[Stone Mill]

Originally Posted by Pablo
Stoney, very good articles! Thanx
If you don't mind (I think you don't 'cause you are a teacher in this field and every teacher wants to be usefull for as many as posible) I have copied these articles into Lithuanian forum (which was only recently started) to spread the word and help our players. I bet not all of them even know about the Shrapnel forum. Anyway, I would appreciate your feedback on letting us keep them or take them out and come here for reading. Thanx.

*I remember my in our koth game when loosing colony ships on empty planets yet mined. I even lost the count of how many...

No problem at all, sir. I would recommend the entire Newbie FAQ, which will be the home for these articles after development in this thread.

Who mined those planets? Little ‘ol me? Funny, it seems like my current opponents do a better job of doing this than me. I keep changing my tactics so as not to be predictable. Lately, in the early game, I have been dropping satellites everywhere… just to mix it up.

Originally Posted by Imperator Fyron
That's easy SM. Use DUCs, then PPBs (and maybe shield depleters if opponents get phased shields and you don't have APBs), then APBs + SDepleters. And always use IDs. Most other weapons are useless for general ship design (except computer viruses and a few racial weapons that are comparable to the DUC/PPB/APB line). MBs are nice, but are overpowerd by PPBs, and way overpowered by later APBs.

This is a good “nutshell.” Thanks. I hope to have most of this indexed in the article. You’ll see I’m trying to come up with a decent format for reference.