Random Thoughts, Observations, and Questions...

[Wade]

http://www.dogscoff.co.uk/neostand.htm

I'm playing stock. I have not encountered Baseships. I looked in my C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Space Empires IV Deluxe\Pictures and they are not there.

Thus, you are mistaken.

-Wade

[Phoenix-D]

That's be because they don't have their own image. They use the Starbase image:

Code:

---

Name                          := Baseship

Short Name                    := Baseship

Description                   := 

Code                          := BA

Primary Bitmap Name           := Baseship

Alternate Bitmap Name         := Starbase

Vehicle Type                  := Ship

Tonnage                       := 1500

Cost Minerals                 := 1500

Cost Organics                 := 0

Cost Radioactives             := 0

Engines Per Move              := 1

Number of Tech Req            := 1

Tech Area Req 1               := Ship Construction

Tech Level Req 1              := 9

(rest snipped)

---

check vehiclesize.txt and see for yourself, or just start a High Tech game.

[Parasite]

Baseships are tech level 9 in ship production. They are very slow and so have only specialized uses like for WP defense. Most AIs rarely build them.
The DN is then the standard big attack ship while the BS is more of a defense ship.
This assumes a lot like playing a standard game of stock, but has at least a few grains of truth in it.

[Renegade 13]

Parasite, I see the AI throwing around baseships all the time. At least, the TDM AI's do. Recently I faced a fleet of about 100 ships; 84 of them were baseships.

In stock, at max tech, Baseships aren't significantly slower than Dreadnoughts. A dreadnought can travel at speed 9, and a baseship at speed 8. The advantage of the Massive mount and an extra 500kT of space outweighs the slight speed disadvantage (in my opinion, of course).

[Phoenix-D]

Yeah, I hardly ever use Dreads. Either BCs or BBs for speed, or Baseships for firepower.

[Wade]

-----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]

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]

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]

-----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]

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