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[Antioch]

Whats a good medium turret mount for Tarka Cruisers? I'm finding plasma cannons lack the oooph I want. Been researching mass drivers, since emitters was a dead end.

I just rely on Heavy beam lasers to dish out damage, can't seem to find anything for medium mounts aside for missiles.

I usually go for plasma cannons, they aren't great but they do the job, they are also easy to research and the tree gets a lot better when you get fusion. After that you can get antimatter cannons which are usually the best medium weapon mount.

I find missiles are obsolete to fast once point defence is researched, so you still have to research another branch of the tech tree.

[Djohaal]

Particle beams (and their improvements) can slice through enemy ships rather efficiently too. Plus they are quite accurate

Also heavy drones with phasers man. Heavy drones with phasers.

[forsaken1111]

Heavy drones with phasers.

[Shades]

I quite like the light emitter techs if you have them. Get a few ships close in and watch everything fry at once Not so good late game mind you.

[forsaken1111]

I quite like the light emitter techs if you have them. Get a few ships close in and watch everything fry at once Not so good late game mind you.

And not good if the opponent gets energy absorbers. I think light emitters and plasma cannons are reduced by ~75% by absorbers.

[Djohaal]

Outfitting your whole fleet with graviton beams is evil. The enemy ships get tossed around like hell.

[forsaken1111]

One amazingly fun trick is throwing tractor beams on your large defense satellites. Sats naturally rotate, so invariably anything snagged by the tractor will be slammed into the planet and killed instantly. Sure it does some minor damage to the planet but its funny as hell and can instakill even a dread.

[Lightning4]

I quite like the light emitter techs if you have them. Get a few ships close in and watch everything fry at once Not so good late game mind you.

And not good if the opponent gets energy absorbers. I think light emitters and plasma cannons are reduced by ~75% by absorbers.

Yeah, and emitters are reduced a further 50% if the enemy has hardened electronics.

[Dohon]

Heavy drones with phasers.

Morrigi Heavy Drones with Phasers. So many ...

*rocks back and forth*

[forsaken1111]

Don't Zuul heavy drones get even more slots?

[Orb]

What do you guys think about a Sots community play? I can host it in about a month, give or take, depending on how slow Amazon is on shipping. We would be playing with all the expansions, since I don't think its possible otherwise.

Spoiler: For people too lazy to find where to get the complete collection (click to show/hide)

http://www.amazon.com/Swords-Star-Complete-Collection-Download/dp/B003P2VTBO/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1293912720&sr=1-2

The complete collection on Amazon is only 10 dollars to download. On Steam it might be cheaper.

[Cheese]

What do you guys think about a Sots community play? I can host it in about a month, give or take, depending on how slow Amazon is on shipping. We would be playing with all the expansions, since I don't think its possible otherwise.

Spoiler: For people too lazy to find where to get the complete collection (click to show/hide)

http://www.amazon.com/Swords-Star-Complete-Collection-Download/dp/B003P2VTBO/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1293912720&sr=1-2

The complete collection on Amazon is only 10 dollars to download. On Steam it might be cheaper.

Sounds interesting. Will we be playing a big or small galaxy?

[Orb]

What do you guys think about a Sots community play? I can host it in about a month, give or take, depending on how slow Amazon is on shipping. We would be playing with all the expansions, since I don't think its possible otherwise.

Spoiler: For people too lazy to find where to get the complete collection (click to show/hide)

http://www.amazon.com/Swords-Star-Complete-Collection-Download/dp/B003P2VTBO/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1293912720&sr=1-2

The complete collection on Amazon is only 10 dollars to download. On Steam it might be cheaper.

Sounds interesting. Will we be playing a big or small galaxy?

Well, I was thinking around 200 stars. Gives each player 25 stars, so about 10 stars habitable. Still haven't fully decided on the other options, but I think I'll leave diplomacy open(form alliances), since Bay12 loves diplomacy, subterfuge, and so on. Everything else will be on default, so its balanced for all races.(putting ly distance at 25 would make it suicidal to play as hiver or human). Galaxy type can be decided by a vote, which I could do in a separate thread.

"Edit" Or if someone is really good, we could play Hungry Children.

[Djohaal]

I'd vote for disk galaxy cuz' I have problems with the three-dimeiontalness of other maps. 

[Krelian]

I was going to make a thread to promote a bit this game, but I see you already did it.

This game is one of my favs. I had waited for like 10 years for a worthy succesor to Master of orion 2, and this game is it.

Only thing I dont like is the voice acting.

And SotS2 is comming next year! yay!