Dec 12th 2012, 11:34:30
Originally posted by Bambam24:
Xinhuan the great I appreciate your advice. I will keep it farmer. After reading the wiki pages on governemnts it appears republic would be the best way to go to farm. If i wanted to build FARM TECH do i need to build labs before I build farms? that dosn't make sense what percentage % of my land would you reccomend i devote to labs?
You don't build labs! There are generally 2 ways for this
Method A) Farm start -> Farmer
You start building farms from the start right away, and use whatever remainder cash you have at the end of each day to buy more Agri tech from the public market. (Don't overspend on buying units and grabbing/building too much land). You want to grow your Agri tech% by maybe 3% or more everyday.
Method B) Tech start -> Farmer
This is a bit more complicated. Generally, you would build an initial 200-300 (indy+farm) which would generate enough cash for you to explore and build another 1.6k labs (so you reach 1920 acres in total) at 40 BPT.
Then you spend ~100 turns teching mainly agri, and some bus/res/weapons. Then you tear down all your labs, and rebuild them all into farms. At this point, you're 90% farms, 5% indies (for making spies) and 5% CS, and you're a farmer with a good initial tech base.
Then everyday just buy enough tech to maintain the tech%, because the additional production gained from having the tech generates the money to buy more tech to maintain the same tech %.