[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Spoon, I assume that you are implying the use of retro-series builds there, and discounting BSYs. DUC and PPB ships can be retro-series built just as easily as Organic ships can. Sure you can build them faster, but pound-for-pound, they do not match up to normal ships in combat.

Handeled correctly, an organic race can build ships roughly twice as fast as an otherwise identical non-organic race without doing any sort of retrofit series stuff. And you can support more in maintenance. Yes it may be true that you lost 3 ships for every 2 the other guy loses, but when you can build 2 or 3 for every one he can, it's very easy to overwhelm them.

It doesn't matter how many ships each of you loses, it only matters who runs out first.

That being said, the organic race alone is definetly not an uber-race.

Geoschmo