hybrid SS race; also, build order for first ~10 turns? |
Tue, 02 June 2009 22:08 |
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scottrick49 | | Master Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 98
Registered: August 2003 Location: Minneapolis, MN | |
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I've been playing around with a new SS race. Not exactly HP, not exactly HG. I played one testbed against 4x expert AI to 2450 and hit 17k resources with some micromanagement, but nothing too intensive. I think it could do better with more careful play and some tweaking perhaps. Let me know what you think:
Hydra
Super Stealth
IFE, ISB, OBRM, NAS
Gravity: .52g to 4.40g
Temperature: Immune
Radiation: 15mR to 47mR
17% Growth Rate (1 in 5 habitable)
1/2500
13/8/14/checked factories
10/3/15 mines
construction and weapons cheap
electronics normal
energy, propulsion, biotech expensive
box NOT checked
I think you guys are gonna tell me to drop the immunity and tell me thats best for a HP. But this isn't a HP. Its sort of a hybrid. I really like one immunity - the worlds get so big and green and easy to terraform as the game goes on.
I'm also looking for suggestions to speed up the early game. I tried dropping ISB and taking 'expensive start at 3' to help me get fuel mizer privateers earlier, but it comes one turn at most, so I didn't think that was worth it.
What do you use for a build order at the start of a game on a race like this? I was trying
autobuild 100 factories
autobuild 100 mines
and that definitely gets me the resources fast enough but I found I was hitting a hard mineral crunch when my starting minerals are used up. Its not a big deal for the germ, but when i run out of iron and I can't build enough privateers to keep my HW < 33%, it becomes a problem.
I was thinking something like:
autobuild 10 factories
autobuild 15 mines
autobuild 100 factories
autobuild 100 mines
might work well, but I haven't had a chance to testbed yet.
I read somewhere somebody suggested building a bunch of mines asap (like 100 or so). I tried this, but then I had the opposite problem of too many minerals and way less factories. Any suggestions on the opening turns?
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Re: hybrid SS race; also, build order for first ~10 turns? |
Thu, 04 June 2009 03:37 |
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iztok | | Commander | Messages: 1219
Registered: April 2003 Location: Slovenia, Europe | |
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Hi!
Quote: | But this isn't a HP. Its sort of a hybrid.
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Yep, but I'm affraid with weaknesses from HP and no strenght of HG.
Quote: | pop 1/2500
13/8/14/checked factories
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See, your ramp-up is weak, because of 1/2500 and because factories aren't strong enough to compensate for that.
Quote: | Temperature: Immune
pop 1/2500
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IMO that's not a good combo. Usually one takes immunity to breed (for free!) more pop faster, to get more resources quicker. But 1/2500 pop IMO doesn't contribute enough resources to justify the costs of an immunity.
Quote: | I was hitting a hard mineral crunch when my starting minerals are used up. Its not a big deal for the germ, but when i run out of iron and I can't build enough privateers to keep my HW < 33%, it becomes a problem.
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The trick is you stop building factories and start building mines some turns before you'll start producing PVTs. The time to build mines will depend on how much minerals you'll need to run colony drive (each turn 2-3 PVTs, 1-2 colonizers, some boosters, factories), but usualy 200-300 mines is enough.
BR, Iztok
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