Ancient Ruins & Advanced Technology?

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by tbontob:
What is the difference between ancient ruins and advanced technology on a planet?

For example, Massive Engine Destroying Weapons are not very useful when compared with our normal ionic dispersers.

Ah, but if you find them before anyone else even has a chance to research that far -- aren't they at least cool, if not as useful.

Seriously, I thought the massive engine destoryer, and especially the Massive Shield Depleter were the greatest before I understood the tech tech tree and knew I could get something myself.

A massive shiled depleter on a boarding party destroyer is pretty good the early game. When no one has self destruct, and is only up to shield 2.

Yes, you get to research a shield depleter, and with a carefully assembled fleet of boarders and depleters in the correct number, with careful tactics for fleet and ships, avoiding the enemy that uses self destruct ... bah, I'm talking about have some fun early on.

Leaving space littered with engineless frigates of an enemy that only has a few planets to support maintenance -- and they don't even have repair researched yet -- bwah ha ha ha