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What's the decay rate on spaceship parts? Could someone sandbag progress and leave most of the parts within a few hammers of completion, then finish it all right at the end without losing much progress? I know you could run into the problem where you can only finish one thing per turn, but if you start unloading the stalled spaceship parts from your city build queues on a schedule at the end that would make it harder for a rival to predict your actual launch date. I haven't thought about this much before because I'm basically never in a space race at the end of a game.
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Doesn't that run more of a risk of someone burning a city before you've finished a vital part?
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That's true. Defend the spaceship, yo!
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(June 10th, 2015, 19:20)spacetyrantxenu Wrote: ... that would make it harder for a rival to predict your actual launch date.
As tech is the real indicator I doubt any player would fall for that. Once someone has all the needed tech you expect him to launch in a few turns. Doesn't really matter if he has any part already built or not. And the techprogress is usually trackable so one can estimate when you will finish the needed techs.
And of course once your plan is discovered you have the risk that one of the building cities gets razed.
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Great post sadgit, if only gav knew how close it is to reality...
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As I understood it, Gavagai wants OB for the trade routes, while GJ states that there's no economic benefit in then for either of them, and hence he's looking for malevolent schemes behind that offer. Anybody got an explanation?
I guess it would be over the line to ask GJ *why* OB have no economic impact?
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Yes, it would be as you got the economic impact from the other thread.
There *is* economic impact regardless, but it is relatively marginal. The difference is that Gavagai is looking for every marginal advantage to try to beat TBS, whilst Joey is much more worried about potential military actions from Gavagai, leading him to discount the (very) marginal economic benefit and see only the suspicious side of things.
Seeing as I'm commenting, I'll note that I was very surprised that Gav couldn't see a potential reason for Joey to be annoyed when he was talking in the same paragraph about gifting military hardware to Metra.
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(August 3rd, 2015, 04:15)Qgqqqqq Wrote: .
There *is* economic impact regardless, but it is relatively marginal. The difference is that Gavagai is looking for every marginal advantage to try to beathings.
That might be the best explanation. I'm just really confused (and entertained, of course) how those two guys are failing to make sense of each other's actions and just decide to assume insanity. I think part of that can be attributed to the "GJ is emotional and crazy" meta that has been building up in other games (IMO very much exaggerated).
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Yeah, gav gj misunderstanding is fun  . Although it makes things too easy for tbs.
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