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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Perhaps you should test based on equal costs of ships on each side, rather than just equal tonnage of weapons? Give each side as many ships as they can build for 200,000 resources (total), for example.

I used 1,000,000 resources as the base:

If you include all resources, then the torps win 4 out of 5 times (44 PPB ships vs 56 Torp ships).

If you just compare mineral costs, then PPB ships win most of the time (60 PPB ships vs 63 Torp ships).

Question is, then, how much the Rads cost hold up your ship production. Although also important: you might be able to build a decent torp ship one turn quicker than a decent PPB ship just based on the mineral difference (for my tests, PPBs ship cost 17,550 and Torp ships cost 15800. At that point in the game, my shipyards are usually building at about 4500, so the likely answer for me is no...)

Torps did better than I thought they would, but I still think they could use a boost, especially if you factor in their research cost...