Technology Tree Overwhelming

[Mudshark]

Try this link http://home.earthlink.net/~petemmer/research.html .
I copied a tech tree from a zipped .txt file from Andrés Lescano. the tech. tree is near the bottom, and is very complete. I know that Andrés spent more than a few hours on this.

[Andrés]

Here's a link to my tech tree (now it includes drones)
Tree

[ButSam]

Excuse me for being totally naive, but how do you capture ships? I just keep destroying them.

[TerranC]

1. Build a ship with at least one boarding party component.

*you might want to include Sheild draining weapons if you can*

2a. Set the ship strategy to capture enemy ships, send it to the nearest enemy ship and engage Strategic Combat.

2b. send your ship to the nearest enemy ship and engage tactical combat.

*If your boarding ship has no weapons whatsoever, it's best to send in an escort ship that can drain sheilds fast*

3b. after the shields on the enemy ships are at 0 *or no more blue bars left on the enemy ship* move your boarding ship as close as you can to the enemy ship.

4b. if you have at least one point of movement left, click ship orders and click Capture ship.

5. enjoy your newly captured ship by analysing it, scrapping it, retrofitting it, or repair it and use it against your enemy by sending it to the nearest space yards.

[Suicide Junkie]

Edit to 4b: You do not need movement remaining. You just need to be beside the ship, and have intact boarding parties.

[Mudshark]

Andrés do you mind if I add your latest to my site? for that matter is it OK that I added your previous work? It is not my intention to take credit from other peoples work, just to help out with new players.
I will of course remove with no hard feelings. I just hope I did not cause you any discomfort by posting without asking!

By copy this goes to the rest of the forum as well!

[Kin-Chan]

Wow, after all that playing, I have finally finished a game. Unfortunately, it was finished by the Eee as their heavily shielding dreadnaughts crushed me to goo.

Is there any easy way to deal with the shields? I couldn't find any shield piercing weapons, and I could never do enough damage (even with my entire fleet amassed at my homeworld) to stop their dreadnaughts, or even to kill one.

Most of the ships I use were outfitted with that living armor thing.. I forget the name, and some seeker parasite thing, as well as some acid attack.