SE4 Strategy - An Art or a Science?

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by askan:
Success in the game does NOT depend on technological advantage, its depends on an advantage in the correct technologies. You can concede a disadvatange in shields, ship size, weapons, construction, resource production as long as you are superior in offence/defence.

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I am starting to see your point here. However I still feel that much of what you are calling science is actually art. It takes the knowledge and skill to know when to research these techs. To develop the plan, and to be able to adapt it to what your enemy is doing.

Something that just hit me like a ton of bricks in our recent game is that fact that the defensive bonuses for Steath Armor, Scattering Armor, and ECM all stack. I am not sure why I didn't already know that, but I was under the misunderstanding that you only got the highest defensive bonus of one of those three, not all three.

So you could say that you wiped me out because of the science of the armor defense bonuses, or the art of not knowing when to research them.

Geoschmo