[Aiken]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Sure, unless you're using master computers on really big bases - then it's significantly more profitable and effective.

I was comparing different sized bases...

Small Astral Base + 1B+5LS+2CQ+2RL: 7850/4675/700 + 400 research
Massive Astral Base + 1 AC + 12 RL: 38400/21000/4000 + 4800 research
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MassiveBase/SmallBase = 4.89/4.49/5.71 + x6 research. It's always (well most time) more profitable to have big freaking base than small.

And you still should consider limitation of RL's number per base: 2 massive bases filled with RLs have same research income as fully developed large scientifical planet (1 SY + 19 RC V). It's a research cheat, imho.

And cost around 10000 resources (or more) per turn to maintain, each. So that is basically changing a fully developed resource planet into a fully developed research planet... Also, it costs about the same to build a large number of smaller bases to generate the same amount of research... [/qb]

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Maintanence for hi-tech Massive Base is about 5000/2700/500 per turn (cost 38400/21000/4000 and 13% maint.). So 10000 maintanence is for 2 bases. Then, large hi-tech mining planet can generate 24700 minerals per turn (19 mineral extractors IX) => it can support 4 massive research base (9600 research). Large planet with 19 RC V can generate 9500 research per turn. Well, seems about equal
It's means that orbital research is a viable alternative to planet-based research! Now it will possible to reduce Intelligence to 50 for 2100 free RP, hmm. Do you think it worths to try?

[ August 06, 2004, 18:14: Message edited by: aiken ]