Play by web guide

Mudshark · #1 October 13th, 2001, 06:27 AM

Having been a long time listener, almost first time caller. Oh! wait a minute this is a message board!
I am currently in about 3 Play-By-Web Games.

I have found that most player will research PDC very early in the game, making missiles obsolete in the early stages.
Mines are also useless, due to the fact that minesweepers will be Online at about the same time.

Looking at the current best AI races, it seems that engine destroing weapons are the best to research. I think I am looking at what has worked for PBW, and almost as important what has not. I have found that sticking a research plan, and finding allies is very important, What have you found out? What is your research tree? What makes us newbies so much worse than the more seasoned players?

Phoenix-D · #2 October 13th, 2001, 07:30 AM

Tip 1: do NOT send all your fleet to the retrofit yards at the same time. I did this, then the fleet was attacked. Ow..

Mines can be useful, if only because they get any AI opponents off your back and force your human oppponents to build sweepers.

Phoenix-D

Dragonlord · #3 October 13th, 2001, 07:57 AM

Hi Phoenix, still traumatised by that fleet-in-retrofit I wiped out with luck ? :-)

Mines are very useful. I use them on wormholes and over planets. Minelayers can lay at twice the speed that a sweeper can clean... and it forces opponents to send enough sweepers with every fleet...causing them to spend resources and maintenance on sweepers while your mines are cheap and maintenance-free.

In one PBW game I had one annoying opponent who put one minelaying component on a transport ship, loaded it up with mines, then started creating little 2-mine minefields *everywhere*. Makes you really paranoid, even after defeating his military I couldn't safely send any colonisers or such into his former systems without sweeper escort...

Mephisto · #4 October 13th, 2001, 11:32 AM

Always remember the Tholian first principle of war as a dipolmatic suggest to all other races: "Let's you and him fight."

[This message has been edited by [K126]Mephisto (edited 13 October 2001).]

Mudshark · #5 October 13th, 2001, 12:10 PM

quote by Phoenix-D; posted 13 October 2001 06:30

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(Tip 1: do NOT send all your fleet to the retrofit yards at the same time. I did this, then the fleet was attacked. Ow..) There goes my plan of giving you a good "gift" right before I attack! LOL. Sounds like a game I'm in right now, built a light cruiser(big ship at that time, no one else had that size), very weapon heavy. In the upgrade, I did remember to include engines, the really sad part, did a copy of the design for minesweepers! Duh.....

Dracus · #6 October 13th, 2001, 02:55 PM

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Originally posted by Dragonlord:
In one PBW game I had one annoying opponent who put one minelaying component on a transport ship, loaded it up with mines, then started creating little 2-mine minefields *everywhere*. Makes you really paranoid, even after defeating his military I couldn't safely send any colonisers or such into his former systems without sweeper escort...

I love that trick.