Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:45 am
In my humble opionion nothing is near as strong as Unification and Subterran.
Unification
Subterran
Cybernetic
Rich HW
Low-G HW
Espionage -10
Alternatively you can choose Repulsive and Large HW instead of Low-G HW.
Cybernetic sounds a bit strange, but it works perfectly with Subterran. In most games your HW is the best productive planet and also the only planet that can produce food fairly well. Cybernertic helps to lower the effort to produce food. Though you are Subterran you can easily abstain from biospheres. The hydroponic farm also works with Cybernertic. So every planet that has a hydroponic farm produces 4 food for free. This give your HW a big margin for producing ships and stuff. Not mentioned the built in autorepair.
So cybernetic is a strong pick, if you choose subterran. If you dont choose subterran, the advantage is not that large and imho not worth 4 points.
Also Low-G HW seems to be a strange pick. but if you take into account that most good planets are Heavy-G the disadvantage is not that big. Of course you have on serveral planets a 25% penalty. But I think 5 points are worth it. If you choose that, you should plan to get the gravity generator technology. If you dont want to pick that, you should take repulsive.
I also think Population Growth is not neccessarily needed in connection with subterran. Thanks to cybernetic you don't have to produce to much food, soil enrichment is a nice technology but not hardly needed. You can pick Cloning Center instead which helps to boom your population enough.
I've played MoO2 for a long time and tried a lot of different things, but nothing got close to this.
Unification
Subterran
Cybernetic
Rich HW
Low-G HW
Espionage -10
Alternatively you can choose Repulsive and Large HW instead of Low-G HW.
Cybernetic sounds a bit strange, but it works perfectly with Subterran. In most games your HW is the best productive planet and also the only planet that can produce food fairly well. Cybernertic helps to lower the effort to produce food. Though you are Subterran you can easily abstain from biospheres. The hydroponic farm also works with Cybernertic. So every planet that has a hydroponic farm produces 4 food for free. This give your HW a big margin for producing ships and stuff. Not mentioned the built in autorepair.
So cybernetic is a strong pick, if you choose subterran. If you dont choose subterran, the advantage is not that large and imho not worth 4 points.
Also Low-G HW seems to be a strange pick. but if you take into account that most good planets are Heavy-G the disadvantage is not that big. Of course you have on serveral planets a 25% penalty. But I think 5 points are worth it. If you choose that, you should plan to get the gravity generator technology. If you dont want to pick that, you should take repulsive.
I also think Population Growth is not neccessarily needed in connection with subterran. Thanks to cybernetic you don't have to produce to much food, soil enrichment is a nice technology but not hardly needed. You can pick Cloning Center instead which helps to boom your population enough.
I've played MoO2 for a long time and tried a lot of different things, but nothing got close to this.