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Drago Sinio posted 07-13-99 12:53 PM ET
In my last game as UoP, I used this strategy to build a hedgerow mirror park as quickly as possible; first I had the science city produce five crawlers and send them to mined squares, which generated an additional 15 minerals very quickly, then I built six formers and put them to work building a hedgerow mirror park big enough to to place 30 crawlers on the solar collectors, which generated something like 300 energies for my science city. The crawlers arrived on the collectors as they were being built, when there were no collectors available i parked the crawler on one of the mirrors until a collector was available. When all the mirrors and collectors were built I sent the formers to other cities and homed them from there which allowed the science city to produce the 30 crawlers even faster. It worked well for me, but I was wondering if anyone had a better (faster) way of building a mirror park?
Zoetrope posted 07-14-99 07:09 AM ET
Sounds good to me; I'll try it in my current game, where I have a two large mirror parks in the process of merging. Although I'm playing the Hive, this gives me a strong economy. With more crawlers to collect _all_ the energy I'll do even better.
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Author	Topic: Energy Farm Building Strategy/Fastest
Drago Sinio	posted 07-13-99 12:53 PM ET In my last game as UoP, I used this strategy to build a hedgerow mirror park as quickly as possible; first I had the science city produce five crawlers and send them to mined squares, which generated an additional 15 minerals very quickly, then I built six formers and put them to work building a hedgerow mirror park big enough to to place 30 crawlers on the solar collectors, which generated something like 300 energies for my science city. The crawlers arrived on the collectors as they were being built, when there were no collectors available i parked the crawler on one of the mirrors until a collector was available. When all the mirrors and collectors were built I sent the formers to other cities and homed them from there which allowed the science city to produce the 30 crawlers even faster. It worked well for me, but I was wondering if anyone had a better (faster) way of building a mirror park?
Zoetrope	posted 07-14-99 07:09 AM ET Sounds good to me; I'll try it in my current game, where I have a two large mirror parks in the process of merging. Although I'm playing the Hive, this gives me a strong economy. With more crawlers to collect _all_ the energy I'll do even better.