Primitive Proportions

dogscoff · #1 May 7th, 2003, 04:19 PM

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Now, this does not sound fair, to the AI.

No it's not. There's nothing fair about it, but that's just the way it has to be when a bunch of semi-evolved steam tecchers squander my generosity and piss me off.

Seriously though, it might well open up a very easy conquest strategy for use against primitives:
-Gift them three or four starliners designated as "troop transports".
-Wait a turn or two for them to transfer all or most of their troops to the new ships.
-Capture the ships, use them to invade.

Hmm, I wonder if a variation on this could be used to strip normal proportions AI homeworlds of their troop defences?

JLS · #2 May 7th, 2003, 05:37 PM

In the GAME; you are truily cunning.
Dogscuff

I think, I am going to like you

But you will still have to leave the Planets Orbit, after you turn them?

Or have a fleet of yours in place, if this is the case, then why bother. Or is it just for the irony

Wait, am I being SIMU minded; again, here?

[ May 09, 2003, 03:33: Message edited by: JLS ]

dogscoff · #3 May 8th, 2003, 03:21 PM

OK, so I sent a boarding ship to the Clukruk homeworld and repossessed my troop transport. Sure enough, they had thoughtfully transferred a few hundred infantry troops onto it. Very handy.

I had a look at the facilities while I was there, and I think maybe I can see why they haven't built any ships since I gave them the galactic expansion tech- they are busy upgrading all their homeworld facilities. Half of them are Spaceport cities (VI) and the other half are labelled major city (advanced) (X). I assume they are upgrading from the former to the latter. If this is the case though, when they are finished they will lose their resupply ability.

Of course it's also possbile that they upgraded half their facilities from X to VI when I gave them resupply ability, but then when I gave them galactic expansion they started trying to upgrade to cultural centres or something stupid like that...

Anyway, I'll drop in again in 10 turns time to see how they are getting on. If they are making any progress I'll give them a chance to finish and produce a ship or two before I sweep in and conquer them. Aren't I generous? Besides, I need some time to build an invasion force to counter the 11000 troops they've assembled.

Loser · #4 May 8th, 2003, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
...Besides, I need some time to build an invasion force to counter the 11000 troops they've assembled.

Can you not destroy their troops from orbit?

Aloofi · #5 May 8th, 2003, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Besides, I need some time to build an invasion force to counter the 11000 troops they've assembled.

11000?
That's 11 million soldiers in Proportions scale of 1m population weighting 1000 kt!

dogscoff · #6 May 8th, 2003, 05:05 PM

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Can you not destroy their troops from orbit?

Well I guess I could... it's still quite early in the game though, and it might take me more than 30 combat turns to burn through the planet's shielding using torps and destroyers. Besides, I don't want to risk damage to the facilities.

but yeah, 11000 troops.

I'll have to check up on some of the other neutrals I've found, see how many they've accumulated...

Aloofi · #7 May 8th, 2003, 05:49 PM

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but yeah, 11000 troops. I'll have to check up on some of the other neutrals I've found, see how many they've accumulated...

If they are primitive, we should assume that they have a warrior society by default. They should have the capacity of recruiting far larger numbers of foot soldiers than a more technological advanced society could.
Maybe the should also have a greater reproduction rate.

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