Ok, now I'm going to do something I hate when other people do, I'm going to post something semi-useful without checking if anyone mentioned it in this tread before...
I would have checked but this thread is freaking 54 pages long!
The thing I really have always wanted in both Master of Orion 2 and SE4 that really was the coolest space combat effect in the B5 series was the Narn "Energy Mines" that they used in the first encounter with the Shadow vessels.
I just loved the area of effect attack from a distance, hitting several ships.
In Master of Orion there was the Pulsar which damaged all ships around which I thought was really cool, but to have an attack like that from a distance would really rock.
If anyone knows a way to implement it in SE4 I would love to hear.
For stats I guess it would have a fire rate of 30 (once per combat), and not do too much damage, but spread it over several ships.
Any thoughts?
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