After Action Report Cross-Post: Extreme Difficulty After Action Report

[Icemania]

Cross-Post as otherwise the After Action Report Sub-Forum is sometimes forgotten!

Extreme Difficulty After Action Report

[Icemania]

Batch 2 is up.

[Bingeling]

Interesting to see what life as a power player is like

[Icemania]

If you ideas that lead to even more power, let me know! [:D]

[Bingeling]

You should reduce the home system quality to feel the need for even more perfection.

My worry with these kinds of AAR is that it may make new players believe that you have to do this thing to play the game...

[Icemania]

These are my "fun" settings ... harsh homeworld starts got old fast!

I very much agree with your post. The more AAR's we have with different styles the better. How about doing something similar or revisiting your old AAR's with a Universe version?

[Bingeling]

I am not sure if people enjoy my AARs or not. I could do a pretty automated one again.

I am typing a war forum post on automation right now...

[Spidey]

You're doing pretty well, Ice, but there are two questions I'm left with after reading that AAR.

1) You don't put labs onto your mining stations? At least I didn't notice you saying you did. To me, doing that is an essential way of keeping my state maintenance costs down while making mining stations even more useful while drawing a bit heavier upon that massive chunk of money the civilian sector is going to sit on anyway. For that reason, long range scanners end up on mining bases too and never on any state bases.

2) You're specializing your research bases? What I tend to do with them is 2 of each lab on all three of them. This way, my super-geek scientist with +% in all three skills (assuming I have one) can keep on providing his bonus in the two weaker schools until I've actually found and built a base on a better bonus. I'm using the first space port for ratio manipulation very early on and then reduce gradually through retrofits as mining stations go up.

[Icemania]

Hey Spidey, see my response in the AAR. I've linked the AAR from Steam as well so responses in one place may be of interest to others.

[Icemania]

The latest batch of strategic notes and screenshots is now up in the AAR.

[Icemania]

The latest batch of strategic notes and screenshots is now up in the AAR. Homeworld invasions are next!

[vmxa_slith]

Is the mining bug you mentioned a known issue or some new thing? I did not see it in the support forum, a quick glance.

[Icemania]

No I haven't posted it in Tech Support. I don't tend to worry about bugs unless they are major, and all this needed was some rebuilds, which slowed things down a little. I'm not sure if any others have the problem?

[Icemania]

Updated with a couple of homeworld invasions for your entertainment.