Blue Circles and Sentience
Zazazu:
Just make sure your homeworld has factories in the cities. Twice now I've noticed that my homeworld wasn't producing from the first moment and checked to find that my cities had absolutely no buildings.
Dopp:
Don't homeworlds have very low harvesting rates to force you to colonize other planets? All the spice is supposed to have been mined out during the civilization stage or something. Interesting thing is that nobody else's homeworld has this problem.
jsalemi:
Yea, the homeworld cities can lose buildings to a particularly aggressive attack. Then again, the HW only produces red spice (as far as I've seen), which isn't worth much when you get to the point that you're far enough away from the HW that you can't get back in time to stop a determined attack. You'll never lose the HW, though it could go down to 3 cities.
The HW is always the first place I put an uberturret when I can; my purple and pink spice planets are the second. That way I can wander further afield and not worry about losing them. BTW, if you have the cash, you can put more than one uberturret on any planets near aggressive neighbors who are always attacking. One keeps the attack from being successful, but two or more wipe them out before they have time to establish an orbit. :)
Faizah:
Wait, more than one? How? I thought the uber turrets were one per planet?
Zazazu:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 October 07, 15:33:26
Yea, the homeworld cities can lose buildings to a particularly aggressive attack. Then again, the HW only produces red spice (as far as I've seen), which isn't worth much when you get to the point that you're far enough away from the HW that you can't get back in time to stop a determined attack. You'll never lose the HW, though it could go down to 3 cities.
All of your colonies can. That's not really the issue. The issue is that from the moment I enter space, sometimes my homeworlds have no buildings in the cities. This is before I've left the planet and obviously before I've been attacked. It's very odd. Granted, I don't rely on my homeworld for income.
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The HW is always the first place I put an uberturret when I can; my purple and pink spice planets are the second. That way I can wander further afield and not worry about losing them.
I ignore the homeworld as far as turreting goes. I put an uberturret on my first colony as they always seem to be the ones to get hit (and usually that's a pink or blue as I search around). If I happen to go to war with an empire and was able to snag a T2, I'll uberturret it so it isn't taken while I'm taking the T3. Otherwise, I don't care.
By the time I start having pirate attacks, I don't care about red spice. With my aggressive races, I don't even actively trade. I get loads of spice when I conquer, and I sell to my own colonies if I happen to notice they are paying well. And, of course, to the nicey-nice merchants that I let live for future allies once they've grown huge.
As for aggressive neighbors, I have none. If they don't like me on sight, they die. My spice! MINE!
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