In every game I have played so far, I go straight for Phased Polaron before I put *any* beam weapons on the ship. In addition to punching through shields, they have a very good range. Plus, they seem quite cheap to research.
Do you think they should be more difficult to research? For example, do you think it would be better if you had to research every level of Anti Proton first?
I also think that since they punch through the shields, they should have some sort of drawback such as reduced range. I think it is just too easy to build ships equipped only with these fairly long range shield piercing weapons which took quite a good bit of damage.
Another question: What good are weapons like the ripper beam and other such weapons?
Can someone start up a game with all the tech turned on and design a ship with weapons better than the Phased Polarons? They just seem to be too good of a weapon.
I'm sure this sounds pretty naive to you SEIV gurus out there. But I haven't started playing with the AI bonus turned on yet and so haven't yet encountered any AI races with better tech ships than me.
Phased Polaron too easy to research?
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