How do you know when you are a newbie?

[Gryphin]

teal,
Reason 1) Ok, I'll go with that.
Reason 2) I could be wrong but I expect that most folks don't think about what is on board that Transport. They will treat it the same no matter what since it could be a juicey pop transport, a mildly dangerous mine layer, or a lone suicide troop ship out looking for a new colony for easy pickings. Keep in mind that Destroyers can be a colony ship. Once I have Light Cruiser that is the only hull I use for my colony ships.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Once I have Light Cruiser that is the only hull I use for my colony ships.

Is there any reason, any advantage to continue using Colony Ship hulls?

[teal]

Originally posted by Loser:
Is there any reason, any advantage to continue using Colony Ship hulls?

Keeping in mind that I totally suck at empire design...

In my latest game I found that only my homeworld could build a LC colony ship in 2 turns, all the rest of my worlds required 3 turns. But they could build a colony ship hull colony ship in 2 turns. But I don't think I bump up my construction rate as much as I should.

[ May 22, 2003, 13:33: Message edited by: teal ]

OK, example from my most recent King of the Hill game.

Having built three of my bright shiny new minelayer class, only then did I realise that I'd designed it without engines...

And I remember thinking, when doing the design, that they seemed to manage an impressive amount of cargo space.

[Aloofi]

In Proportions you have no choice but to use the Colony ship hull, which have a wooping 1800 Kts

More newbie things i did:

1- I built Mineral Mining Facilities in 23% mineral yield planets.
2- I wasted good mineral planets building research facilities.
3- I let my fighters run out of supplies....