Spore Mods!
Li'l Brudder:
That is a good policy.
J. M. Pescado:
Going the Empire route for them tends to require that you be good at piloting a rather crappy ship, since effective war requires a minimum of at least one or two health upgrades and a minibomb.
Gus Smedstad:
Eh, the one-shot tools aren't that expensive, and the return on terraforming a good spice world is huge. If you only use one, you're adding about $90K to the cost of adding a city. The Incredi Pak costs $90K, and the factories and houses you buy are $100K-$300K, roughly, depending on which stage you're doing. So a 30% increase in cost isn't that big a deal, and putting off your initial stream of income is going to hold you back much more.
- Gus
Paperbladder:
Also, if you haven't completed the Terraforming quest yet then you can "accidentally" use the Atmospheric Generator they give you on another planet to improve it instead. Then go back to your homeworld, say that you need another one, and you'll get another one for 1,000 Sporebucks. However, if you purchase the one shots by trading then you can get Terra Wrangler faster since you can choose the tool which corresponds to how you need to Terraform the planet.
It's still cheaper than if you created colonies to get the Empire 2 badge anyway.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2008 September 21, 05:01:21
Eh, the one-shot tools aren't that expensive, and the return on terraforming a good spice world is huge. If you only use one, you're adding about $90K to the cost of adding a city. The Incredi Pak costs $90K, and the factories and houses you buy are $100K-$300K, roughly, depending on which stage you're doing. So a 30% increase in cost isn't that big a deal, and putting off your initial stream of income is going to hold you back much more.
- Gus
Some of my allies sell colony packs for $75k. However, I just gained five more planets (most T2, one T3) because one empire suddenly decided it hated me. No idea why, but whatever. I now have their base, and two of their other systems I "gave" to another empire they had always been attacking. I'm now hitting cargo limits when doing spice pick-up runs on my systems (yellow, but still).
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