Fun Hypothetical

[Frankychan]

Advanced Spaceflight or barring that Orbital Spaceflight. Dunno why, I think it's just cause I like the fact that I'm looking down at all the other faction members...

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Darsnan


Me, thats who! I'll take Quantum Machinery for my starting tech and just take those Tree Farmed bases of yours Ka Plewy, thank you very much!

Regardless, even under a hypothetical situation as livid imp has proposed, that the game offers such a complex "Rock/ Paper/ Scissors" necessity in your decision-making scheme!


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I agree on the rock paper scissors thing. On almost any choice, there is probably a couter that would be superior

The tech that lets you transcend is an obvious choice Abesent that

Well I would probably go for MMI-- A scout chopper is cheap and drop units and colony pods could mean much faster expansion and more mobile units. I would still be afraid of the guy with reactor 4 units though -- I would beeline to probe teams and pray I could probe one such unit away-- ( or steal the tech with a drop probe

[Flare]

Tree Farms or Fusion or IA. Hmmmmm... Choices, choices, choices...

[paramir]

Originally posted by Flubber
The tech that lets you transcend is an obvious choice Abesent that

No, It would take FOREVER to build

[Senethro]

I'm still saying Eudaimonia. All the techs you guys are proposing are useless on their own. Whats teh point of choppers without a gun? Or drop troops when you don't have borders with anyone and don't have crawlers to supply the extra minrows? Ditto treefarms, if you waste time building treefarms early then you're not expanding your colony and 3 maintainance is hellish expensive so you need a few pop to avoid going bankrupt.

Singularity > fusion
But even so, all that needs to happen for someone with singularity mechanics to lose the advantage is for one probe team to steal a unit. Hardly an uncommon occurance.

[WotanAnubis]

Evironmental Economics for the tree farms.

Eudaimonia for, well, eudaimonia.

Or Centauri Empathy for the Empath Guild, in my opinion one of the essential Secret Projects.

[Lazerus]

You know he asked what tech you'd want and not what facility. You'd still have to actually BUILD the tree farms and for a new base without crawlers it's way too long. Infact judging by most games people have got it so efficiently setup that by the time they get enviro eco thats the time they're ready to build the things (after fungus pops and such). So personally i wouldn't pick this tech.

Give me singularity reactors on a tiny map, go go scout army of death !!!

On a large map .. hmm .. the tech that gives you transcend specialists or perhaps the cloning vats and when you get IA cram everything into it and boom (granted not so important for factions that can boom, but for a Hiver)

[#endgame]

Eudaimonia, I think. Especially as Morgan, since I usually beeline for FM. +5 econ by turn 6, anyone?

[Ka Plewy]

[SIZE=1] or perhaps the cloning vats and when you get IA cram everything into it and boom (granted not so important for factions that can boom, but for a Hiver)

You still have to build the CV!

[livid imp]

Interesting choices as always....but why Singularity units? They'd be too expensive to produce. I don't even use them late in the game unless I'm building a particularly expensive combat unit. Fusion or even Quantam units would make more economic sense. Well, anyway, there really is only one way to find out.....play a game.

[Lord Nword]

Originally posted by Commy
You people are all stupid!!! Just choose Secrets of the Human Brain, then get Secrets of Alpha Centauri, then Secrets of Creation, then pick whatever tech you want...

Aside from that, I would have to pick Singularity Mechanics, mostly because of the cheaper reactors...a scout patrol could hold up against a impact rover...

No, your choices would all be the level one techs

[Lord Nword]

For fun, I would take the tech for grav ships... quickly followed with terraforming and i'd have a jumpstart with my terraforming abilities...

[Senethro]

Ooooh, gravship terraformers, interesting. Can they do coastal squares as well? Thats the sort of thing that might be fun to add to help boost a start in a PBEM.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Senethro
Ooooh, gravship terraformers, interesting. Can they do coastal squares as well? Thats the sort of thing that might be fun to add to help boost a start in a PBEM.

In some of my later PBEM's I've started players out with Rover Formers and several Rover CP's to boost the early game.


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[GeoModder]

Wonder if a gravship former then can raise/lower a tile both on sea and land...