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To get back on topic: when do you stop building additional formers (if you ever stop) ?
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --G.B.ShawComment
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Never stop.Comment
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Stop building formers when your going to fullscale war, or when you predict the game will end in like 15 turns.
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Or when you have enough formers for your terraforming needs. A pure forest and forget strategy isn't going to need 2000 formers.Play hangman.Comment
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Pause building formers when your support costs are high (and you don't yet have clean reactors). Build new bases instead which can support even more formers. Then continue."Cutlery confused Stalin"
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Hmmm, well I stop building formers when I have one per base. Am probably going to get shot for saying this...Comment
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I usually ICS it up in the early game and get 2 formers per base. With those formers, I spam the crawlers - which have good stuff to crawl.
With those crawlers, I get SPs that enable me to further ICS.
and so on until I spam choppers and win.
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Well I just crossed over the 300 formers mark in my current huge-techstag game as Morgan. And yes, they are all clean. Made two energy parks, one in a protected ocean, one on a mountain near the south pole. Tried a few clean-rover formers, but until fusion they are a waste of mins to produce.
A nice game after having played the industry-crippled Spartangos for a few games to see if I could 'make' them be builders.
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If you're going to make a few elaborate formers (such as rover formers) and they're expensive to start with, don't bother adding clean at all, and just upgrade them to fusion clean when the opportunity presents itself."Cutlery confused Stalin"
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I usually quit building them more or less permanently about the time I get satellites. At that point everyone is making satellites for a while and my production soars. As it does I am always getting some new great thing to build in my bases. Of course I usually have well over a hundred formers by this time, so it isn't like I don't have enough already.He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
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Stop? Building? Formers?
Well, I recently had 2 games lock up on me about the time I'd gotten to Singularity. I'd get Terran.exe error every time I did anything except move a piece (terraform, crawl, attack). Does that qualify?(\__/) Save a bunny, eat more Smurf!
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