Possibly New Planet Cult Strategy

[MattyBoy]

JS.
I gave this a try last night and it certainly works pretty well. I also find it makes for an enjoyable start as so much is going on at once. I spread wide and had plenty of inefficiency drones, hence many holo theatres and eventually was struggling to get beyond 0 energy input for a time. (I don't use fully-guided research, so boom came late).

But meanwhile the booming was progressing nicely and once I switched to more sane settings I found myself in a much better position than I had expected.

I need to refine my use of condensors, obviously, but I found that Weather Paradigm is a great fit for Cult, as joining land masses together is very handy for the wandering worms.

Thanks for opening up an enjoyable and effective strategy.

[JustinSane]

Thanks for trying it; I'm glad you have enjoyed using it. Has anyone else given it a shot?

[timotheus4]

I don't have SMAX but I have played a good momentum game as Deidre. Switch to green ASAP and build base near MN gets you a 40% bonus in psicombat. You can then be devastating versus morgan, miriam, and anyone running market. This strategy doesn't work once fusion power comes around.

[Darsnan]

Early game combat

Originally posted by timotheus4
I don't have SMAX but I have played a good momentum game as Deidre. Switch to green ASAP and build base near MN gets you a 40% bonus in psicombat. You can then be devastating versus morgan, miriam, and anyone running market.

This is a very good example of how strong the Gaians (and Planet Cult) can be in the early game, given the right circumstances. Who said the Greens can't be aggressive?


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[Googlie]

^^

(As I'm playing the Cult in a PBEM and want to easily find this thread!!!)

G.

[Chaunk]

Bump for the current Game of the Month challenge.

[Leonidas]

It was a thoughtful post with lots of good ideas. Best of luck

[Bingo]

The cult is my favorite faction, and I'm currently playing the Cult in a PBEM game, so this interests me alot. Thanks for the new ideas, i'll have to try them out!

What do you think of The Virtual World? I generally find it's a great tech to get because with a network node and some worms your drone problems are taken care of. Plus I generally have to build alot of network nodes anyways to cash in the AA's I get from IoD pod popping.

[SynthetGod8]

I think Cha Dawn is supposed to be gender neutral, being some kind of messiah with no mother except Planet.

[Illuminatus]

There is no neutral sex. But then again, he doesn`t age.

[Kataphraktoi]

Originally posted by Illuminatus
There is no neutral sex. But then again, he doesn`t age.

None of the faction leaders age.

No honest guys, this one is on my favourites list...just going over it again

[Senethro]

I remember this one when it was bumped in 2004.

Back in the days when I was still 4square spacing

[binTravkin]

I tried out this strategy only once, in MP.
Having best pop figures as Cult was nice..

[Sikander]

I remember a similar strategy for the Gaians, which made a run for crawlers and then used them to boost nuts by crawling fungus. This can save a lot of forming time, but loses time while you research crawlers and requires some forming for mins in order to get enough mins to build the crawlers quickly. Early pop booming is very powerful, but it really kicks you up the power ratings, which can make diplomacy difficult.

[binTravkin]

Loses time while researching crawlers?
I never thought of that time as 'lost'..