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I think we all agree that PDC are very important for weapon platforms. As offensive weapons I use in the early game missiles. In the later game IMO the weapon platforms have the same problem as satellites: If your enemy uses long range weapons and does a "dance" with his ships, you might never get the chance to fire your weapons at all! So for sats and weapon platforms to remain interesting even in the late game you should create weapon mounts with incresed range and hit chance for them. Not so high as for the bases, may be half of their values will be adequate. I use this in my games since the the release of the mounts for bases and I am very satisfied with that modification. My choice is then phased polaron beam or later anti proton beam.