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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Hmm... Are you using ancient weapons, or normal race guns?

Purely normal race weapons. I haven't even started to muck with the ancients - they have to relate to the normals, and so until the normals are "known" the ancients cannot be.

Also, Light or Heavy armor?
Heavy armor would be better for small skirmishes between normal races, but when fleets & firepower get big enough to kill ships in one or two rounds, Light works better.

50% mix of medium and heavy.

Hmm, perhaps the inert armors should be researched in the reverse order... heavy then light as tech increases (and more colonies mean increasing fleet size)

Light armor gets too expensive, I have found, and the "leakiness' of it seems excessive based on wholly inadequate testing (which is to say that I stopped even employing them pretty early). Actually, one-ton components get really unwieldy on larrge ships. Can we re-think the idea of one-ton components except as fillers?