Dad & H: you'll have to forgive the subject of this next post - it's about the SpacePioneers game JP got me into. Right now, I'm on Urlaub in the game, which lasts for a minimum of 72 hours. I figured Valentine's Day weekend would be a good time to take a vacation from the game. Urlaub means you can't access the game, but no one can attack your planets while you are gone. Your resource production drops to 70%, too.
JP - I am really becoming a fan of Gattling Verteidigung. I know it's a basic defense, but what is making me a big fan is that it is all Metall, and no Kristall!
My rule of thumb now on defense is to compare a defense to a Schlachtschiff. By that math, 15 Gattling guns equal one Schlachtschiff. The firepower is the same (15 Gatt are slightly more powerful than 1 Ss). The structure is exactly the same - 60,000. The total shields on 15 Gatt (15 x 150 = 2250) are 2 1/2 times as much as 1 Ss (900)!
The kicker comes when you take into account the fact that Kristall costs 4 times as much as Metall on the open market. 15 Gatt cost 60,000 Metall. 1 Ss costs about 34,000 Metall, plus about 26,000 Kristall. Since 26,000 K is worth as much as 104,000 M, your total opportunity cost of building one Ss is about 138,000 M! 138k is about 2.3 times as expensive as 60k!
So, by building 15 Gatt, you get the same firepower and structure, with 2 and a half times the shielding, for less than half the cost!
Of course, the down side of stationary defenses is that they are stationary. The other major downside is that your 15 Gatt will be progressively destroyed in an attack, reducing the firepower. That is, in round one, you might lose 5 Gatt, reducing your firepower to 2/3 of the original. A Schlachtschiff would have no loss of firepower, until it is destroyed. I think the Gatt's shielding advantage would reduce this disadvantage, though.
Finally, Gatt is good because it is automatically repaired to 70% levels after a battle. So, you get most of it back, for free!
All right, I obviously have over-analyzed one aspect of the game. But, it's fun!
Let me know what you think!!!
Thanks, all, for the chance to vent/express this!
C
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 2/11/2005 11:42:00 AM