Re: Galaxy-shipping materials

From: Hobbes <skraus@engr.uvic.ca>

Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Bjorn Halvor Solberg wrote:
>
> In article <Dyys91.AMo@cs.vu.nl> sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Sjoerd Schreuder) writes:
>
> > Why does one want to build ships on low-resources planets? I've always
> > used those planets to do research, while the >1 resource planets continued
> > to build (better!) ships. While building the planet, I used to ship
> > CAP & COL to those planets.
>
> As someone already mentioned, when you need many big ships it is good to
> have MAT on those huge resource-low planets.  I use to use the small
> resource-full planets to produce MAT, and have freighters move MAT to the
> resource-low planets.  That is, unless they can be used to develop other
> valuable planets.
>
> Otherwise, they are excellent candidates for producing tech.
>
> > But then again, I've never won a game (I've been close), and I retired
> > several years ago from active play.
>
> It's about 3 years since "7" finished - have you played anything since?
> (You were close then. :-)
>
> Bjorn.

I'm just curious - but when first developing planets - wouldn't it be
cheaper to ship capital over and then once developed ship materials
over?

References

Re: Galaxy-shipping materials
Sam Craig <samcraig@io.com>
Wed, 02 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Galaxy player: Any new games starting out there?
welostr2@concentric.net
Sat, 21 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Galaxy-shipping materials
Sam Craig <samcraig@io.com>
Wed, 02 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Galaxy player: Any new games starting out there?
welostr2@concentric.net
Sat, 21 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0000