Re: Galaxy - Industry

From: Tim Booth <timbooth@cce.cce.usyd.edu.au>

Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Cebra wrote:
>
> >The problem is that your planets need to produce MAT in order to be
> >able to do CAP. Depending on your situation, you could either
> >a.) produce MAT on your home planet and ship that
> >b.) procude CAP on your home planet and ship that.
>
> The second problem is shipping your CAP or MAT, once you have produced it on
> the developed world.  I'm a proponent of building big freighters. A design of
> 70 0 0 0 30 would give you a capacity of 120 and a speed of about 6 loaded -
> assuming no improvement in tech.  Adding light weapons and shields won't hurt
> performance too much.  I've seen players build 50 0 0 0 50, which has a
> capacity of 300, but the 2.5 speed loaded is a little slow for my taste.Erk... in the early-ish stages of a game, why would you spend a homeworlds worth of
production for this??

I personally think that building 50 little ships (1 0 0 0 1), which can carry 55 total,
but to up to 50 different worlds, is a better proposition... don't get me wrong, in the
mid game, if I had a world with 100 COL, CAP or MAT on it, then I might consider this...
but I haven't had a world reach those sorts of proportions, with my lotsa little ships
approach :)
>
> I'm also a proponent of researching cargo early, but that's definitely a
> minority opinion.Nope... a good thing. DRIVE, then CARGO, then WEAPONS, then SHIELD is my personal
preference... but I still haven't won a game (mind you, none of the games I'm in have
finished yet, either...)

"We come in peace, shoot to kill..."

Tim Booth

References

Galaxy - Industry
eherz@hr.house.gov
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy - Industry
rmm@maths.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R M Mantel)
Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy - Industry
cebra@ids2.idsonline.com (Jonathan Cebra)
Mon, 06 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000