Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

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.

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

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

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

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.

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

phased weapons. that does it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

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.

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

In Devnull Mod Crytalline tech has been beefed up a bit. IIRC the wepaons are a bit better and also you get splinter armor. It gives you very efficient ablative type armor in the early game that even fuels your shields.

And there are the crossover techs, of course. If you take a second race trait you get unique stuff like harmonic shields (very high regeneration), biocrystal armor, or chant crystals (that skip ALL shields).

Rollo

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

chant crystal is very evil thing, ive already taken a look at the cross-techs.

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I wass just told, in another thread, that shield skipping weapons do not skip the shields on Fighters!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">So that's encouraging.

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Once you research phased shields, CA will work against PPB as well. Units' shields can not be skipped. Even by null-space weapons. Energy transmission lens is fighters best friend http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Crystallurgy - in general and in DevNull
 

The Energy Dampener is one of the most powerful weapons in the game. One hit = one disabled enemy ship, especially mounted. Unlike the Psychic Mental Flailer, it isn't blocked by Master Computers, either.

PvK