Shard Cannon too weak???

[Baron Munchausen]

Yep, I think that the Shard Cannon is too weak when it fires every other turn like a torpedo. I've restored its 1 shot per turn rate in my custom techs. Now, if another HUMAN player were to be using the entire crystalline tech tree against me I might have to worry about this. But the AI doesn't make effective use of standard facilities let alone the nifty additions available for crystalline technology. So, the other advantages of this tech tree don't really count for the AI.

Personally, though, I would take the "Energy Dampner" from the crystalline techs and give to to the Temporal Knowledge tree. This field needs more abilities to make it worth as much as the others. Organic and Crystalline are plenty powerful and have been from the start. Psychic was OK, and is really pretty good with the new facilities added in the latest patches. Temporal Knowledge is still pretty wimpy.


[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 06 January 2001).]

[Talenn]

Yes, I also found the Shard Cannons to be completely lacking and altered them in my set. This is especially true given the fact that in the stock tech set, Armor is fairly uncommon.

Talenn

[Nyx]

The damage on the shard cannon is too low, but I've found that it has a very nice bit of range, so that you can really whittle down someone who isn't as fast as you, even though you don't do much damage per hit.

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