Ministers - which are the safe bets?

Alneyan · #1 May 26th, 2006, 05:07 PM

I do agree about the other breathers; in this case, you shouldn't be trusting any minister to get the job done, and you just need those extra facilities.

As for quantity, other breathers are also not going to reach high numbers anytime soon, unless you are lucky to find a player with billions of undefended breathers... I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

Fyron · #2 May 26th, 2006, 05:53 PM

Or you have organic manipulation trait. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Envy.gif[/img]

Noble713 · #3 May 26th, 2006, 06:45 PM

The colonization minister isn't TOO bad. Usually by the time I turn it on, I'm bringing in so many resources that it doesn't really matter what I colonize. Rather than spend inordinate amounts of time scouring the galaxy looking for good planets, I just flick on the AI for colony ships, and try to make the best of whatever planets it colonizes. It's still incompetent (colonizing small, resource-poor worlds with the wrong atmosphere, even though huge, resource-rich worlds with the right atmosphere are just 1-2 systems farther away) but so much easier than manually directing 2-5 colony ships somewhere every turn.

Suicide Junkie · #4 May 26th, 2006, 07:44 PM

Indeed.
You're gonna colonize everything anyways, so might as let the minister work out the fine details and make sure nothing is missed.

You can always divert a colony ship to those big breathables manually, and let the minister "fill in" your secured territory.

Dizzy · #5 May 26th, 2006, 08:24 PM

I have lots of methane, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen planets and 4 races I've assimilated/captured. Are these minister population transports gonna transport the right races to the right planets?

Slick · #6 May 26th, 2006, 08:50 PM

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Dizzy said:
I have lots of methane, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen planets and 4 races I've assimilated/captured. Are these minister population transports gonna transport the right races to the right planets?

Not only no, but he will transport non-breathers to your undomed planets so that they will become domed. Don't use the population transport minister once you have more than one kind of breathing population.

Dizzy · #7 May 26th, 2006, 09:05 PM

Ahhh, Slick, cool, what I needed to know, ty.

So what other ministers could I use to cut down on micro management? Which ones are the best to use?