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Jimmy posted 05-08-99 01:21 PM ET
What is the best way to deal with the massive fungus expansion at the end of the game? Is building large numbers of specialized formers, constantly removing the fungus and planting forest the answer? I try to have as little eco damage as possible but the fungus just destroys everything and then of course tons of demon boil mindworms uddenly appear right adjacent to a base and do some serious damage. I guess the best response is to station tons of trance and empath scouts in a base?

trippin daily posted 05-08-99 02:41 PM ET
To minimize the effects of pissing planet off you first need to get your planet rating as high as possible in your SE choices. After of which you also want to get all ecology protecting base facilities built. You then want to station an empath chopper in each city. Your garrisons should have the trance ability. If you have the two Pys combat SP's, that can help in defence. When a boil pops up, send your empath chopper in, one attack will kill them all. Locust still have to be attacked one at a time though. You should then get rid of that fungus patch as soon as possible with a fungicidial superformer.
Trippin Daily
Plato90s posted 05-08-99 02:58 PM ET
To stop those huge fungus explosions which may wipe you out, you need to build the Voice of Planet SP. That will stop any more Mindworms or Locusts from popping up. You will still run into a few random ones when travelling through fungus, but not huge stacks of 20+ Demon Boils.
The downside is the Ascent to Transcendance is now available to all your enemies, whether they have the appropriate technology or not. So you have to go around and swat down anyone who tries to ascent.
This is the only way to go for people who want to see how high a score they can get. You can't build your size 50+ cities while trying to deal with Planet's fungal blooms. So build the Voice and wipe out everyone except one or two final bases. You can then build in peace.
By the time you get Voice, you can already produce 2-3-3 from fungus squares, so having all fungus isn't that bad anyways.
Jimmy posted 05-08-99 05:33 PM ET
Thanks for the advice. I had a green economy for my planet rating and I did build all the ecology facilities, but I still got attacks from 20+ demon boils. Since the fungus was advacent to the base, I got no warning and my empath copters got destroyed before they could attack the boils.
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Author	Topic: fungus explosion (help)
Jimmy	posted 05-08-99 01:21 PM ET What is the best way to deal with the massive fungus expansion at the end of the game? Is building large numbers of specialized formers, constantly removing the fungus and planting forest the answer? I try to have as little eco damage as possible but the fungus just destroys everything and then of course tons of demon boil mindworms uddenly appear right adjacent to a base and do some serious damage. I guess the best response is to station tons of trance and empath scouts in a base?
trippin daily	posted 05-08-99 02:41 PM ET To minimize the effects of pissing planet off you first need to get your planet rating as high as possible in your SE choices. After of which you also want to get all ecology protecting base facilities built. You then want to station an empath chopper in each city. Your garrisons should have the trance ability. If you have the two Pys combat SP's, that can help in defence. When a boil pops up, send your empath chopper in, one attack will kill them all. Locust still have to be attacked one at a time though. You should then get rid of that fungus patch as soon as possible with a fungicidial superformer. Trippin Daily
Plato90s	posted 05-08-99 02:58 PM ET To stop those huge fungus explosions which may wipe you out, you need to build the Voice of Planet SP. That will stop any more Mindworms or Locusts from popping up. You will still run into a few random ones when travelling through fungus, but not huge stacks of 20+ Demon Boils. The downside is the Ascent to Transcendance is now available to all your enemies, whether they have the appropriate technology or not. So you have to go around and swat down anyone who tries to ascent. This is the only way to go for people who want to see how high a score they can get. You can't build your size 50+ cities while trying to deal with Planet's fungal blooms. So build the Voice and wipe out everyone except one or two final bases. You can then build in peace. By the time you get Voice, you can already produce 2-3-3 from fungus squares, so having all fungus isn't that bad anyways.
Jimmy	posted 05-08-99 05:33 PM ET Thanks for the advice. I had a green economy for my planet rating and I did build all the ecology facilities, but I still got attacks from 20+ demon boils. Since the fungus was advacent to the base, I got no warning and my empath copters got destroyed before they could attack the boils.