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Re: Small Transports vs. Colony Ships
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I never thought of that. Does the AI fall for it?
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Re: Small Transports vs. Colony Ships
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oh come on geo, that one is pretty well known, you just need to watch georgig in his games, dozens or hundreds of transports go around. if you overdo it (like he) it looses the strategical value and even then it does not matter most of the time.
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Yes, Georgig loves this one. But I disagree overdoing it is any sort of problem. You can never know at any point if the ship is a colony ship, mine layer, carrier, or some kind of armed transport. Makes pouncing on single ships quite a nail biter. 
The only real problem to it is the limit on engines. But if you have the propulsion bonuis it can offset that of course.
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April 24th, 2003, 02:59 AM
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Re: Small Transports vs. Colony Ships
The AI doesnt fall for it, it'll attack anything you own if you're at war with it.
And its the maintence cost thats the difference in unmodded SEIV, as Suicide pointed out.
In unmodded games however, it is useful to use a big transport to colonize with, since you can jam more pop in them and also a couple of WPs.
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Re: Small Transports vs. Colony Ships
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And its the maintence cost thats the difference in unmodded SEIV, as Suicide pointed out.
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Re: Small Transports vs. Colony Ships
there was one stars! story about a guy who named all his ships things like --.-__-.- so no-one but him would be able to tell them apart. as the game story goes, the other players wiped him out.
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Re: Small Transports vs. Colony Ships
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No, there is no maintenance bonus or penalty for either ship in unmodded se4. SJ was saying how he changed them in P&N mod to have a difference.
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Re: Small Transports vs. Colony Ships
Not a bad idea...
If there is cargo (ie weapon plat's) and the ship is set to colonize is the cargo automatically dropped? I assume so, just curious though.
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