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January 29th, 2002, 04:33 AM
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Re: Gas giants Good or Bad?
Gas giants don't come smaller than medium, so in a game where the starting planets are set to small, you still get a medium sized homeworld.
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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.
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January 29th, 2002, 04:48 AM
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Re: Gas giants Good or Bad?
methane should be your choice of air.
Gas are good to start with but as soon as you meet a rock race trade for it or capture the first colony ship you see.
I like the gas giants.
If you take gas make sure you take advanced storage. Huge planets will house 30 facilities. And that is a huge bonus. But you have to use this advantage early to make sure you have no resource problem and then get the 28 research planet going.
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January 29th, 2002, 10:17 AM
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Re: Gas giants Good or Bad?
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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
[QB]methane should be your choice of air.
Why ? Hydrogen is not bad also, and it is rarely taken by the other races, e.g. of TDM modpack. Has anybody examined the distribution of the different atmospheres ? Oxygen would be a bad choice I think, No Atmosphere is excluded. |
January 29th, 2002, 12:08 PM
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Re: Gas giants Good or Bad?
Yeah, I also like hydrogen with gas planets. Found quite a few breathables in the Last games I played.
PsychoTechFreak, check your Personal Messages.
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January 29th, 2002, 01:22 PM
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Re: Gas giants Good or Bad?
I have found the observation of gas giant distributions:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...&f=23&t=001768
The count of every atmosphere (except none) should be the same. But I like to take the one which is rarely taken by the others.
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January 30th, 2002, 02:24 AM
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Re: Gas giants Good or Bad?
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...@Rollo: Check PM.
Thanks for the link. PM checked, and email sent.
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January 29th, 2002, 11:48 PM
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Re: Gas giants Good or Bad?
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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Gas giant planets are both rarer and larger than normal planets- no gas giant moons, for example. In short, it places a premium on your colonies- you'll have fewer to protect, but each one you loose will hurt more.
Other than that, no huge effects.
Phoenix-D
Gas Giants are even rarer if you use the "Ancient" quadrant type for the map.
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