Gameplay tips & tricks

LGM · #1 November 14th, 2004, 05:09 AM

Warp Weapons on Heavy mounts are a nice way to break up an enemies fleet so they fight piecemail. However, such a strategy makes your unarmed ships that run to the corner much harder to defend. I suggest you spread out your mine sweeping capabilty if you use these. You also need to spread out minesweepers if they target weakest in case you put one weapon with max range on your minesweepers.

Repulser beams are better at pushing enemies in a consistent directon, but they do not work against bigger ships like Warp weapons do.

LGM · #2 November 14th, 2004, 05:14 AM

Ringworlds remove the star from a system, so solar collectors on drones will no longer collect supply, so they will quickly run out of supply. I would assume that would apply to Crystalline faclity that produces resources per star as well (they would no longer produce).

My next post will be some reason why you should not use drones.

LGM · #3 November 14th, 2004, 05:18 AM

You can deploy drones in space with two solar collectors III so they do not run out of supply. However, they are managed as single units so they quickly make your empire hard to manage. If you use the space bar to move to the next ship without orders, it will stop on drones. Since drones cannot be grouped in a fleet, you will keep coming back to the drone stack as you cycle looking for ships to give orders too.

If you hit the ship limit and feel you must build units, build fighters instead of drones. They are easier to manage and can be recovered and can be grouped in fleets.