[Taera]

First sorry but i've been misunderstood. I did not mean to criticize all the AI races out there all the way you reached the PPB and NSP combinations.
I just said that the thing is becoming abused and 80% of all the newest races i hear of are using those weapons, which makes no fun games.
Im just telling my opinion which is that the game would become a little better if each race had its own _unique_ weapons combinations.

There are different weapons that the AI can use quite effectively, most importantly the heavier weapons like torpedoes and gravitational guns.
The point is that the AI tends to build a lot of ships and the better AIs group them in large fleets of 10+.
In my latest game i went to the gravity weapons road and found out an interesting thing: while the weapon is extremly weak on its own, when massed it is one of the best weapons out there.

Religious races also could benefit from torpedoes much more than from just energy guns they use now (most of the races i've seen use APB or PPB or MB or whatever).

Wormhole beam could make a useful addition to any heavy gear gun - NSP, WMG, Mental Singularity and so on. Shoot, warp 'em away and untill you meet again your weapons will be ready to fire once again.

And so on. With a little of thinking of the matter, every single gun in the game could find its use - and effective use. I've noticed it a while ago back in SE3, my destroyers with MB and torpedoes were breaking havoc while those weapons were considered to be the less effective.