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Tons of resources -- what to do?
« on: November 01, 2009, 11:25:06 pm »
i'm full up on metal and crystal, have 12k knowledge in the bank (with 4k more on the way), and a bunch of fairly well defended planets. My 6 raid starships are doing great for moving me around in the galaxy, so i don't need conventional forces yet. What suggestions do you have for using my resources and/or knowledge for furthering my campaign?

I have MLRS and Autocannon Minipods, and an advanced factory. I'll probably research a turret type but other than that i can't think of much to research.
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Re: Tons of resources -- what to do?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2009, 11:32:17 pm »
Well, Starships are a good way to use up a bunch of excess resources -- but they cost a lot of knowledge, too.  If you are saving your knowledge for future Mark II/III unlocks, then you might want to just hang onto that K, then.  If that's the case, to prevent your excess M/C from being wasted, a Mercenary Space Dock would be the way to go, with some mercenaries cranking out.  In the expansion, Golems will be another major way to spend a ton of M/C if you have a buffer (when you find a Golem, that is).

Though, whenever I hear about someone having so many excess resources, I immediately jump to one of the following:
A. You aren't attacking enough, and incurring enough losses in the process.
B. You are playing on a difficulty that is below your actual skill level.
C. Both of the above.

If that's how you want to play, then that's cool -- I'm not here to tell people how to play, and we have a wide variety of playstyles here.  But when you play a very turtlish conservative game (A), or when you play on a level that is too easy for you, you'll tend to amass tons of resources where normally players are hurting for that income (or have a barely-comfortable buffer at best).

Mercenary Space Docks were specifically added to the game to combat resource waste in just these sorts of situations, when building more Starships is not an option.  They are basically Mark II fighters/bombers/cruisiers, but without any ship cap whatsoever and at 10x their normal cost, so you can use an overflow to really crank out more ships if you are inclined.
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Re: Tons of resources -- what to do?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2009, 11:38:15 pm »
Cool, hadn't thought of that!

It does seem a bit easy but you know i'm 7 or 8 hours into a game and i don't want to throw that away...
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Re: Tons of resources -- what to do?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2009, 11:39:04 pm »
Cool, hadn't thought of that!

It does seem a bit easy but you know i'm 7 or 8 hours into a game and i don't want to throw that away...

That's cool enough.  If you're looking for more of a challenge, you could always nuke a planet or two of the AI to really piss them off, too. ;)
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Re: Tons of resources -- what to do?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2009, 12:11:02 am »
That could work, though i'm trying to keep them low for the most part: taking only good planets, raiding data centers where possible, etc.
i want to have the best chance when i try and start hitting the IV and V worlds!
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