[Taqwus]

You should probably be able to find out what weapons were being used by checking the 'enemy design' section of your ship designer. Pick enemy ship, start right-clicking on components. Do this in combat, as well -- if there's a ship class you've never seen before, you *really* want to know things like weapon range and so forth. You might actually want to build ships with long-range scanners if you've not fought that race before.

Likewise, as soon as you achieve First Contact with a race, check their racial characteristics. If they have a special trait like psychic, crystalline, etc, you'll really, really want to know ASAP, in case things sour...

You might want to leaf through the .txt files (Data/Components.txt, IIRC) as well, if you don't feel that's spoilerish. Weapon capabilities, prequisites, etc, everything's in text (except for the .BMPs of course).


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