Good point.

[Ouro_827]

For the first thing, you are legally insande to have 250-300 bases... but hopefully you're lying... and a good strategy is Defense Pods, which are a very late game tech, unforunatly, or Flechette Systems... which work very good with ICS tactics, because it makes it near impossible for a PB to make its way through your cities....