Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull

Taera · #1 July 26th, 2003, 08:20 AM

well yes, but you can use better remote extraction, cheaper bases and cheaper defenses.

Fyron · #2 July 26th, 2003, 09:05 AM

You can not get the better remote mining in those asteroid ring systems though.

Cheaper bases is again all defensive, which was TC's point.

Taera · #3 July 26th, 2003, 10:15 AM

what about repair & construction bases?? those are defensive?? a BSY draws ~500 mins. if you have a lot of these, a 30% reduction would help.

Arkcon · #4 July 27th, 2003, 01:00 AM

Remember, the armor skipping weapons make orgainc's best defence -- the organic armor -- a complete non-issue. Forge an alliance with religious and psychic allies on that basis if organic players join.

Loser · #5 July 26th, 2003, 06:51 PM

And use Shielded Fighters heavily in system defensive planning. The Shield adding Facility does wonders for Fighter Stacks.

Taera · #6 July 27th, 2003, 08:54 PM

phased weapons. that does it.

Karibu · #7 July 27th, 2003, 10:10 PM

You get best crystal armor near mid game. By then you use battle cruisers and cruisers mostly. I made some testing with Crystal armor and weapons few months ago. If you put 11 crystal armor and one (phased)shield in a ship, no weapon which makes under 150 damage can harm that ship. For any ship size of battleship or smaller, you must have either Shatter beam or null space weapon to make any damage into ship using crystal armor.

I have personally destroyed 30 enemy battleships with one battleship using crystal armor. Enemy had talisman, so they hit every shot...

It would take some time to explain it and I don't bother to do that now. You can see that by yourself with battle simulator.

So it gives you considerable adwantage early on, but its effectiveness vanishes when your opponent start using baseships and Massive mount guns. Also, against other crystal race, this armor is worthless.