New resource facility idea.

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
I find that I usually just queue up monoliths, and rake in the dough.
If I ever need some more of one specific resource, it's either a 20 second stop at my resource converter, or a quick 20K trade deal with a random AI.

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Sure, but resource converters are another thing that I very rarely have the tech for to build until late in the game, when I don't need them anyway. Resource converters and monoliths are great. They allow you to be the absolute most efficent at generating the total amoount of resources in a large, very old empire. But if your opponent has allowed you to get to the point where you have them, he's either 1. Dead, 2. Soon to be dead., 3.The A.I., 4. Just as big as you.

I think you will find that in a typical multi-player game, if you try to build monoliths from the start, you'll be dead before you get enough Online to matter. And if you try to convert them all later, you'll be too busy to care.

Geoschmo

[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 02 September 2001).]