Race plans

[olle]

Whats the best race plan for eatch race?

[Squishy]

ZIK
This is what i will be doing *roughly*

Engeneering
Reserch, Construction, Mining

Reserch Order
HCT, CORE, HCT, HCT, SHIPS

Construction Order
Res Lab, Res Lab, E mine x5, Small Fact, Res Lab, Res Lab

This means that my ships will be ready just after tick 72 which puts me a little behind but will allow me to defend any incoming on the gal and hopefully cap shippies while theirs no JPGs about

[Gate]

Really haven't thought about it. Hell, I don't even know what race I am atm, though it looks like I could be xan.

Rough plan:
Engineering:
Research, construction, mining.

Construction:
Res Lab, mine, mine, mine, mine, res lab etc (factories as soon as I can get them)

Research:
HCT, HCT, CORE, SHIPS, HCT.

Though I really have nfi. :/

[Ultimate Newbie]

Originally Posted by Squishy

Reserch Order
HCT, CORE, HCT, HCT, SHIPS

Mate, like that, you'll prolly be twiddeling your thumbs - i did that last round and core simply takes to long to do - i could init too quickly and missed out on quite alot of resources...

I'd suggest you do HCT HCT then CORE. As for the rest, i have nfi as i quickly dismissed going zik .

Lo btw

[Banned]

Originally Posted by Squishy

Reserch Order
HCT, CORE, HCT, HCT, SHIPS

You get more resources if you drop Core and do mining as first priority. Obviously this means research as second priority which screws with your construction.

Res Lab, Res Lab, E mine x5, Small Fact, Res Lab, Res Lab

Why not Res, E, E, E, E, Res, E, Light fac?

[Squishy]

i aint planned it out sufficiantly yet i needed to check wether to do core 2nd or 3rd.

And i hadnt thought about the res lab untill u just mentioned it i might move it down the line a bit so that i get the benefit without missing out on e mines

[Banned]

If you initiate to 300, core gets you the roids earlier (plus the equivalent of more roids), but it costs you some ticks of research. For a Cath the cost is 13 ticks.

Incidentally, initiating to 300 roids is probably more beneficial than attacking at pt72.

[Squishy]

Their is no way i will be atttacking at tick 72 well i cant see it.

i will concentrate on defence untill i can cap a decent fleet

[noah02]

Originally Posted by Squishy

Their is no way i will be atttacking at tick 72 well i cant see it.

i will concentrate on defence untill i can cap a decent fleet

Its such a beauitul plan to

[olle]

oooooooooook.... im just throwing out some ides...

Xan have the advantage of FI ships low eta so they should take that advantage and roid em while they can so...

Engineering:
Research, mining, construction.

Construction:
RES LAB, RES LAB, LIGHT FACTORY

Research:
HCT, HCT, SHIPS, HCT, CORE.

no?


Cat
Engineering:
Research, mining, construction.

Construction:
RES LAB, RES LAB, CRYSTAL MINE, LIGHT FACTORY, RES LAB

Research:
HCT, HCT, SHIPS, HCT, CORE.

Zik

I dunno


Ter
Engineering:
mining, reaserch, construction.

Construction:
METAL MINE, RES LAB, RES LAB, LIGHT FACTORY

Research:
HCT, HCT, CORE, HCT, SHIPS

[The Way]

Only need one research lab for every 4 other constructions to get maximum benefit.

[~RevictioN~]

im going cath and im trying
Res/Min/Con

Construct
Reslab, Crystal x4, Reslab, Lightfactory

Research
CORE, HCT, HCT, HCT, SHIP, ETA, ETA | Bash core first all you want but ill be gaining resources on everyone post tick 18

[Hude]

Zik suggestion since theres not one yet.

Engineering:
Res/Min/Con

Construction:
Res Lab, 4 x Eonium Mine, Res Lab, Light Factory

Research:
HCT, Core, HCT, HCT, FI

If you want ships flying at tick 72, prolly could set Engineering to Res/Con/Min and then change to Res/Prod/Min before ordering ships.

Edit: /me slaps myself for not reading. Ofc there was a zik suggestion by Squishy already.

[Proxi]

how about a terran post from noah :P

In the beta i went
Res/Min/Con

Cons:
Res lab, metal mine, metal mine, metal mine , Res lab

Research
HCT1, Core, HCT2, HCT3, Hulls, Hulls <-- no so sure about this one.

[Colt]

Hmm, everyone has put Res as 1st on Eng prio, interesting...

[olle]

im gonne put mining onf first, then research and lastly construction

[Gate]

Originally Posted by Colt

Hmm, everyone has put Res as 1st on Eng prio, interesting...

Surely that is most beneficial?

I'm not as leet as teh mighteh Colt obviously, but I don't see how anything else could really pay off so well, atleast early in the game?

[Ultimate Newbie]

Originally Posted by OK.:.VJ

im gonne put mining onf first, then research and lastly construction

I do something similar after protection has ended (i think production might be third) - but definately research before protection ends .

[Gerbie]

Originally Posted by OK.:.VJ

Ter
Engineering:
mining, reaserch, construction.

Construction:
METAL MINE, RES LAB, RES LAB, LIGHT FACTORY

Research:
HCT, HCT, CORE, HCT, SHIPS

To get pods as a Terran you need Destroyers. That means you need to race to fr/de class asap. That means Research would have to be priority 1.

Core does not fit into such a strategy. Do it later.

As you also have a limitted number of constructions you can build (10), you will also have to do Infrastructure upgrade soon. You can stall a bit by having construction as third priority.

That means:

Engineering:
Research/Mining/Construction

Construction
Res Lab, Metal Mine, ...

Research
HCT, HCT, HCT, Ships, Ships, Infr, Core, eta

[Ultimate Newbie]

Originally Posted by Gerbie

Research
HCT, HCT, HCT, Ships, Ships, Infr, Core, eta

Whilst i agree with everything else you just said - going for three HCT at the beginning?

I would have gone for two, then one for ships (as it would be fairly quick in comparison) - mind you i havent done any detailed calculations about it :\.

Three just seems a tad high...

[Gerbie]

Originally Posted by Ultimate Newbie

Whilst i agree with everything else you just said - going for three HCT at the beginning?

I would have gone for two, then one for ships (as it would be fairly quick in comparison) - mind you i havent done any detailed calculations about it :\.

Three just seems a tad high...

You could be right. I haven't calced it through with roids and resources.

[Colt]

Originally Posted by Gate

Surely that is most beneficial?

I'm not as leet as teh mighteh Colt obviously, but I don't see how anything else could really pay off so well, atleast early in the game?

depends which race you play i suppose, tho ive always started with con/res/min, usually does well as terran, which is the only race i play :>

/me fluffl3s the nearly mighteh Gate

[Tietäjä]

Then, Colt, do you do two infrastructure upgrades during the protection ticks, or how do you manage to keep your constructions building up without restrictions? Terrans can build prolly 15 cons as 2nd priority even. For a terran, tempted to push it to third to make room for minings.

[noah02]

Originally Posted by veX

how about a terran post from noah :P

In the beta i went
Res/Min/Con

Cons:
Res lab, metal mine, metal mine, metal mine , Res lab

Research
HCT1, Core, HCT2, HCT3, Hulls, Hulls <-- no so sure about this one.

I had 20 extra roids compared to everyone else in beta so dont go with that plan that was just a testing phase for fun because of the spare roids.

As for mining 2nd? i have never had mining 2nd or 1st for the 1st 48 ticks at least.

[noah02]

oops sorry just read that wrong :P
You meant you.
Apologies :P

thought you was quoting a post from me :P

[Colt]

Originally Posted by Tietäjä

Then, Colt, do you do two infrastructure upgrades during the protection ticks, or how do you manage to keep your constructions building up without restrictions? Terrans can build prolly 15 cons as 2nd priority even. For a terran, tempted to push it to third to make room for minings.

During protection i did infrastrucutre before the 1st hull/eta so i could carry on with cons. You can get 18 cons with engineering prio constructions 1st, as 2nd you can only get 12.