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Borehold Cluster too powerful?
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| Author | Topic: Borehold Cluster too powerful? |
| eladamir |
posted 04-27-99 01:45 PM ET  
Hello all! I started playing after installing the patch as the UoP and started near the Borehole Cluster. After ~50 turns I built three cities, each near each Borehole, and quickly researched up to +3 max minerals technology, and continued to build Children's Creche, Energy Bank and +3 max energy technology. I won about 100 turns later, with a lot of military units I built at this bases... Am I the only one to think this is too powerful? Mr. Planet didn't have the time to get on my nerves, and I paid all of the factions other than one each time, the one I crushed :-) |
| trippin daily |
posted 04-27-99 01:52 PM ET
What size map, and what difficulty. What were your lifeform settings... I know of Transcend on a large map, r even thinker, I have never overrun the whole planet becausse of the borehole cluster. Trippin Daily |
| Goobmeister |
posted 04-27-99 03:11 PM ET
I have to agree with Trippin' The borehole's are nice but starting near the cluster is not overwhelming. Me thinks you got lucky in more ways than just location. Goob |
| Jimmy |
posted 04-29-99 05:45 PM ET
The Borehole cluster does really boost the minerals in a base. Just be careful when sea levels rise. With a pressure dome, your base survives but the boreholes don't, so that base that produced 70 or more minerals/turn suddenly only produces 20 or even less. |
| trippin daily |
posted 04-29-99 07:29 PM ET
Was that first hand experience Jimmy? That must have been a sad experience if it was. Trippin Daily |
| Jimmy |
posted 04-30-99 01:34 PM ET
Yeah it happened to me in a game just a week ago. |
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