[brianeyci]

Very cool Aslama. I wonder how you got the formatting so nice... when I tried to get an exported tech tree from in the game, all I got was gibberish (the spacing wasn't correct)... did you make this file yourself?

I wonder if you have a weapons report txt (stock) file in a format that lists all the possible weapons along with their dmg/kT, and their relative research costs.

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I tried doing this to compare torpedos with depleted uranium cannons (I know this is an old topic, but I wanted to confirm the crappiness of torpedos myself), to see whether there would be any advantage at all with using torpedoes... in a game with a large starting bonus ie 100K, I thought the high cost of researching military science to get torpedos would be offset if you went early PD's. I thought maybe going to torpedos III or IV would work better than going to DUC V, given that going early PD's means you research military science early anyway.

And, lo and behold, torpedos suck in every way except in mineral usage... RF of 2, lower dmg/KT compared with research costs even when subtracting 50K research by going early PD's with a 100K research start, and 30 KT compared to 40 KT space.

If there was some txt file, I could avoid doing this for all the weapons... I saw one in some thread somewhere comparing kT/dmg and phased particle beams had one of the highest/if not the highest... unfortunately I think the link was in the "new players" sticky and its fuked now... I want to avoid using these seemingly "cheap" weapons if there is a competitive way to do so lol... I seem to remember reading somewhere that APB's are better in the long run, although I don't remember how "long" in the run, somewhere along the lines of half a million research points lol... maybe PPB's are the only way to go with short-med length games...

Brian