How much eco damage do you allow?

[livid imp]

After the first fungal pop to open up clean mineral limits, how much eco damage to you allow in a typical city?

[anarchie]

Cut planet and it will bleed energy credits.

[Chaos Theory]

The more ecodamage, the faster my ecodamage limit rises, the faster the seas rise and drown my enemies, and the faster worms throw themselves at me.

In TCP/IP multiplayer, since worms pop and attack in the same turn, I actually fear worms and will keep ecodamage low or at least carefully defend myself.

[Santiago_Claus]

Jamski is the green god. All the rest of you are just Rat-Terrier wannabes who could scarcely pollute a fire hydrant.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105573

[Maniac]

I allow as many eco-damage as my worm busting troops can bear.

[Jamski]

Jamski is the green god. All the rest of you are just Rat-Terrier wannabes who could scarcely pollute a fire hydrant.

Like the man says

-Jam

[Zeiter]

I don't like to push it too much past 100, because then you start to get locusts, which are a real pain, and don't generate the $$$ that mind worms do because you can't kill the entire stack with just one attack. But ecodamage around 50-75 is just fine by me. Sometimes you can generate more cash running green and zapping mind worms than running FM and not being able to attack mind worms effectively. You don't get as good research with green, but it is a viable alternative in the late game when you have hordes of mind worms to deal with.

[Snowflake]

Mine is normally under 30 I think.

[gwillybj]

I don't monitor it -- should I?

[Nubclear]

No

[Dis]

0 if possible.

I voted for under 30. Because at a certain point it is impossible to keep it under 10 even under green.

[binTravkin]

Im usually under 10 because it prevents any further worm pops.
Why dont I use worms for credits?

1.At the coast often there are locusts and isles which are too hard to kill.
2.Often there are things to build in my queue which are much more profitable than another empath rover or somesuch..
3.At late game though I have not much to build and then I can pop those worms..

[Dis]

I just hate messing up my beautiful terraforming.

maybe I should have voted for under 10. For most of the game I can keep it under that amount. It's only when you build those late game mineral boosting facilities and SP's that damage build up.

[Mr. President]

Like Dissident I don't like eco-damage because it plays havoc with terraforming. And I don't like moving lots of units out just to destroy eighteen thousand mind worm boils.

[Archaic]

Eco-damage all the way. While it's rare for mine to get to excessive levels unless I've waited too long to build the Tree Farms after that vital first pop, I really couldn't care less how high it goes. By the time it might really wreck terraforming or cause seas to rise overly much, I'm already able to propose Solar Sails, and the only terraforming that really matters (Boreholes) aren't eliminated by Fungus Pops anyway.

I find though that Fungus Pops that produce Fungal Towers are more annoying than the Locasts however. Simply for the fact that they like to pop up under my crawlers, and can force me to kill one of my own units. A real pain when you needed that crawler to rush a project.