posted 04-02-99 12:54 AM ET     

To go along with the terraforming thread, what does everyone do to deal with the infamous eigth faction, Planet? Specifically late game occurances of Planet on the rampage.

I once had a small island which was my main production base for military air units (gotta love that punishment sphere). I had boils popping up like crazy, and locusts swarming me, and they were swatting me like flies. Rather than let them destroy the base, and come at my continent, I PB my island *sniff* and took em all out.

posted 04-02-99 07:51 AM ET            

1st, Win the game before you have the industrial output to PO Planet. Not much help I will admit but thats what I usually do.

2nd, Adjust your mineral output so that your cities do not produce eco damage. In addition build those city improvements that reduce eco damage. If my notes are correct a city maxed with these improvments with a primarilly forest based economy can produce 70 build points before it starts to pollute. This is more than enough to build most anything.

3rd, Deal with the problem tacticly. At this stage of the game you can build almost any unit you like. I garrison any city that is at risk with at least 1 trance empath chopper. When the fungal bloom appears park the chopper over it and no native life can appear. If more than 1 fungal bloom occurs than park anything else that you have handy over it. Just remember the huge stacks of mindworms can be a great source of income if you can take the first hit then wipe them out latter in the same turn.

posted 04-04-99 02:51 PM ET            

Maliciously kill ALL fungus anywhere near your areas. Have magtubes connect anything important. Use drop empath tanks to take care of land assaults, missiles to take care of the rest. Between good eco management, preparation beforehand, and watching out for blooms, planet's cake.