Free Market???????????

[icevic]

what is GA?

Originally posted by Ned
Icevic, If you have Demo + Children Creche + GA, most factions will pop boom. However, unless you want to pop boom, try Demo, Green, Wealth + GA. With the added efficiency of Green, the money is the same as FM due to the fact that Weath and GA add to produce a +2 economy. However, there is virtually no downside to this SE. It permits you to conduct a pod popping strategy, which is another moneymaker. The combination is unbeatable. Ned

Wait, what about the morale penalty with wealth? I still want to be able to defend my cities (including the huge chuck of territory I bite off from Yang)

sounds really good!

Vic

[Sikander]

Try a native war machine with wealth:

Icevic,

Sometimes I will build a native war machine while running wealth, as the native life forms are not effected by morale (but rather life cycle bonuses). While running Ned's suggested Demo/Green/Wealth your worms will receive a nice combat bonus on the attack from your high planet rating as well.

Another useful unit for either FM and / or Wealth are armored probe teams. Again, these guys suffer no morale penalties from wealth (though they do suffer somewhat from Knowledge) and can rove far and wide under FM. I usually build vanilla 1-1-1 probe teams to defend my bases early on from enemy probes, and these guys can be upgraded to armored variants if necessary. To build a APT from scratch costs the same as building a rover (autodesigned) probe, and they can offer quite a few advantages:

1) They will defend better than equivalent military units built under Wealth.
2) They are clean.
3) They have a powerful attack in the form of their probe ability.
4) They can be stationed anywhere you want while you run FM without creating drones.

[Ned]

Sure, Units suffer a morale penalty, which make building "trained" units imperative. However, the moral penaty "disappears" when one gets "Thought Control." With the money just as good as FM, with Green and the pod popping you can now do, Demo, Green, Wealth + GA is perferrable to FM.

BTW, With FM, you get the money without a morale penalty, however, you cannot fight an offensive war, can you?

Ned