Random Thoughts, Observations, and Questions...

Wade · #1 July 31st, 2006, 12:21 AM

-----Request for Game Play Advice: Should Monolith Facilities obsolete regular facilities or are the regular facilities still good for cheap specialization? I'm thinking that this is the right idea.

If, on a planet, I have one high resource value and the other two are low then should I specialize that facility but still build some monoliths as well?

Suicide Junkie · #2 July 31st, 2006, 12:28 AM

You should build the regular facilities first, since you can do them in one turn each.

Then replace them gradually with monoliths, since the monoliths take a while to build.

Wade · #3 July 31st, 2006, 12:37 AM

Thanks. I had that in mind too but are all those steps neccesary ecspecially if my empire is rich?

A "regular" Facility 2 is taking .1 year. A Monolith Facility 1 is taking only .5 years.

Wade · #4 July 31st, 2006, 01:37 AM

-----With the sudden influx of new players that Space Empires V will bring I think that 'Strategy First Forums', being the official site and where they'll go, might become our "hangout" more so than Shrapnel Community.Com.

If only 'Strategy First Forums' could set theirs up like this one with number of views, last poster, have the standard setting begin with "show all topics", etc.

Kana · #5 July 31st, 2006, 03:17 AM

Yes they need to revamp their forums...Of course...I'm sure we can still hangout here, and of course SE.net

capnq · #6 July 31st, 2006, 01:04 PM

The first thing Strategy First needs to do with their forums is make them easier to find. I don't remember how I got to their forums the first time I went there, but I didn't think to bookmark the forums page, and the next time I went back, I had to use Google to find the forums again.

Suicide Junkie · #7 July 31st, 2006, 09:40 PM

Oh man, I recently went there to try and find the patch, because the link on malfador.com was broken.
Thank goodness for flashblock. There were are lot of crazy hoops to jump through to get anywhere, and none of them were obvious.

Renegade 13 · #8 July 31st, 2006, 03:43 AM

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Wade said:
-----Request for Game Play Advice: Should Monolith Facilities obsolete regular facilities or are the regular facilities still good for cheap specialization? I'm thinking that this is the right idea.

If, on a planet, I have one high resource value and the other two are low then should I specialize that facility but still build some monoliths as well?

Usually in games I play, I only ever get the chance to fully use Monoliths if I'm playing against the AI (don't last long enough against human players

)

What I do, is once I have fully developed my empire and have a few well defended chokepoints, I slowly scrap all my 'traditional' facilities and start replacing them with Monoliths. Simultaneously with this, I smack Atmospheric Converters on the planets that need them. After all, by scrapping the min. miners, org and rad facilities, I have space for the converters. Then, after the converters have done their thing, I slap a few of the facilities that add planet value by 3% per year (should remember the name, can't at the moment) so that the Monoliths that I'm building have more and more to work with the whole time, and my economy will be increasing steadily even if I don't physically expand my empire into any more systems. Once that's all done in my entire empire, I start building sphereworlds and methodically wiping out the AI's, who are usually ahead of my by now in score and number of ships, but who can't penetrate my warp point defenses (though the Aquilaeians came close in my current game, they threw over 100 ships at me, 84 of them baseships...).