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Originally posted by desdinova:
which thread is going to be used. Game Styles or Newbie has Questions. its a little confusing reading from one then jumping to the other about the same thing.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Why do things easy when you can make them so beatifully complicated?

I don't put solar panels on the colony ships either but go for long range explorers so I can make more trade and research alliances.

As Game style I try to play role-playing, usually very strict obiding by my treaties.
If I dislike my allies and like my enemies that doesn't change the treaties, then I'll kill those I like and give all my tech to those I dislike.

I'm another roleplayer. If I'm playing a trusting, pacifistic race, I don't do any weapons research or arm any ships until I find evidence of hostile aliens' existence.

An aggressive, paranoid race will arm almost anything that a weapon will fit on, and start researching Applied Intelligence at First Contact.

[ November 26, 2002, 19:15: Message edited by: capnq ]

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Originally posted by desdinova:
[QB]i select the organic racial trait and make a priority of researching organic technology for the organic armor and organic weapons. i have noticed that the organic weapons are better than the initial weapons the ai uses (better range and damage.) the advantage from the organic armor and weapons is enough to let me lag behind on ship size. i can remain 1-2 sizes smaller and still win in combat initially. after that i try to get the monolith.[QB]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, DUC Vs are cheaper than Organic Weapons, and stronger than most levels of them.

Depleted Uranium Cannon V (Projectile Weapons 5)
Tonnage Space Taken := 30
Weapon Damage At Rng := 40 40 40 40 40 0

Hyper - Plasma Bolt III (Organic Weapons 6)
Tonnage Space Taken := 30
Weapon Damage At Rng := 40 35 30 30 30 25 0

Hyper - Plasma Bolt III (Organic Weapons 8)
Tonnage Space Taken := 30
Weapon Damage At Rng := 45 40 35 35 35 30 25 0

Lightning Ray I (Organic Weapons 4)
Tonnage Space Taken := 20
Weapon Damage At Rng := 30 30 20 20 10 10 0

Lightning Ray I (Organic Weapons 6)
Tonnage Space Taken := 20
Weapon Damage At Rng := 40 40 30 30 20 20 10 10 0

Phased - Polaron Beam V (Phased Energy Weapons 5)
Tonnage Space Taken := 30
Weapon Damage At Rng := 60 55 55 55 50 50 0

Organic Weapons costs a lot more to research than Projectile Weapons and Phased Energy Weapons (even with Physics 2 as a tech req).

Plasma Charges are almost never better than DUCs, except with a little more range, but much less damage. Electric Discharges (for much more research) are stronger at short range, but much weaker at longer ranges. Then when you through in the PPBs, which cost fewer research points than Organic Weapons 5 or so, the Organic weapons can't even compare to them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Personally, I never research Organic Weapons past level 3, for the Troop EDs. Sure they cost organics instead of Minerals, and that lowers build time of the ship by a turn. But they are much weaker in combat. To me, this isn't worth.

I think the other "advantage" to organics weapons is that you get several different kinds of weapons quickly; low damage reload 1's; higher damage reload 2's; and seekers that do more dmg/kt/turn than CSMs--all for 1 tech area which is cheaper than, say, PPB+torps+missiles. Which only would be an advantage in very early game, due to the power of PDC. Now, give EDs 2x to shields, and they might be a little more appealing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[quote]Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Sure they cost organics instead of Minerals, and that lowers build time of the ship by a turn. But they are much weaker in combat. To me, this isn't worth.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If it lowers the Build Time from 2 turns to 1, I'd have to disagree with you there... Even 3 turns to 2 would be worthwhile.
And really, if you are spending more than 2 turns to build any Organic ship, you probably shouldn't have taken Organic Tech to begin with...

-Spoon

The organic resource thing is a huge advantage (not just for reduced build time, although that is a big advantage), as are the multiple weapons in one tech area. The acid weapons have the advantage of being able to nail units (which most torpedoes can't), and the parasite reload rate of 2 can keep them effective even in late-game, particularly when used in combined arms deployments with fighters and drones and direct-fire warships.

It's true that other weapons achieve better damage per weapon. So, organic is not the one uber trait, but their weapons are definitely a valid and effective choice.

PvK

Those multiple weapons come at a ridiculously high research cost. Acid weapons (like torpedoes) have too small of a damage ratio to really be useful. You can max out DUCs before getting 2 levels in Organic Weapons (except maybe on high tech cost). As I showed earlier, it take a lot of levels of Organic Weapons to get them to be as strong as DUCs. But by the time you have spent that much research, you could have maxed out PPBs (as well as researching plenty of other stuff). PPBs are stronger than all organic weapons. They only suffer from the slightly lower range at the highest levels of Organic Weapons (which cost a ludicrous amount of research).

The different kinds of weapons quickly doesn't matter too much, really, because most of them are useless compared to the other Organic weapons. Researching many levels in Missiles is generally a bad idea, as PDCs easily overwhelm missiles. So, the fact that you get beams and parasites from 1 tech area doesn't really give too much benefit.

Spoon, I assume that you are implying the use of retro-series builds there, and discounting BSYs. DUC and PPB ships can be retro-series built just as easily as Organic ships can. Sure you can build them faster, but pound-for-pound, they do not match up to normal ships in combat.

Its nice arguing against multiple people at once. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Spoon, I assume that you are implying the use of retro-series builds there, and discounting BSYs. DUC and PPB ships can be retro-series built just as easily as Organic ships can. Sure you can build them faster, but pound-for-pound, they do not match up to normal ships in combat.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Handeled correctly, an organic race can build ships roughly twice as fast as an otherwise identical non-organic race without doing any sort of retrofit series stuff. And you can support more in maintenance. Yes it may be true that you lost 3 ships for every 2 the other guy loses, but when you can build 2 or 3 for every one he can, it's very easy to overwhelm them.

It doesn't matter how many ships each of you loses, it only matters who runs out first. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

That being said, the organic race alone is definetly not an uber-race.

Geoschmo

And just how would you handle building ships twice as quickly, while still maintaining all those vital components that cost only minerals?