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Originally posted by CW:
What's so good about this racial tech? Both of my allies chose it. It saves you a space port per system, but at the expense of 1000 racial points??
You are misunderstanding. It does not save you ONE facility slot per system. That's an insignifigant side-effect. It saves you the loss of resource/research/intel points of ENTIRE SYSTEMS when someone attacks the one planet that has the space port. In fact, it might be possible to cut off an entire system's resouces by merely blockading the planet with the space port. I haven't checked that yet. So many things to test...
Anyway, if you don't need space ports, that means your empire cannot be nearly so easily dismantled by resource denial. Land a colony ship in a remote system and you can start building resource extraction immediately. Your logistics are guaranteed. A 'normal' player on the other hand can suffer huge losses due to the destruction of a single planet, or even due to one clever attack with a "Smart Bomb" for that matter.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 18 August 2001).]
Re: Natural Merchant racial tech?
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