How do you know when you are a newbie?

[teal]

Originally posted by Gryphin:

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6- When you discover that transports have only half maintenance cost and then send a troop transport loaded with fighters to raid an enemy system.

Is this true? Is it true for Colony ships? If is does not apply to Colony ships then you could exploit a “feature” and build your colony ships in Transports.

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I usually put my colony ships in transport hulls for two reasons. 1) I usually like the transport picture better on the shipsets I like. and 2) If you change the name of your colony ship class often then it keeps your opponent guessing as to whether any particular ship is a colony ship or a mine laying transport... The colony ship and transport hulls cost identical amounts.

[Gryphin]

teal,
Reason 1) Ok, I'll go with that.
Reason 2) I could be wrong but I expect that most folks don't think about what is on board that Transport. They will treat it the same no matter what since it could be a juicey pop transport, a mildly dangerous mine layer, or a lone suicide troop ship out looking for a new colony for easy pickings. Keep in mind that Destroyers can be a colony ship. Once I have Light Cruiser that is the only hull I use for my colony ships.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Once I have Light Cruiser that is the only hull I use for my colony ships.

Is there any reason, any advantage to continue using Colony Ship hulls?

[teal]

Originally posted by Loser:
Is there any reason, any advantage to continue using Colony Ship hulls?

Keeping in mind that I totally suck at empire design...

In my latest game I found that only my homeworld could build a LC colony ship in 2 turns, all the rest of my worlds required 3 turns. But they could build a colony ship hull colony ship in 2 turns. But I don't think I bump up my construction rate as much as I should.

[ May 22, 2003, 13:33: Message edited by: teal ]

OK, example from my most recent King of the Hill game.

Having built three of my bright shiny new minelayer class, only then did I realise that I'd designed it without engines...

And I remember thinking, when doing the design, that they seemed to manage an impressive amount of cargo space.

[Aloofi]

In Proportions you have no choice but to use the Colony ship hull, which have a wooping 1800 Kts

More newbie things i did:

1- I built Mineral Mining Facilities in 23% mineral yield planets.
2- I wasted good mineral planets building research facilities.
3- I let my fighters run out of supplies....