[Tomgs]

Drake I did it the way you said for the tournament but normally I don't bother with monilith facilities because I don't usually use an organic race so my consumption of anything other than minerals is very low. It gets me more minerals to build mineral miner III's so I go that way until I can research the resource converter at least. I very rarely run out of minerals before I have conquered the galaxy. But after the patch I might have a few longer games and need the extra minerals.

Also I have shipyards on 99% of my planets in a normal game so mineral miners III only take one turn to build normally. Once I research level III facilities a shipyard is the first thing I build on the planet. The 5 turns it takes to build are paid for after building the first 5 facilities then no upgrades are needed.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 09 February 2001).]