Jimen wrote:QUOTE (Jimen @ Jan 25 2010, 01:07 PM) The aim, summarized most succinctly, is to defend your miners and destroy their miners. Bases are a secondary objective, in that how easy or hard it is to defend/attack miners is mainly determined by who has which bases where. And since bases can't be destroyed without using a bomber, it's best to accomplish that by attacking/defending constructors rather than bases.
Icky wrote:QUOTE (Icky @ Jan 25 2010, 01:57 PM) Actual literal goal is to destroy or capture all of the enemy's large bases (garrison and tech bases).
Jimen, you can't win the game by killing all their miners. It just makes it MUUUUCH easier.
For any newbies who see this:
Allegiance occurs in pretty much these stages:
1) Expansion
The goal here is to take sectors so it's harder for the enemy to get to your miners, and conversely to make it easy for you to get to their miners.
2) Teching up
The goal here is to earn money to get end-game tech
3) End game
The goal here is to blow up everything.
Typically you want to get to stage 3 asap while stopping the enemy from getting to stage 3. But that means that if you can trade, say, 30 billion full miners for the enemy's last techbase, you trade your 30 billion full miners because winning is all that matters. Points don't matter, miner kills don't matter, all that really matters is blowing their last techbase before they blow yours.
Other than that, though, Jimen is right: being able to blow your enemy's techbase is usually reliant on mining.
(yes, I'm +1ing Icky)
soon.
