04/12/2008 · 08:20 AM
#11
here is my experiance of digging with all races, best to worst:
Guard
Terran
Miner
Viral
Maru
Collective (this one isn`t 100% sure due to not proper testing)
Results may vary as I tend to dig on low land oceanics rather than low land spaz`s.
The general consencus is race difficulty with a leaning towards guards (due to population as that DOES slightly impact on digging by a small amount)
My thoughts on why guard have higher innate chance:
Inability to raise loyalty (the act of raising loyalty gives a slight boost to dig chance, not actual loyalty amount). Due to this guard get a hard coded boost that assists them in digging, which makes them better than almost all when coupled with the generally higher pop (tax miners have a near the same ability to find also, tax viral don`t due to 2 pop on spazes and oceanics, infecting the oceanic ruins it`s dig odds)
I could go on butr I can`t be bothered.