A question to marketeers

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Senethro
Rubbish, Free Market is absolutely essential for Morgan. .

I tend to agree for the reasons you cite but a Demo Green Wealth Morgan can rock in the mid to late game. I tend to find the advantages of high efficiency can sometimes lead to better energy production than FM and the added ability to garner a few mindworms, have reduced ecological problems etc is not to be scoffed at.

BUt early game-- FM all the way

[Kataphraktoi]

Originally posted by Senethro

I've not found a way to make Uni ICS expansion go so smoothly, but then I've always had a blind spot for how to play the Uni.

VW
Then again, i dont ICS until satelites so dunno


Ive never really seen the morgan ICS done well. In vets9 the morgan had PTS+empath guild+HGP and some other stuff, and as drones i only had PEG, but blew him away on everything including tech, pop,industry,etc via popboom. It looks good on paper anyway.

[CEO Aaron]

How well the Morgan Boom is going depends on when in the timescale you take the snapshot. The real power of Morgan is that he can produce more resources, mainly by virtue of energy production and infrastructure, with less population. In fact, a faction that enjoyed the Morganite Advantages without the population caps would be distinctly broken.

Also, it's not very elucidating to take a single game out of context, as the factions are well-balanced enough that map position will make far more difference than factional balance.

As to T-Hawk's claim about Market being less essential to Morgan than to factions like the University and PKs, that depends greatly on when you're looking. You'll find that very early in the game, the extra base square energy provided by market will dwarf the +1 per tile bonus you get at +2 econ. Later on, when you start harvesting more squares, it can become less relevant, and other SE settings can start to recommend themselves. However, a truly well-played Morganite will pack their bases very, very tightly, since the hab caps serve to curtail base sizes for a very long time, and therefore Morgan must make up for depth in his population with breadth.

While I tend to view Morgan and Yang as ideological opposites, where Yang exalts the collective over the individual, and Morgan does the converse, strategically, they both tend to operate similarly. Lots of little bases pepper their landscape, to leverage their production advantages over their neighbors.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by T-hawk

Morgan's real strength is getting the +2 economy bonus with only Wealth, thus not having to suffer the drastic police and planet drawbacks of Free Market. In fact, Green economy is often Morgan's best overall choice; the Efficiency bonus works nicely with the +2 economy.

2 points. One already commented on. Pre- energy restirction the extra base square energyis huge considering the vast amount of base sqaures to worked square ratio should be extremely high for Morgie in comparison to other factions that can grow more easily vertically. FM is a big advantage in the pre restriction lifiting days for bases of size 1-3.

2nd point if you play Morige the trade wimp or on the other hand play Morgie the conqueror forcing submissives. Its trade. And the extra econ is so very sweet from FM. Granted the efficeincy of Demo/green is prolly the best all around as it allows penalty free allocations but FM is not so bad.

[Kataphraktoi]

Originally posted by CEO Aaron
How well the Morgan Boom is going depends on when in the timescale you take the snapshot. The real power of Morgan is that he can produce more resources, mainly by virtue of energy production and infrastructure, with less population. In fact, a faction that enjoyed the Morganite Advantages without the population caps would be distinctly broken.

Also, it's not very elucidating to take a single game out of context, as the factions are well-balanced enough that map position will make far more difference than factional balance.

Of course, i never said otherwise, all i said was i hadnt seen it done well and it looks good on paper.