[Wardad]

Crystalline,

If the weapons used less minerals and more radioactives it would help play balance.

For the amount of research points and racial points the weapons are a bad deal. Sure they might give an temporary edge against organic armor, but a human player can easily counter it.

The armor is OK, but are you going to carry enough armor and shields to make the benifit worth while?

The facilities I have not tried. Is that a 30% maintainance reduction or a -30 reduction (like racial trait setup).
Since shields are easily countered, boosting shields is not that helpful.

Now that I'm doing PBW I may have to fight in my backyard. Against the AI the Fight facilities are useless to me.

I'm a replacement player for a PBW game. The race is crystalline. It is a high research cost game. I'm doing well but I'm muttering a lot of 4 letter words.