Ancient race, waste?

cholerajoe · #1 May 19th, 2003, 10:52 AM

I am still learning. I still only play the TDM AI. I also like to start with 5000 racial points. One of my favorite tactics is to choose Aincient Race and scoop up all the special planets I can as fast as I can. This also gives me the "lay of the land".

Does anyone else use this against AI games or human games? I know it becomes a useless trait towards the end-game.

dogscoff · #2 May 20th, 2003, 01:18 AM

Plenty of people do, although others (like me) prefer to explore the old-fashioned way.

Ancient is also useful for spotting prime colonisation sites (large+huge breathables) and identifying enemy homeworlds (ie a medium world with ~100,100,100 resource values is probably someone's homeworld.).

DavidG · #3 May 19th, 2003, 02:09 PM

A lot of people I know really hate Ancient Race and some even go so far as to call it "cheating"

Personally I think it is a 1000 point trait that is worth 1000 points.

I don't usually take it anymore as I think the points are better spent elsewhere. Were it is really usefull is in a game where you can only colonize breathabe planets. Then your colony ships can make a beeline for the good planets

Aloofi · #4 May 19th, 2003, 02:17 PM

I don't use it because I like to roleplay a race that have just discovered space travel.
I guess that players that use the Ancient Race Trait use a justification like "our race was exterminated and we survived underground" to explain knowing the Quadrant but not having any ships or colonies.....

Gryphin · #5 May 19th, 2003, 02:47 PM

I used in the Phun Match because it is my first "real" battle against a human.

I don't take it against the AI anymore
1) Because it is too easy
2) What dogscoff said, I like the surprises and such. It does force you to decide between building scouts or using your colony ships as scouts. I tend to send my hapless colony ships as scouts. This is probably a waste.

cholerajoe · #6 May 19th, 2003, 06:55 PM

Thank you for the feedback.
I don't take it against the AI anymore1) Because it is too easy
2) What dogscoff said, I like the surprises and such. It does force you to decide between building scouts or using your colony ships as scouts. I tend to send my hapless colony ships as scouts. This is probably a waste.

It would take away the scout aspect completely.