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What exactly do you mean by"good planets"?? If everything close to you other than your one asteroid is Ice/Volcanic, then you need to be researching colonization technology, not trade, and you need to be pushing for expansion even more (which means more scouts/LFs), not vertical growth... If you have desert/terran/asteroids around you to where you can hold off on colonization techs, then you are better off investing in civilian infrastructure and researching LRFs so you can do

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@MichaelCook Good articles...selling arms to Taiwan, well, that's to be expected...though I'm more interested in how the US is going to help Tibet...I doubt selling them Blackhawk helicopters is the answer...

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[quote who="DesConnor" reply="78" id="2661190"] the thread is about how to quickstart an economy [/quote] My concern is determining when exactly to start trade...Warfleet believes that building trade ports ASAP is the best strategy for eco players...the problem is, we are lacking good comparisons...if Warfleet is such a great eco player, it might be because of his strategy in rushing trade early...or it might just be because he's a good player....we don't really know t

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[quote who="Xer07" reply="578" id="2659694"] That they have such a large military confounds me, there's no need for it; their diplomatic relations abroad are quite stable, and they're not in any large, conflicted alliances like NATO... [/quote] I agree...I understand them focusing on research/prototypes in order to stay on par with or surpass (technologically) the US, but having a large military for...the sake of having a large military? I don't know...underst

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[quote who="Xer07" reply="571" id="2659621"] 1. Not necessarily true, that's like saying that the USSR's army, in 1991 the largest in the history of mankind, is still around today. It's not, my point being that even if the Chinese army has a Chinese state to support it, given China's large population and unruly population, such an existance would have trouble lasting, let alone being a threat. [/quote] This is a good comparison, though I don't think China will

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I'm pretty sure they already have that fully developed...they used it in Transformers 2 to wipe out the Pyramids [e digicons]|-)[/e]

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Good link JuleTron...I would have loved to see the faces of those commanders when they saw that sub...

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[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="567" id="2658690"] I've ran a couple of simulations and your theory of these countries falling does not hold true. I factored in both if the USA land is "livable" or not and it doesn't matter, the rest of the world gets by. It was tricky to include the effect of Hollywood disappearing but the combination of a Dual Core processor with an extra gig of ram carried the simulation through.[/quote] :-)

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[quote who="Xer07" reply="566" id="2658662"] Now, we may not pay for all of China's military, or anything of the sort, but other than that the situation is roughly the same. [/quote] I don't think you can compare Japan to China...as you have mentioned, Japan does not have a military or defense budget--China does--if we wanted to send a cruise missile over to North Korea, Japan is not going to do anything to stop us, but China can...if we wanted to send troops to Myanm

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[quote who="Bask3tCase" reply="563" id="2658398"] Anyway, out here in the real world, China's military technology sucks. [/quote] The quality of the Chinese military may be inferior to say, Israel or the US or Russia...but its good enough to hold the line, and still better than most nations...the issue isn't the current state of its military quality, but the future...there is a significant gap, but China is closing in on the US... By the way, cheers for u

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[quote who="Alpha_003_Snipe" reply="558" id="2658043"] Fallout reference? [/quote] After I finished typing that, it was so tempting to go back and add "or newly annexed Canada"....

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[quote who="SwerydAss" reply="559" id="2658083"] Since when does the type of government mean your more likely to go to war. there are actually monarchy governments out there that are more peaceful than America is. Hell China hasn't tried to expand its borders for over a thousand years. Also India might have a smaller army now but they do have nukes. [/quote] Yes India has nukes...so does France...are we going to go to war with France anyti

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The Overseer ability is an instant hull boost, and can be done continuously if there are enough of them....it is not uncommon for the AI to have lots of Overseers, and when you focus on a single ship, you can bet every single one of those overseers is going to be adding HP as fast as it can to the target you're hitting...getting a boost of 250 HP every second or so can make it difficult to take out any target...given that the shields were regenerated as well, its clear that the Ultimate abili

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[quote who="Greg30007" reply="66" id="2657958"] Without feed he would probably crush Jamie but CCB would be crushed as well. [/quote] I agree...except that CCB had only a single terran world...Jammie had two terrans and an asteroid...even if CCBoom is a skilled player, he had only one planet, and was building a fleet based entirely off of feed...in that situation, the economic power of your team I think becomes more important than the skill of one player corne

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[quote who="Xer07" reply="556" id="2657871"] For one: Why are you concerned with China? Why aren't you worried about India... [/quote] China is a greater concern than India because China is not democratic and has more military power...India may become a greater economic power than China, but it does not pose the same military threat that China does...it's not media hype, it's simply the truth...America is more likely to run into a political showdown or armed c

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[quote who="Greg30007" reply="63" id="2657710"] Actually its triple post [/quote] Good call, I didn't even realize that...why do you forums keep freezing on me?!?!?

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[quote who="Greg30007" reply="62" id="2657706"] You guys do realize that in game you are analizeing Warfleet dropped in 37 min of the game. And that i was fighting noob player. NME is better but I would rate him.... [/quote] I understand Warfleet dropped...my concern is while he was still in the game...Jammie should have been taken out much faster, either gone or at least lost his HW before Warfleet dropped...Warfleet had one cap and waited too long to get LRMs beca

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Sorry, double post...forums here keep freezing up on me and I can never tell if I've posted or not....

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Watched the replay...DesConnor gave a pretty good summary, not much else to say... I will agree with DesConnor though, Warfleet definitely should have stopped going eco and invested in ships to take Jammie out fast... In my opinion, if Warfleet and Roujheh had built fleet over eco and rushed Jammie faster and harder, they could have split the two terran worlds and went back to playing eco the rest of the game while they sent the remnants of their fleets to the front lines...</

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[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="553" id="2657324"]You do realize America actually has a fair amount of oil? However, various prohibitions on drilling and exploitation put in place by the greenies mean our stashes in the shallow Gulf waters, Alaska, and off the Pacific coast might as well not exist.[/quote] I am aware of this...the US produces about 2/5 of the oil it consumes...but since it consumes far more than it produces, and there are many countries with much larger amounts

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[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="550" id="2656950"] India, China, Russia and the EU, all big economic players and all armed with nukes. I'd like to believe they have sensible heads on their shoulders without US leadership [/quote] No country can win per se a nuclear war...but if it came to that, America would be in the best position...ironically, having so many forces abroad would prevent a complete loss of American military power...America also does not have the population densit

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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="53" id="2657065"] So really, you get your first trade ports up earlier, but because I colonized faster I get my trade route operational earlier, and the planet itself is just as profitable as those early trade ports anyways. So yes, I do think that fast colonization is the better way to spend your starting cash than two trade ports without route. [/quote] I have tested setting up an early trade network with Advent, and I've

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[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="546" id="2656723"] Do you really want Putin or someone like him to be leading a new Russian superpower? How about a China puffed up with fanatical nationalism and eyes on Asia? Those two things are going to happen, and someone is going to have to stand up to them, and tell them "No". Europe can't do it, so America is going to have to, and it can't act as the guardian of freedom if it isn't a superpower.[/quote] How exactly is Amer

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[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="543" id="2655836"] Obama and Congress are certainly not looking for a fight with Iran, and that's what matters since they're the ones with the powers to wage and declare war respectively. And Obama and the rest of Western civilization are morons if they honestly believe Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, and not to make weapons they can use to wipe entire countries off the map in a matter of hours. [/quote] Both valid po