Planning on how to spend Your start up.
Was hoping that Light could update for famous spreadsheet or even the PA team could make a tick planner as an extra.
I'll pick for example cathaar and 2 possible starts which are often refered to Cruiser rush (using paid bonus) and Corvette eta rush on 300 roids. I'm Now saying if you are new do this but will explain how to tick plan
You have 10000 research points and 6300 construction Units.
Cruiser Rush.
Goto Start up Bonus and on
Research.
Use 1200 for HCT 1
Use 1600 for HCT 2 (you can now mine 300 roids without losses)
Use 2400 for Hulls 1
Use 4800 for Hulls 2
Start Hulls 3 research.
Construction
Use 5250 on crystal refineries. (7 refineries need this for crystal stagger for buying ships)
Use 1000 On heavy Factories. (2 Heavy Factories)
Queue 3rd heavy factory and can use the extra 50 con units or spend them.
Need a minium of 4 factories to get prod out for pt24.
Take into factors like Population and Government type.
see
http://game.planetarion.com/manual.pl?page=formulae for the formulas.
Lets take Demo Cathaar on 50% pop on research, 25% on construction,25% mining with no res labs.
Current research output: 238 Research Points/tick
RP Output = base_output *(1+(%research_labs + population bonus + government bonus)/100)
Current construction output: 113 Construction Units/tick
Construction Output = base_output*(1+(government bonus+population bonus)/100)
Mining is
100 25,000 1,000 6,500 (25%) 32,500
100 25,000 8,700 8,425 (25%) 42,125
100 25,000 1,000 6,500 (25%) 32,500
after initing roids etc.
Metal 1,335,000 ish
Crystal 1,335,000 ish
Eonium 1,335,000 ish
At tick 24 it takes you to...
Metal 2,115,000 ish
Crystal 2,346,000 ish
Eonium 2,115,000 ish
(Might be about 10-15k of each less when you take off additional constructions/factories etc)
Should give a nice crystal stagger when buying cr ships for first attack.
when to pop the paid bonus for hulls 3.
7200 rp for hulls 3
238 rp a tick
30.2521 ---> 31 turns
7200 - (238 x 30turns) = 60 then 238-60 = 178 rp carries over to next research.
Buy the time you get cr built it will be in the day time.
So when to use the paid bonus?
Research Point Bonus:
4000 + 0 * 24 = 4000 Research Points
With a bit of trial and error ... On tick 13.
(Hulls 3 rp cost - paid bonus then devide by rp rate)
7200 - 4000 then /238 = 13.44 ---> round it to 13.
(hulls3 - turns x research rate) = used research points at tick 13
7200 - (13 x 238 = 3094) = 4106
(Paid bonus at pt13)
4000 + 13 * 24 = 4312
Take away difference.
4312 - 4106 = 206 r/p carries over to next research.
On tick 13 start Cr construction and go roach heavy.
will need 4 factories to get prod out before protection.
Corvette Eta Rush.
same roid count
Research
Use 1200 for HCT 1
Use 1600 for HCT 2 (you can now mine 300 roids without losses)
Use 2400 for Hulls 1
Use 1600 for Jumpgate aka tt-1
Use 3200 for Warpgate aka tt-2
Construction
Use 5250 on crystal refineries. (7 refineries need this for crystal stagger for buying ships)
Use 1000 On light factories.. only need 2 light facts to start prod at pt 0 to get prod out.
to work out
For demo cath 50% pop and no res labs
Stargate research cost % Research Points/tick for planet.
4800 / 238 = 20.16 --> 21 ticks.
to work out another government work out the research rate as most folk tend to go corp goverment for maxium value growth.
For corp gov at 50% pop on research no research labs.
4800 / 171 = 28.07 --> 29 ticks
Build at least 2 med facts and keep paid bonus in reserve should you get hulls 3 incoming.