TDM-ModPack 2.00 BETA

[Alpha Kodiak]

Rollo:

Thanks for the compliments on the Rage. You can go ahead and post any thoughts on designs here. One thought I have had was to include a repair component on the planet creators. I took a definite minimalist aproach on the Rage stellar manipulation ships.

I need to look into the Vaxin Colonization. It seems to me like they don't expand as well as they used to.

[Daynarr]

Thanks Rollo for the insight.

Could you post savegame files; I would really like to take a look at them (to check the designs and tech progress of my races).

[Rollo]

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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
Rollo:

Thanks for the compliments on the Rage. You can go ahead and post any thoughts on designs here. One thought I have had was to include a repair component on the planet creators. I took a definite minimalist aproach on the Rage stellar manipulation ships.

I need to look into the Vaxin Colonization. It seems to me like they don't expand as well as they used to.

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Yes, repair bays was exactly my thought. At least for the create planet ships. It speeds up the conVersion of asteroid belts a little bit, as the ships only have to return to refuel. The current design has 50kt unused (that gets filled with a shield and an armor) which I would put one more solar collector and one supply storage in. I have seen in one case where the ship didn't have enough supplies. If you consider using repair bays, I think the CR hull would be good to fit extra suppies in. If you have a Quantum Reactor, a LC is big enough. Anyway, I think if you have more efficient ships you need less of them and effectively save resources (currently the Rage has 3 planet builders and another one in the queue).

I agree that the Vaxin need more colonizers.

Btw, I would consider researching Mineral Extraction3 before stellar manipulation3, so they build mining facilities instead of monoliths on mining planets. I do think it is a good idea to have the AI build monoliths on farming and refining colonies and I do that for the Vikings, too, but IMHO mining worlds should build the faster and cheaper facilities.

Rollo

[Rollo]

Daynarr,
here are all the saves from turn 10 to 120. When trying to follow what happened, please keep in mind that I have changed the construction_Vehicles on my computer for the Xi'Chung to build more colonizers around turn 75 or so.

edit: To be more specific I have changed the order, so that colonizers get built before attack ships, but didn't change the numbers.

Rollo

[This message has been edited by Rollo (edited 12 November 2001).]

[Rollo]

Sorry, no comments this time. I'll write some tomorrow. It's getting late in this part of the world...

Good night,
Rollo

[Jourin]

The Orks Research file has a typo. Repair 7 comes before Repair 3. I think the 7 should be a 2.

[capnq]

Turn 80/81:

Mi-Go (4th/3rd) - Rage, None (Rage offered TA around turn 75, and refused my counteroffer of NI); Terran, MA; Drushocka, War.
Earth Alliance (5th/4th) - Norak, War; Rage, None; Drushocka TA/War. Most of EA's construction queues shut down on turn 80 due to minerals shortage.
Norak (2nd) - EA, War; Terran, MA.
Rage (1st) - Mi-Go, None; EA, None; Terran, War.
Terran (3rd/5th) - Mi-Go, MA; Norak, MA; Rage, War. Lost 6 ships in a black hole on turn 80, with 9 more about to go in the next two turns.
Drushocka (6th) - Mi-Go, War; EA, TA/War. Once again the Drushocka go immediately from TA to War.

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Cap'n Q
My first SE IV mod! Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"