I admit, I'm a sprawler

[Mongoose]

Goodness! Why would you ever want to do that? Tedium to the max!!

[Guynemer]

It's okay, Anuk. The first step is admitting you have a problem.

[spartak]

Originally posted by Mongoose
Goodness! Why would you ever want to do that? Tedium to the max!!

[Flubber]

ICS is very effective but I would just get bored having the number of bases that continuing the strat would involve

[Kaptain Ken]

When the micromanagement becomes greater than the fun, its time to end it.

[CEO Aaron]

Well, I'm of the opinion that I'd rather finish the game 100 turns earlier than save myself some micromanagement, so I'm pretty aggressive when it comes to plunking down bases. The main reason I like to do it so much is my penchant for running Free Market throughout the game. Each new base I build is one more tree farm, which generates one more Eco-Free mineral per base. If you're going to be borehole farming, you need to have your free mineral limit fairly well uncapped.

[Kaptain Ken]

CEO Aaron is right, but some of us stop even as builders, as it can become too much work as you add captured cities as well. At some point you have enough clean minerals to do what ever you want.

[Lazerus]

Great when you've got loadsa mines and boreholes and with all the mineral bonus facilities you can pass like 400-500 and just build anything you want in a turn, trying to take out an entire AI continent of 20 big bases with just 5 units