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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
1) Boost Rads production.
- Less is needed early on, lots are used by phased shields & advanced engines
- I estimate that an even split between minerals & rads would be best, but races who have more shield generators than normal might need more rads
2) Insert a research priority, such that whenever Phased Energy Weapons is researched, a corresponding level in Energy Stream is researched.
(1) One approach (that I use in my races) is to modify the facilities queue to provide a more balanced queue for each planet (instead of all mineral/organic/rads). For instance, on a farm planet or construction colony, have later queue entries build rads. Another way I boost rad production is to (A) DELETE research Rad/Organic Extraction at all, (B) ADD research mineral extraction up to 3, and (C) move upresearch stellar manipulation earlier (at least to 3). This way the AI will automatically use mineral extract 3's, but everytime you "call" a rad/organic extractor it will build a monolith. This provides a balanced approach to organic/rad production and also boost minerals. To get even distributions of min/org/rad, you could simply modify this approach to DELETE any research for mineral/organic/rad extraction and move up or add researchus on stellar manip instead. Then the AI should build monoliths whenever any extraction facility is called for.
(2) This could be as easy as searching for for a queue entry of "Phased Energy Weapons" and replacing it with 2 queue entries "Phased Energy Weapons" + "Energy Stream Weapons."
Later
-Tampa