New hope only worked because it was dumb vs dumber. If the steam wipe would have happened it would have took Joke and maybe five other corporations another six weeks at most to have exactly the same stuff.
The only reason new corps can't do that is they are capitalist pigdogs and lack the cohesion.
In four or five weeks joke corp research went from zero to 80%. If you factor in that corp research is ten times an individual we could have finished an individual in a month.
The hardest part is waiting for the proto timers. I remember argano hauling and having such a surpless of minerals we not only prototyped the first termis in the game but did four at once.
I think the true early access people that play are probably less than ten. Your all filthy casuals :-)
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