I'm currently playing in a fairly empty galaxy, and I'm playing a research and construction focussed empire... Basically so I'd get a chance to do a fair bit of tech exploration.
As for getting spanked by "less advanced" ships, well, not all of the new stuff you can generate is inherently better than the stuff you generally start with (if you're doing quickstart or started with fairly normal weapon tech). In fact, quite a lot of it is worse, but cheaper or lighter on the ammo. Some of it's also pretty handy against specific things. The nasty weapons I mentioned that I've developed also didn't come out of the standard weapons research trees... I think it came from one of the higher end engine research trees.
As for the warp gate defence thing - wormholes are good places to make a stand as ships don't come through them very quick... But if you want to mash somebody on the far side, you can create drones and send them through first. They'll auto-target on the far side and pummel the ships a bit.
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2007-04-02 18:04 (UTC)As for getting spanked by "less advanced" ships, well, not all of the new stuff you can generate is inherently better than the stuff you generally start with (if you're doing quickstart or started with fairly normal weapon tech). In fact, quite a lot of it is worse, but cheaper or lighter on the ammo. Some of it's also pretty handy against specific things. The nasty weapons I mentioned that I've developed also didn't come out of the standard weapons research trees... I think it came from one of the higher end engine research trees.
As for the warp gate defence thing - wormholes are good places to make a stand as ships don't come through them very quick... But if you want to mash somebody on the far side, you can create drones and send them through first. They'll auto-target on the far side and pummel the ships a bit.