07-04-2004 14:51									#61
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Cash is more flexible and its easier to boost energy with facilities than minerals, athough its hard to buy minerals for less than 2ecs/mineral, so you could argue minerals are twice as valuable - its more complicated to buy energy with minerals though. Stockpile is hardly the best way to rake the cash back.

-Jam

	07-04-2004 15:06									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski athough its hard to buy minerals for less than 2ecs/mineral, so you could argue minerals are twice as valuable

Aha. It is just that I have heard "energy parks" mentioned a lot, and not "mineral parks".

	07-04-2004 19:25									#63
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There's no mineral parks captain. The highest payout of mineral if I'm correct would be a borehole on a mineral bonus. But you can't build boreholes together (thus no parks).

	07-04-2004 20:17									#64
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The closest thing to a mineral park I've done is 8 mine/road/rocky tiles around the top of Mount Planet crawled for 5 minerals each! Wow!

-Jam

	07-04-2004 21:35									#65
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I suppose you could do boreholes tight as possible (checkered pattern?) and terraform remaining tiles into rocky then mine and road them.

I don't know if that's possible alto, I rarely terraform that way.

Even if it's possible, I'm highly doubtful that it's worth the time and resources diverted away other aspects of the game.

One quick question - I rarely use boreholes myself, it's one of things I need to start to practice doing. I'm such a carebear - I avoid ecodamage as much I can . Anyway altitude factor in how much energy you can get from a tile is still in effect with a borehole?

	08-04-2004 00:26									#66
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No. Borehole energy is not related to altitude.

-Jam

	08-04-2004 04:28									#67
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Upgrade costs consider special abilities only so far as they alter the cost of the new unit. Special abilities on the old unit do not affect the cost AT ALL. However, some special abilities cannot be added when upgrading, particularly heavy artillery.

	08-04-2004 04:46									#68
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski No. Borehole energy is not related to altitude. -Jam

So on a boreholed tile, there is only energy from the borehole or is it borehole energy plus altitude energy?

Just for the sake of clarification.

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quote: Originally posted by DataAeolus So on a boreholed tile, there is only energy from the borehole or is it borehole energy plus altitude energy? Just for the sake of clarification.

The energy from a borehole is not affected by the altitude.

	08-04-2004 08:14									#70
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I'm asking about the total energy output of that particular tile which happens to have a borehole.

	08-04-2004 08:24									#71
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Altitude only affects tiles with solar collectors in them.

	08-04-2004 09:39									#72
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Ah, duh me, of course. Thanks.

	08-04-2004 11:00									#73
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I like solar collectors though.

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	08-04-2004 11:01									#74
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This is my current 4-city empire.

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	08-04-2004 12:49									#75
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns I like solar collectors though.

That's a lot of mirror. Watch out for hailstorms.

*Trithemius fires up his "Evil Weather Machine"*

	08-04-2004 13:05									#76
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*Patashu fires up his Anti-Evil Weather Machine Machine*

	08-04-2004 13:43									#77
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quote: Originally posted by Patashu *Patashu fires up his Anti-Evil Weather Machine Machine*

Hey! Can't you see I am trying to rain on someone's parade!

Damn do-gooders!

	08-04-2004 13:53									#78
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quote: Originally posted by Trithemius Hey! Can't you see I am trying to rain on someone's parade!

Yup, that's why I turned the machine on the first place.

	08-04-2004 14:08									#79
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quote: Originally posted by DataAeolus terraform remaining tiles into rocky then mine and road them.

Can you terraform tiles to make them more rocky? Or can you just level them to make them less rocky?

	08-04-2004 14:10									#80
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You can only level them. Putting a rockifying option into the game would be too powerful, due to being able to add 1 mineral to all previously flat tiles for no disadvantage.

	08-04-2004 18:50									#81
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I play with random events off, have done so ever since my capital and all its wonders were destroyed in a game I played many years ago.

	08-04-2004 20:21									#82
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* Jamski is not impressed with Skanky's slow tech rate for MY 2265

-Jam

	08-04-2004 21:18									#83
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Large map, tech stagnation on.
Still using 50/50 split econ/labs.

Alas, that game has corrupted though.

	08-04-2004 22:06									#84
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Ah, Tech Stagnation is always a good excuse

-Jam

	08-04-2004 23:37									#85
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You can sometimes increase the rockiness of tiles by raising or lowering land.

	08-04-2004 23:46									#86
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That's true. I once raised land with the result of a nearby square with farm and condensors became rocky. But it happens randomly I think.

	09-04-2004 07:04									#87
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Tech stagnation leads to longer games, hence is good.