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.
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