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Old March 31st, 2001, 10:24 PM
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Default Re: Point Def. too tough against missiles-change it.

Another thought:

- make PDC have range 1 .. this way they'll only protect the ship they're mounted on, any maybe a neighbouring ship. With enough missiles you could still flood the defences and do some serious damage .. but you'll only be able to do this every 3 turns ..

- make PDM which have range 5..8, and reload time of 2; tell the AI to build "Aegis Cruisers"

Have tested this setup with the Olesen Techset in SE3, and it worked quite well !!

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