guys you can actually get 100% so stop saying differently

you can have 100%

con science means you can build x% MORE with your stuff, meaning that the price to buy a unit for instance is [Original price]/ (1+[con science])

100% con science means half price

i know that leader, he is a real man!

I applaud the effort, just two points i have:

1. Make it count for ops aswell as attacking

2. Be braver, make it 50% to toss it up abit, the difference between 35% and 40% will only affect a few cases a round

haah this is Lee at his finest lol

thats the amount of time lee has been saving before he cancelled

Its all a mindgame and highly dependant on your situation.

Some rounds i get away with no lasers, some rounds i need many paired with agents, always review your diplo situation is my advice. But always keep in mind that eventually lasers will get useless, so try not to get tooo many

this round was a complete fail

POp in itself is better and more profitable, but it cannot be forced and hurried like this, it loses its profitability

Well nandro that is a different story but yes i agree, the point is that if you just delay your poppers mayvbe 3-4 days more than what einstein is sugesting, its just much better than this boosting jump

I see alot of interesting points in this thread, but i also feel that that main point here is being missed.

The error here isnt in Flint pop numbers necisarily, but like Dragonsup and zidi pointed out, its simply the point that CF start is faster. This is mainly due to the faster reinvestment that you get with CFs.

Flint has been gone from the game for a few years and seems to have missed that such starts were actually attempted earlier. Its a good idea and all that, but its simply and sadly just not the best way the way the game is balanced at the moment.

For most of the real strategists in the game atm this is just evident my the last rounds, but it would also be proved through numbers if we bothered to write them up in excel.

A low OB CF bankers can transition so easily into popper later that you simply should not pay the penalty of slow growth early to facilitiate your later pop, that will be no problem anyways.