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[RulerOfNothing]

With this missile design I would reduce your fuel amount to one tenth its current value and use the freed up mass on manoeuvre rating (or split it depending on your engine and manoeuvre rating techs, but I can't remember the formula for that at the moment). But yes you can fire AMMs in salvos.

[Flying Dice]

You definitely want better CTH than that. Of course, it looks like your tech is pretty low, so you might not be able to manage much better for the time being. But definitely cut the range down to ~5m km tops; you don't really need lengthy intercept envelopes unless for some reason your AMM launchers have really shit reload times. Dropping that fuel weight will give you room for a better drive and more agility.

[iceball3]

Depends on your current tech level and your target's tech level. Best design choices in vacuum is to design something good enough to counteract your best available tech.

[Insanegame27]

How useful would ships with 5-10 Hi-Powered Microwaves be when paired with dropship fighters? Use the HPM to disable the ship then board and capture.

[Metalax]

How useful would ships with 5-10 Hi-Powered Microwaves be when paired with dropship fighters? Use the HPM to disable the ship then board and capture.

They can be quite effective, I frequently use the when I'm going for games focusing on boarding. You will generally want to accompany them with some PD vessels though to let them survive to reach range.

One thing to bear in mind though compared to using regular weapons to soften up a ship for boarding, you won't be causing any damage to the enemies engines so will have to board at the enemies full speed. Also you won't be burning a hole through the armour belt, so your landed forces will have to make their own entry.

[Insanegame27]

Is there any way to specifically target an enemy's engine?

[Lightningfalcon]

Is there any way to specifically target an enemy's engine?

I just use gauss turrets, and sandpaper my way through the enemy armor. Occasionally blow up the enemy ship, but most of the time I can take down at least half their engines.

[Metalax]

Is there any way to specifically target an enemy's engine?

No, no weapons specifically target engines. On the other hand engines usually account for a fair proportion of the DAC on many designs, so have a good chance of getting hit once you are actually causing internal damage.

[RedKing]

Hence, mesons. I use a mix of HPM and mesons for my "disabler" ships.

[EuchreJack]

Yeah, with the location-dependent research bonuses there's definitely incentive to spread your labs around.

How so?  I know that scientists change research bonuses, but I hadn't heard of research bonuses affected by location.  Please tell me more.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, with the location-dependent research bonuses there's definitely incentive to spread your labs around.

How so?  I know that scientists change research bonuses, but I hadn't heard of research bonuses affected by location.  Please tell me more.

A while back Steve added anomalies which occasionally appear on system bodies, granting bonuses to a research of a specific category conducted there. They're not particularly common, though; in my current campaign I've got ~40 fully-surveyed systems, but only two such anomalies. One gives !I think +40% to E/KW research, the other... maybe Biology?

Basically IIRC it was intended to help encourage people to not just build a stack of 250 labs on their homeworld and leave them all there.

[EuchreJack]

Thanks, I had forgotten about that.

[Dramegno]

Is their a max size for ships/orbital platforms that would keep them from using a jump gate. I know that their is a max when using jump ships to jump them?

Also is their a butter zone for stacking multiple orbital platform modules for something like a terraforming/fuel harvester base?

[Metalax]

Is their a max size for ships/orbital platforms that would keep them from using a jump gate. I know that their is a max when using jump ships to jump them?

No, Jumpgates have no limits on the size of ships that can use them.

Also is their a butter zone for stacking multiple orbital platform modules for something like a terraforming/fuel harvester base?

Not quite sure what you are asking here, If you mean, is there a limit to how many ships can be in a single location? Then no there is no limit. Several ship modules require the ship containing them to be located at a colony to function, though the 'colony' doesn't actually need to have anything on it itself. Some of these such as maintenance modules are getting altered in the next version to function away from colonies.

[Dramegno]

basically what I was asking is their a good rule of thumb for the number of orbital modules on an avg orbital station that actually designed to stay in orbit of a body for long periods of time to help kick start or offset production for example. sending a massive orbital platform that has enough modules to support 5 million pop to a gas planet to kickstart mining/pop while slowly terraforming a Venus class planet. Another example which I am not sure would work would be the same thing but in orbit of a gas giant with fuel refineries and mines being brought over to help get around the hard cap on number of sorium harvesters?