Recent content by Aeson

If you want to deride the nature of the conversation going on in the thread, it's probably best not to do so by indulging in an even less topical tangent. (Though of course impossible, since the derision is by definition not topical.) Please discontinue the sniping.

Definitely not in your post ;) Please do not troll other posters.

It's possible to maintain Biowells, Academies, and Terrascapes without international Trade Routes* by running Energy Espionage missions, Solar Collectors, and/or having a few Generator cities. It can get dicey near the end of a very fast conquest when having 10 or 20 newly captured cities in...

The wait was entirely because you were not clear in what you were asking for. You can't put that on me, it's your own fault.

No, it's not just based on theorycrafting. You are the one "theorycrafting" here about my experience with the game. (Like you did recently with Acken, pretending you knew his game settings better than he did.) I went back and searched your posts to see what the heck you're talking about ... and...

If you want me to go play a game to post results from you'll need to be more specific about what type of game you want to see results from. Especially since if you want a type of game that isn't going to benefit from Biowells we can just save time and agree it won't without needing to play a game.

Maybe. We have no way of knowing for sure since the devs don't give any feedback about it. I've been on playtesting before (check credits for Civ IV), so I do understand something about how the process works. In any case, whether Firaxis listens or not is only part of the fun. I like a good...

Yah. Affinity 4 units could be made interesting somehow. Though at this point I'd expect the best we can hope for is a patch that balances their cost:effectiveness through a STR reduction and/or cost increase. Yah, I use lots of Phasal Transporters. But they come somewhat late in the game...

You don't have to read it if you don't want to. In that analogy, you are the one talking about how long the line is.

What I'm saying is there are different ends in-game. You wouldn't do the same thing in regards to a fastest Domination as you would towards a fastest Contact or a highest Score. The context matters. What is the goal to achieve? Not all of them will benefit from Biowells, some will more than others.

I would still build CNDRs once I got to Affinity 9 ... and until then I probably would go with Ranger + Rover/Soldier lines. SABRs I might not even research to. They are really just that slow. If you use CNDRs properly with faster moving bombardment, you really can't use SABRs much at all...

The squeeky wheel gets the grease. Any time the subject comes up, it should be addressed properly.

Competitive is a rather vague term. Towards which end?

Robotics and Bionics do need a big nerf though. Robotics just isn't about getting Autoplants. It leads to CNDRs which even with a nerf will still be important Supremacy units. Bionics isn't just about the free tech. Biowells are powerful, and fixing Health will only make them more powerful. And...

Even if you put CNDRs on the same tech as SABRs, I'd still build CNDRs. It's my first war. Not the only one. (I rarely stop once started.) As I said, I still use CNDRs instead of SABRs at Affinity 9. It's not that CNDRs are just available earlier, it's that they are cheaper, faster, more...