I find it distressing....

Spyder · #1 March 13th, 2001, 06:41 PM

I set those numbers (I think) up to 100%...but, how to use those settings are much less than clear to me...I posted a question about them below.

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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

AJC · #2 March 15th, 2001, 02:17 AM

2 shield generators on a dreadnought?! I have been in several huge fleet engagements and I know from my own experience that dreadnoughts with 2 shield generators would never survive. Especially against a human opponent.

When I build a dreadnought - it has at least 1500 points in phased shields, usually more...

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Puke · #3 March 15th, 2001, 02:48 AM

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Originally posted by AJC:
2 shield generators on a dreadnought?! I have been in several huge fleet engagements and I know from my own experience that dreadnoughts with 2 shield generators would never survive. Especially against a human opponent.

When I build a dreadnought - it has at least 1500 points in phased shields, usually more...

[This message has been edited by AJC (edited 15 March 2001).]

I hear that.. my CRs and BCs usually have 3 phased shield generators, that makes for about 1000 points at max levels. A DN should have about 5 generators to protect such a costly asset.

geoschmo · #4 March 15th, 2001, 02:51 AM

This reminds me of when I first got SEIII. The first time I researched Point defense cannons I thought "Look at that range, look at that damage. I am going to kick some serious butt now"

Built me a fleet of a dozen or so destroyers loaded with PDC... and nothing else.

The first enemy fleet I ran across had a couple of destroyers with a handful of frigates with measly old Meson BLasters and Anti-proton beams. "Humph, I thought, I don't even need to bother fighting this one in Tactical mode"

Boy was I confused watching all those little blips flying around, and all my little blips kept going out...

That's when I went back and actually read the weapons description. "Only targets seekers" What's a seeker? Boy was I confused.

Instar · #5 March 15th, 2001, 04:19 AM

Spyder: Use more shields! Heck I put two shields on one fighter as it is!

Spyder · #6 March 15th, 2001, 03:16 PM

Heh...my FAS (Fast Attack Ships) don't even have shields. I DID go back and added one more shield generator to each design (except FAS) and removed all the extra solar sails I had stacked in there for movement (found out that they don't stack

). On the FAS I added more guns

. The FAS start out as destroyer class ships and are now Cruiser class.

I have two flotillas now, one fighting the blue guys and one fighting the yellow guys. Both flotillas have 100+ ships, although, I just fought a major battle with the yellow guys (the ones with the Organic Tech tree) and that Fleet is currently being reinforced...he had two fleets of 18 Battleship class ships, I won both engagements, but my Fleet was dropped to about 30, of which 15 were support ships

.

I have nothing smaller than cruiser class in any of my fleets. My missile ships & FAS are both Cruiser class. I am winning. I am stealing about 70000 of each resource each turn and my enemies are running out

I am pumping almost a million points into Intelligence.

This has been my most challenging game so far and I haven't installed the 1.30 upgrade yet (want to finish this game first). I don't think that either of my foes are the number one empire. The turn counter tells me that I have 20 foes out there (I killed two upstart races already). Foe #5 takes a very long time for his turn

I'm looking forward to meeting him.

By the way, part of the Arachnid traits is a -10% to ship attack & defense. I think this definitely contributed to my getting blown away in my first combat.

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