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Oldry is trying to escape with an arc through my territory (he seems to be sending a lot off in random directions lately). I've sent a Blackbird to follow him and some Cruisers to intercept so I can capture an arc for myself - free 9k steel? Sure! Can anyone remember what's at Pi Circax? I just wanted to crunch a few numbers to try and figure out what the outcome might be.
Btw, I'm thinking I might write a little battle calculator, would anyone be interested in it? Probably won't be anything fancy at first, just put in numbers of ships on both sides and it'll work out what ships take part and give you a casualty report based on 30% of shots hitting. Some things will obviously be guess work, like whether arcs are classed as more or less important than scouts when in a battle, but I'm hoping it won't be completely unusable.
WHOOO! Nabbed my first additional home planet, with a 300k steel reserve
YAY! What are you going to spend your steel on?
New planets take ages to build up to something useful anyway.
funny thing about links.. you have tons of stuff in A, build stuff in B, scrap it immediately (any loss? not materials i don't think), then build stuff in C, etc to move resources around linked system.
Indeed, but DG strikes me as a long-term game, so colonising is definitely useful. How about a balance between them? 100k on arcs, 200k on fleet? Colonise 6 planets with 2 arcs each (108k), then spend the rest on a fleet? That way you get a semi-useful planet by Christmas which will hopefully help to bolster your now growing empire
Aye... but if I can spend that 108k on warships instead of arcs, then I can attack more colonized planets instead of having to build them up myself!
True, but look at Oldry, he did exactly that and now he's cornered and probably going to be destroyed, save the couple of arcs he'll manage to sneak out.