thinking: OA vs CA

[Taera]

SJ: high damage/low reload weapons eliminate any bonuses from regeneration and whatsoever so thats not that much important.

[Suicide Junkie]

High-damage low reload weapons will give your OA time to regenerate while they reload.

The CA just sits idly by waiting for the next hit.

[Pablo]

My most liked advanced tech was organic armor but
after the new patch is released, OA will loose its power. Who needs regenerating armor if it regenerates only AFTER the battle? I don't see the point in that. If the ship survives the battle - there are repair bays/space yards to repair it.
Crystaline armor is nice but to spend 1500 points on armor that is just a little better than normal is way too much. I would beef-up research/construction for that amount of points and just put more normal armor/shields on a ship.

[dogscoff]

after the new patch is released, OA will loose its power. Who needs regenerating armor if it regenerates only AFTER the battle? I don't see the point in that. If the ship survives the battle - there are repair bays/space yards to repair it.

I don't think that's how it's going to work. OA will still regenerqate during combat as usual, but it will also regenerate after combat, which it didn't do before.

[Pablo]

Right, dogscoff. I searched through the forum and found that OA will not PRE-regenerate.
Thanks for making such a simple statement and my life happier

[ November 28, 2002, 12:49: Message edited by: Pablo ]

[oleg]

CA requires phased shields - PPB makes CA ability irrelevant if your ship has just normal shields.

[Taera]

crystallurgy tech tree.
Dont forget that the crystallurgy has the Energy Dampener, which is not to be ignored, and the High-Energy Magnifier, which is though being high in the technology tree and research-costly is one of the best weapons in the game IMO.

edit: oleg, thats a good point. once again though, rock-scissor-paper. CA is more useful against most other weapons.

[ November 29, 2002, 23:25: Message edited by: Taera ]