Cybernetic Consciousness and early SE choices

[Yitzi]

Oh, and I tested some stuff, and there's at least one situation in which that link is wrong.  Attacking from a base with a children's creche gives the same bonuses as defending such a base.

And yes, it does appear that having a worse Morale rating gives a slight advantage when defending (or attacking from) bases with creches with units built by bases with creches...but that's a pretty limited advantage, as the creche can be destroyed by probe teams, and it won't really help you stop them from just staying 2 spaces away from your base and destroying your infrastructure.

[Kirov]

Because Earthmichael is very experienced playing in games where going for AAA will mean he'll get to D:AP as soon as (or even before) you get AAA, and then he can use needlejets for ZoC and stacking and terraforming destruction to beat you.  If you don't need D:AP to counter D:AP (my proposed fix), then AAA as a counter to air power becomes a lot more appealing.
Experience can tell what happens, not what will happen after a given modification.  For that, you need theory.

Well, as the saying goes: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."

But really, I'm going to state here what is probably like the most obvious thing in the world - you can't tell how much experience is important if you don't have experience yourself. And yes, I believe you do need exp to tell what will happen, because to tell what will happen it is necessary to know what happens right now. It's really simple - if you introduce a certain change to an environment, you won't be able to properly predict the post-change milieu if you don't know how it looks pre-change.

This and theory, of course. Theory is also quite useful.

[Yitzi]

Well, as the saying goes: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."

When there's a difference between theory and practice, that just means your theory is missing something.  In order to figure out the effects of a change, you therefore need to fix your theory, adn then reapply it.

But really, I'm going to state here what is probably like the most obvious thing in the world - you can't tell how much experience is important if you don't have experience yourself. And yes, I believe you do need exp to tell what will happen, because to tell what will happen it is necessary to know what happens right now. It's really simple - if you introduce a certain change to an environment, you won't be able to properly predict the post-change milieu if you don't know how it looks pre-change.

Which is why I listen carefully to how people describe what happens pre-change, and when it diverges from theory I try to understand why it diverges from theory and revise my theory accordingly.