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Has ANYONE ever used the "Worm Hole" weapon? that one I wealy see no use for...now IF it moved one to a different part of the system and OUT of combat that would be very usefull (my $0.02)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sure. Very usefull weapon. Check out weapon platforms of Master Belizarious' AI. Engine killer + WH beam. Any ship attacking such planet will end up motionless in the corner http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Tractor beam + Ripper Beams + many Wormhole Beams = one tough customer.

Reel in the nearest ship, pound it to dust, and then scatter all its friends to the far corners of the combat map...

Even having a pure-wormhole beam support ship would be excellent.

With wormhole beams, you don't have to fight fair http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Instead, you get to fight the ships in ones and twos as they fly back from wherever they were flung.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">deccan: Please upload the text file to the uploads section and post the link in this thread and I will put the link into the FAQ. Thanks for taking the effort.

Slick.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It wasn't much of an effort http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
At work now, so I don't have the text file. I'll do it if no one else does it by tonight (my time).

Hmm, so many weapons to play with, so little time...

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deccan's scaring me!

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Here it is:

1054819708.txt

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A couple of questions:

1) On the Scores screen, does the Intel Point and Research Point count include racial bonuses or exclude them? I'm wondering because I'm playing a high research bonus race and I found that I had a far lower RP count than most other races, but a far higher tech level count.

2) In Proportions, I just began a game with a race that took the restricted storage space thingy so my homeworld had a max population of 1600 m. However it still started with 2000 m pop? Shouldn't those guys be automatically killed off for lack of living space?

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I take back what I said about PD being too powerful. Now my PD-packed ships can't hit fighters. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeap, use point-defence beams for anti-fighter ships and PDC against missiles. It's quite complex in Proportions http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif