[UseOfWeps]

Originally posted by spoon:
Another factor that might make the PPB seem so amazing in your group is "groupthink" -- since everyone is using it, esp the winner, it appears that it is the only weapon worth using.

In my current 6 player game, 3 folk are basically out currently, at turn 52. The other 3 of us are pretty even, one guy is no racial tech using PPBs, one guy is organics and I'm religious with APBs, currently at APB7. Once I finish up my combat techs over the next few turns, I should be rolling out battlecruisers with a 2-square range advantage over the PPB ships, and using a custom strategy of max range/ nearestx4 I hope to be able to pick off the PPB ships from distance.

I had said to the guys at the beginning of the game that I thought PPBs were too cheap and I wouldn't be using them, but one of the other guys doesn't have my scruples. So I intend to show him the error of his ways. My post about balancing the PPBs were more from the angle of the strange damage increases rather than the cheapness of the research, but obviously it has a nice side effect of adding a couple hundred k to the cost to max PPBs. I think I'll make these changes in our next game - now that all of us are more at home with the game I think the other guys will see my point.

/UseOfWeps.