16-05-2001 01:13									#1
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How do you bulid a pure energy producing city???? i wanna know your ideas on the subject????

	16-05-2001 05:44									#2
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I think the crux of the matter is that specialists avoid loss due to efficency, and often produce more as a specialist than a worker working a square. Some exceptions would be a borehole, or an energy park type square.

What this leaves you with is a base that can crawler in energy (preferable from the sea in SMACX) and food to support a substantial amount of the citizens to become specialists. On top of the crawled energy you could try to become pacted with several other factions (or have submissives) and have a high ecomony rating in order to boost the energy from trade, which can be quite substantial. In order to keep the energy your netting you might also consider moving your headquarters to that base because the headquarters is immune to inefficency. And, of course, when the tech comes from energy satellities, build them for a faction wide boost.

You should also ask yourself if it's money you want or tech points and then adjust your specialist accordingly. You might also consider this when your building your base facilities.

	18-05-2001 09:04									#3
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In addition, it's worth bearing in mind that crawlered energy does not impact your commerce income. If you have a number of pacts/treaties, a worker can often be more valuable than a specialist.

	18-05-2001 19:30									#5
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tyler666, there's a great treatment of the question of using crawlers for the Bigtime Energy Base in the recent thread "Other Ways to Climb the Tech Tree" (check it out here).

[spoo, typo corrected]
[This message has been edited by Earwicker (edited May 21, 2001).]