Natural Merchant racial tech?

Kimball · #1 August 18th, 2001, 10:32 PM

I really don't think Natural Merchants is that important. Without a space yard facility, you can build a space port in three turns. The 1000 racial points can be put to better use someplace else. 1000 points goes a long way and can more that offset the inconvenience of having to build a space port if one get destroyed.

Phoenix-D · #2 August 18th, 2001, 10:37 PM

Inconvience won't be the word you use if someone smart-bombs the only Space Port in your most important production system

Phoenix-D

Sinapus · #3 August 19th, 2001, 06:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Inconvience won't be the word you use if someone smart-bombs the only Space Port in your most important production system

Phoenix-D

That's why those of us with Advanced Storage Techniques sometimes build more than one spaceport in a system.

CW · #4 August 19th, 2001, 06:46 AM

In my opinion you got to really screw up big to get your most important production system's space port smart-bombed or blockaged. If that happens your opponent probably is so ahead of you that you have no chance anyway, with or without the space port!

Phoenix-D · #5 August 19th, 2001, 07:04 AM

Only takes one shot, similar to plague bombs. Forgot to build a sensor platform or two, he sneaks in a ship and.. boom.

Phoenix-D

Baron Munchausen · #6 August 19th, 2001, 04:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Only takes one shot, similar to plague bombs. Forgot to build a sensor platform or two, he sneaks in a ship and.. boom.

Phoenix-D

Yeah, the smart bombs actually make the planetary intelligence operations valuable. Once you know where your enemies' space ports are you can deprive them of entire systems worth of production. I wonder if the AI would know how to use a smart bomb equipped ship?

Mad_Lear · #7 August 19th, 2001, 09:30 PM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
I wonder if the AI would know how to use a smart bomb equipped ship?

I don't think so. One of the most fundamental complaints made against the AI is that it "forgets" everything that happened the Last turn, and plays each turn completely out of context of what happened in preceding turns, and what is likely to happen in future turns. So, even if an intel project tells it where a space port is, it won't "remember" where it is long enough to send a smart bomb ship to it. One of the many reasons purely information-based tech attacks should probably be ignored by the ai intel minister.