[mac5732]

I usually always play temporal. I like it the best of the techs. The time distortion i use a lot. They are good not only against ships but against ftrs, sats & planets as well. No good against seekers tho. I put the shield weapon first followed by the distortion weapon on my lighter ships. with BB's & DN's,i put the shield depleater or 2 followed by 1 distortion and rest the highest temporal beam weapon, (can't think of name right now).
I also design a BC & a Dn with all time distortion weapons and use them to escort my fleets. They devestate any ftrs thrown at you and cover the fleet until your main weapon comes back on line. (I believe it fires every 2nd turn. hwoever, do put a few pd's on yur ships or have several pd ships, usually heavy CA's to take out seekers if you are fighting one of those races. The distorion does 4x damage to shields & reg damage against armor. Also get the Temp shipyard and Temp pacification centers. They are more effective and efficient then the regular ones. Replace your reg shipyards with the Temporal ones when you get them. I also put the distortion weapon on my ftrs as well as mix them up with rockets or torpedos depending on size of ftr. I feel they do a lot more damage then some of the other weapons and they fire each turn.

just some ideas mac