[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Master B, I have no doubt you could make short work of anybody using APB and you using PPB. However, I also have no doubt you could make short work of them with you using APB and them using PPB. You are on a different level than most of us here as far as skill as a player.

I only expected that Ashkan believed that the PPB doesn't need to be fixed! Maybe I could have a chance to defeat him!
Honestly, the "challenge" was more a joke than other thing... but Rollo have accepted it and we're playing now!

Originally posted by geoschmo:

I also respect your opinion in a great many issues, but on this one I must respectfully disagree. I had come to the conclusion that PPB was a bit cheap to research, and thus imbalanced, but Rollo's comments got me to reconsider.

Ok. No problem George, I understand.
But what argument changed your mind, because Rollo was wrong comparing APB VI with PPB VI...

About your experiment with Meson BLasters, looks interesting. I'm not against to try to find a work around, ok?
I'm against to play my PBW games (and solo games), using 95% of the time the same weapon...
And the sad thing, is that most of the trained players does the same than me... It mean games where all the people research PPB and Armors IV fast, Sensors and ECM, and not very often research Shields (only to avoid Boarding ships, and after the next patches, Ionic Dispersers).

Maybe the people is not very creative, could be. But I think that the people know that the facts, have demonstrated that is worthless spend research points in weapons that probably will have not time to use... because for the time to reach APB XII, your empire should be a dead meat from a long time ago... The problem is that most the games are with small/medium galaxies, and you usually start with a human neighbor...

PPB is the "über-weapon", not matter if it's something more expensive.
I don't support an special way to "fix" the PPB (although I have voted for change the cost to research it), but think that MUST be fixed, because the only drawback is some more cost in minerals, that will not keep me out to continue using it as main weapon in my games.

Somebody could say: "But if you're tired to use PPB, then use something else!" And maybe I'll start to use other weapons, only for enjoy... but the problem is that mostly I enjoy win!