I dont understand how you are supposed to manage eco damage. Are you just supposed to terraform as little as possible early game? Even with hybrid forests/centauri preserves i still get eco damage from producing too many minerals/nutrients....(although i dont seem to get any eco damage from collecting energy).
Eco damage
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Herfelt
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Build many tree farms and hybrid forests. Not only forests one of the best tiles, each tree farm, hybrid forest, preserve and temple of the planet increases your mineral limit before eco damage by one.
If you have a sufficient large empire, you can eliminate eco damage all together by simply building forest farms and hybrid forests.
If you have a sufficient large empire, you can eliminate eco damage all together by simply building forest farms and hybrid forests.
I'd like to elaborate on Herfelt's reply. Each Tree Farm, Hybrid Forest, Centauri Preserve and Temple of Planet increases your clean mineral limit (= # minerals a base can produce before eco-damage occurs) by one, but only after at least one of your bases gets a fungal >pop<. (Each fungal >pop< also increases the clean mineral limit by one.) The increased clean mineral limit applies to all your bases. So, produce around 40 ED at one base (using supply crawlers). You should get a >pop< after a few turns. Now build Tree Farms (usually the first available ED-reducing facility) at multiple bases until ED disappears. Continue building the above-mentioned facilities throughout the game and your bases should remain free of ED. For more detailed information on how ED works, see this thread at Apolyton.
Another way to approach ED is to build Trance defenders and Empath Song attackers in high-mineral bases. When native life forms appear in >pop<s, harvest them for ECs.
Another way to approach ED is to build Trance defenders and Empath Song attackers in high-mineral bases. When native life forms appear in >pop<s, harvest them for ECs.
You need to get one >pop< and then build Tree Farms, etc. Any Tree Farms or other such facilities that are built before the first >pop< won't increase the clean mineral limit.
Herfelt
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Usually this isn't an issue, since you get crawlers and eco engineering before tree farms are available.
Buster's Uncle
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Yes. You can build, sell, build endlessly, increasing the mineral limit for you faction by one each time.
Each fungal pop also raises the limit by one, but after the first two, you have to deal with the native life appearing...
Each fungal pop also raises the limit by one, but after the first two, you have to deal with the native life appearing...
