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Here, I decided to write a terraforming guide for this thread: Forest everything. Make boreholes and use supply crawler on them. I think that about covers it. If there are any questions, just ask  P.S. Gaians forever, though the Hive is fun for when I want to not play the exact same way I always do.
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HappyHelmet posted:Terraforming is easier than you think. A lot of people don't bother because it gets pretty tedious after awhile, and the computer is so poo poo at doing it that you can get away with half-assing it. Terraforming really is easy so long as you plant forests on every square once you've teched to Tree Farms. I've used that strategy for eons, with all factions, and it works brilliantly. It gives a perfect balance of production, growth and money, and once you can build Hybrid Forests, you become an unstoppable juggernaut. Also, I always make sure to get the Weather Paradigm project as early as possible. IMO, Weather Paradigm, Hunter-Seeker Algorithm, Cloning Vats and Telepathic Matrix are the most important, or at least I find them to be. If I'm Deidre (which I usually am), I usually go for Dream Twister as well for mind worm fun.
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Tiny Bug Child posted:Cloning Vats is great, but it's usually available too late to make a difference. Telepathic Matrix definitely so, and my drone problems are usually solved by then anyway. They are really late game, and on their own, Cloning Vats and Telepathic Matrix are not amazing at that point. However, if you get both of them, they become silly-strong, as you'll have a permanent population boom without the drone riots associated with them, plus you can go ahead and build genejack factories and remove all your specialists and turn them back into workers. Getting these two together basically ends the game for everyone else.
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Baronjutter posted:God drat look at all those units and cities. I can't imagine playing on anything bigger than tiny, maybe small. I play on 512 by 512 usually. Even going down to huge (I think that's 128 by 96) feels tiny.
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bondetamp posted:It is also micromanagement Hell. I once had almost 200 bases in a game and it completely broke me of the habit. Each turn took more than half an hour. See, I actually like micromanaging an enormous empire, so ICS has never bugged me. Except for when the AI does it and places cities in the dumbest spots imaginable. The worst is the jungle, where the AI will always just spam cities a tile apart if they can reach it.
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