Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

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680 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes ago

Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

Horwasp question:
I've been playing as Horwasp recently, and I have a question: what is the point of "resting" your workers, exactly? Are there many situations where this is going to happen?

I can think, if you don't want to produce minerals because you think the enemy will conquer it soon, then you make your workers inactive.

Any other reason, besides having no tasks to do? (Population at max, burrows built, minerals depleted and planet terraformed)

680 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes ago

RE: Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

Now that I think about it, I suppose you could use the resting technique as a way to overpopulate a planet, so that it has better ground defense, or to use as a reserve of population...

680 days, 13 hours, 21 minutes ago

azcheron

RE: Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

Whats it like to play horwasp?

680 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes ago

RE: Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

@Azcheron, the first time I played I had no idea what I was doing and it was totally alien and puzzling.
It's a bit easier in Alpha version 0.2 because the planets sort of auto-manage now. So you don't have to worry about accidentally killing off all the natives, or worrying that your planets are not doing the right thing. They will automatically grow their population until in a balance with the natives, which they feed off.
After they are in that equilibrium with their population, they will convert to burrowing (planet defenses--doesnt take long), and then finally to mining with all their workforce. It really simplifies management of a lot of planets, since you know the default thing is probably OK.

Now that I have a better idea of how they work, they're actually a lot of fun. Version 0.2 is different now, they have more ships (they used to have mostly only pods).
I think it helped playing against them to learn how to play them well. But also, if you know how to play them, it's much, much easier to play again.

I've started playing blitz games to learn them better. (You can join if you want! :) )
I'm quite enjoying them so far.

680 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes ago

azcheron

RE: Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

Don't mind if I do! :D

Though this'll be my first Wasp fight so I'm expecting to be stomped haha

680 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes ago

RE: Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

@Psydev,

> what is the point of "resting" your workers, exactly?

Resting workers consume fewer natives.

> I suppose you could use the resting technique as a way to overpopulate a planet

Correct.

680 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes ago

blackpooldragon

RE: Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

Ah! I did not know about the Automanagement. How does this work? This might answer my question in another thread. (Case of the Inedible Gipsoidals.)

Does this mean that moving your natives around is no longer an option for the Horwasp?

680 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes ago

RE: Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

Part of the reason I ask is that your resting workers automatically go to work again the next turn, so if you want to keep them idle, you have to click to make them idle every turn.
With that in mind, it seemed like resting had no real intention/purpose.

680 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes ago

RE: Horwasp question: I've been playing as Horwasp recently,...

@Psydev,

> your resting workers automatically go to work again the next turn

I believe that's due to the auto-allocator. You can disable this on a planet-by=planet basis.