Originally posted by Preacherman: 
 
	Quote:
	
	
		| 
			
				 not going DUC is a pretty hard gamble (meson comes to mind as the only other fast option) finding your enemy next to you and not having DUC's is bad!
			
		 | 
	
	
 Yup. This would be very bad.  But I also like to agree to play with 3 starting planets... (a bit higher starting research).  This way if the poop hit the fan I could divert my research into DUCs to catch up quickly.
Agreed- it is a gamble.