Colonize

[Gryphin]

Greybeard, capnq
Thanks, you just saved me from disaster.
Hm, Like the others said, it ain't a dumb quesiton.
BTW: I do appriciate folks not pointing out how long I've been reading this board.
Wonder if I will ever loose my newbie edge.
Edit:
WarDad,
I have to dissagree with ommiting the Cargo hold. I tend to have my home worlds hover around 1/2 max while I build up my Breath Type Huge worlds. I take the long vew when comes to that.

[ September 13, 2002, 02:34: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

[Elowan]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
I have to dissagree with ommiting the Cargo hold. I tend to have my home worlds hover around 1/2 max while I build up my Breath Type Huge worlds. I take the long vew when comes to that.

I concur. It is foolhardy (in my view) to send out a CS to a breathable without including a cargo pod for extra pop for that needed production/pop burst.

If I get what you're saying - you've been able to reduce your HW pop from - say 4800 to 2400 - without a loss of productivity and or research?

[capnq]

It seems to me that trying to keep your homeworld maxed out is less productive than filling colonies.

If your homeworld can hold 4800M, it will still have the same +40% production bonus down to 4000M. The "extra" 800M could be getting a +5% bonus at each of eight other colonies.

Even if you're not playing a race with Advanced Storage Techniques, your choices are one homeworld with 4000M at +40%, versus one homeworld with 3000M at +30% and ten colonies at 100M and +5%.

[przy]

Thanks for all the replies gentlemen, I really appreciate it.

[Raging Deadstar]

Of course don't do what i did, creat all 3 colony designs each with the same colony module lol, or forget to put engines in lol, god i hit myself when this happened to me, IN THE SAME GAME!, Lol i'm an idiot

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
or forget to put engines in lol,

For some bizare reason, I did that often when I buildt Stellar Manipulation ships. Nothing like paying a turn of maintenance on an immobile behemoth that eats 33,000 minerals in maintenance