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Tommar
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Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
The informational content has been posted in link form in Vel's compendium and my primer.
Realistically the arguements to advance planned over FM depends greatly on proximity to nearest neighbor/threat. In a no threatening arrangement FM beats the pants off planned in the early game.
Early game = Pre restriction lifting
Reason is that it allows so much energy from the base squares (you need to ICs to take full advantage) that you power through the early tech at a rate that would take you decades longer in planned. The lack of populational power is a mere few turns as a Demo/planned/creche boom or Demo/creche/golden age boom later on.
Seriously the elder statesman of this board have long thought this through and proven it 19 ways to Sunday. Sorry not trying to be condescending here but it is almost a given, save the rarities wherein a player garners scads of AA to offset the technological gap a FM player otherwise would generate, that a properly run FM early game transitioning into a period of Planned for pop boom purposes and then an extended run of green (as mid to late game green outperforms FM in raw energy output and flexibility to slam it all to econ or labs).
But what would I know? I haven't played in about 9 months. Maybe I need to install it on my laptop for my next business trip. |
Posting "I KNOW!" without explanation, or providing links is a waste of space (not referring to you, but the one you appear to be defending.)
If you've read my previous posts, you will find that I'm a Free Marketeer trying to explain why to people who haven't played this game for 5+ years. Perhaps failing miserably at it, but at least I'm trying to explain it to them, rather than simply saying "I KNOW!" and being condescending about it.
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Tommar
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Originally posted by cal_01
Sorry. http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...637#post3905637 and the reference to the standing army.
Well, I guess I'm more of a half-builder than a full-out builder. To tell you the truth, I'm probably more of a hybrid player than anything else, but my strategies/play-style hover closer to builder. And I tend to move out once I get the Particle Impactor and Mobility. 
And yeah, I've beaten transcend before, but the AI gets kind of twinky in that difficulty so I don't like playing in it too much. But then again, the AI tends to lag in tech no matter which faction it is so... 
If I were to further summarize my playstyle it would be:
a) Build up facilities moderately (quasi-ICS, forests for early minerals, and get up to base limit... and one SP if possible, most of the time no), and check up on nearest factions.
b) Get to Particle Impactor/Mobility. Check the nearest factions and see if I can wage a war with my strongest neighbour.
c) If yes, build army and wipe out enemy. If not, wait until SFF and Missile Launchers (6).
d) Continue builder style, and get one or two critical SPs. (For some reason, the AI puts its SPs in the weirdest places so their production rate is so slow.  ) |
A balanced approach! That would be much more fun than min-maxing, but sadly SMAC/X provides greater rewards for min-maxing. As long as you're having fun, don't listen to the rest of us. 
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binTravkin
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Lord of Progress of the Council of Lords of Gaia
Jan 2004
time: 07:21
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Posting "I KNOW!" without explanation, or providing links is a waste of space (not referring to you, but the one you appear to be defending.)
If you've read my previous posts, you will find that I'm a Free Marketeer trying to explain why to people who haven't played this game for 5+ years. Perhaps failing miserably at it, but at least I'm trying to explain it to them, rather than simply saying "I KNOW!" and being condescending about it.
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Heh, reffering to me?!
Well, I didn't say "I know", the content of my first post clearly showed what I intended to say.
And I think you have a problem with your attitude to links, for example if you disregard this one or this and have never read them, it's only worse for you.
People here are tired of repeating the same a thousand times, so they give links to where they said that.
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Tommar
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Originally posted by binTravkin
You know if you start to get insulting people will insult you in return.
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That's cool with me. I can take the heat if I was right. Or apologize if I was wrong. Better yet would be to ignore people who are a waste of time, working on their post count, etc. but I'm still working on that one. After all, it might take some discussion to be sure of that.
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binTravkin
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Lord of Progress of the Council of Lords of Gaia
Jan 2004
time: 07:21
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yet would be to ignore people who are a waste of time, working on their post count, etc. but I'm still working on that one. |
IS this OT:
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And actually I've been in such a stage since I read all the info available at Vel's guide and SMAC Academy and tried it all out.
Advice is to do the same and not waste too much words in proving something that the expierence could later prove you as incorrect.
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Links are good, but if they were provided, I didn't see them either. |
So you probably missed one of my "spam" posts..
I even cared to provide you with a file, which you obviously didn't download.
Generally with your brush attitude to some offtopic posts and other persons themselves Poly might not be the right place for you - people here are not answering machines, they tend to break in for a joke or two or remember things related (sometimes the link seems very unclear though) to the topic.
I had provided you the only 2 links you really need and one of the best advices a SMACXer could give to another SMACXer (I know that because was adviced the same in my young days of SMACX).
What else do you want?
To continue a discussion which lacks some very important points or even states things not fully correct?
From reading the first posts here I understood that at least one of the arguers (not necessarily you) hadn't read the links I provided later so I gave advice.
Those links are very common, you can find them on most SMACX fansites, but noone obviously did, so I took my time, actually searched for a thread where those links were given and pasted them here.
Yet you even fail to notice them.
What else do you want?
To copy all of the content of links here and you'll be satisfied?
And next time you don't like anyone's advice you can ignore it, not insult the person.
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Flubber
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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:21
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Guys lets chill a bit-- no need for anyone to get worked up here-- lets all stick to content
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