The early-early ff rush is a double-edged sword, because you sacrifice the W1 tech for the sake of quick ffs. I think it's a bit like the 4pool rush in the original game - if it works, you've won, if it doesn't, you're either screwed right away or at best setback. Thus, if you implement a successful counter-measure (2 ions that we spoke of earlier should do IMO) then the strategy will no longer be viable and we'll probably resort to Dracontainment (haha, I am building a strategy even before it's needed
) for starters and then push to Embars. This will still be a piece of cake in v1 AI games, so v2 AIs (v3 AIs?) games is what I really look forwards to.
As for the difficulty-bitching...keep in mind that I fully agree with what Shadow said once: "If the game seems too hard for you - you're not trying hard enough!".
I think that with the demise of Maplantis the modding has suffered a hard blow anyways, so I guess Aga won't mind if you do what you want
