I was playing a game last night when, in the middle of a serious border clash with a neighbor my research on Improved Robotic Controls 3 came through. I found myself staring at the prompt asking how much of my planetary spending I wanted to allocate to upgrading my factories and I realized that I had no clue how to proceed. I was building ships and still trying to stand up some of my newer colonies while my starting core had been at maxed factories. I realized that with other techs requiring implementation costs (like Improved Terriforming or Soil Enrichment) the game explicitly states how much it will cost so I can decide how to allocate for that cost. However with IRC the game is much more vague. I looked in the OSG and saw the table of cost per factory per level of IIT but it didn't talk about Refit costs. So the reason I am writing is to ask for opinions on how to go about implementing IRC techs in the most efficient way. Usually when it isn't such an issue I just hit 25% or whatever and don't give it a second thought and my colonies just do what they do, but this time I got to thinking about the most efficient way to implement IRCs. For example in order to implement IT10 the cost is 50 BC but I have not seen a similar cost breakdown for IRC3 for example. I suppose that this is because the cost is per factory, but how much is the Refit cost that must be paid before I can build more factories? In a case where some worlds are maxed and otherwise occupied I can hold off building factories until I have some extra production spending, but if I wanted to divert spending from ship building for a bit how much of a speed bump am I looking at? Is there an optimal amount (or percentage) to allocate into upgrading/building factories to get the most bang for my buck? Any comments are welcome!

Let's get in the spirit of this thing.

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"The Communists and Internal Security have done the most dastardly thing yet and deleted the game thread! Please be patient while Friend Computer tries to restore things from their attack."




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I was doing some learning about animated gifs, and figured out how to create them from the images in MoM. I figure people might be interested. It's a zip file containing all of the unit images (facing down and to the left -- combat animation, so it has all 4 frames), plus all.html, which is just an html file to show all the images on a single page. Depending on your zip viewer, you may have to unpack it to actually see it.

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Thanks for the game everyone. For me, to say I learned a lot from this would be an understatement.

I haven't gone into any other threads yet - that will be an adventure in itself. If anyone wants to plod through my thread (I was much a noob at the beginning of the game) please don't take personally anything that may have been said in there. If anyone wants to check out my civ my password is, ironically, "killazza".

Quote:Map: Random settings determined by mapmaker; no ‘ILOSE button’ starts but no guarantee of perfect balance

My thread for my duel with Q was met with positively, so I thought I'd make another one for my new duel with Ruff_Hi. The settings are the same as before:

(November 24th, 2013, 17:47)TheHumanHydra Wrote: ... no barbs, no huts, no corps, elephants, planes, or spies; GSpies stay in borders; Quick, Ancient, Noble, Mirrorland ...

In case anyone has anything to say.

A lurker thread title which isn't insulting the players?! Inconceivable!






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