Re: Re: New Player

on 3/31/04 3:28 PM, Doug Moebus wrote:

> So the next question from me is how do you balance the money spent between
> planets? All I have been doing is keeping all planets to a minimum amount but
> I know I am missing something.
> 
The biggest money sink in Ho! is maintaining unprofitable planets. So the
goal is to keep a planet in its ³unprofitable state² for a minimum amount of
time. 

If you are strip mining the metal off a planet that is totally inhospitable
for you gravity-wise or whose temperature is so bad that you can¹t afford to
terraform it, then the goal is to get in, get the metal, and abandon the
planet as quickly as possible.

If you have a planet that has a good gravity but which is not terraformed
enough to get to baby boom population expansion yet, then the goal is to get
to the baby boom as quickly as possible. Once you¹ve reached baby boom
status, you can take your time finishing the planet up.

In general, I suggest never maintaining more than about 1 unprofitable
planet for every profitable planet you have (otherwise you won¹t have enough
money on top of the maintenance cost to do the stuff you want to do with any
speed).

Hope this helps,

Peter

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Peter Commons
President
Commonsense Software, Inc.