Apr 30th 2011, 15:35:30
I think you may have been spending your turns cashing maybe? 7K acres after a complete set in primary seems a little light in the land department.
Just as a comparison, in team after 1800/turns, I have 16K acres, mostly from exploring as a fascism. You have 1500 turns taken and only 7k acres. Deciding when the switch from exploring to cashing I think mostly depends on how your specific country is going. However, most time should be spent exploring, and you really should not cash until near the end of the set when the 20% more income from cashing outweighs the benefit from getting the extra land from exploring.
As well, you have lots of troops, maybe a little too many. Personally, im not a huge fan of troops and pool most money into jets and turrets, basically because troops cost a lot of $$ to maintain. Tanks and troops are basically for defence, to deter people from AB'ing YOU!
All in all, I think the comments from the industrial sites is good advice. You should notice the cash/turn increase as the industrials are decreased. That would be because the enterprise zones you have built are more effective as more % of total land is covered in them. Hence the recommended 50/50 split between ent/res.
I think for a new casher you are going great. You got your BPT up high, good techs, if not on the high side (max is 180%, but it takes a huge amount of tech points/$ to get it there) You probably would have got a bigger bang for your money by saving the money you spent on the technology to get it to 179%, but, you got the right concept!
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