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[Shades]

Lasers are good for taking out the swarms of small things too. The queen you just need to keep moving around to it's side so it can't hit you.

I tend to use energy weapons the most out of anything, drones and energy weapons are lethal.

Unless I play hiver where the heavy ships with lots of slots and ballistic weapons will keep your targets unable to reform. (also hiver don't tend to get most of the energy weapons)

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Von Neumann uses phaser point defense and a unique 'recyclo beam' as I like to call it.  The phaer pd is the most effective pd I've seen, at least it's pretty much made my ships immune to missiles.  However, the "recyclo-beam" will freeze any ship it hits in place and disintegrate it after a short while.  This seems to allow the main vessel to produce more minions, so it's a real pain in the ass.  I've found that the safest way to defend against them is either long range projectile weaponry, or tons and tons of missiles.  If you fire enough of them some eventually get through and you can take them out before they ever get close.

Also, if you think Von Neumann and Silicoids are bad you have yet to see true horror.

[Shades]

Also, if you think Von Neumann and Silicoids are bad you have yes to see true horror.

Some of those true horrors are on the level of Fun

[Soulwynd]

Are there any mods for this game?

The strategical view is -horrible-. I could use a mod that made ships show up better, as in where they are and where they are ago. As of now, if you play on a huge starmap, it's really hard to see where your ships are. I also hate the fleets tab, very uninformative.

[sluissa]

I can usually chase the von neuman off pretty easy, but I've yet to destroy one. I rarely lose more than one ship to them. (Although occasionally it's a cruiser, so that can hurt.) Only real problem I had was when I accidentally set my tanker fleet as the main fleet one one planet. They didn't stand a chance, just kept dying until finally the warships got into the rotation.

[Shadowgandor]

Oh.My.God. I started playing as the Zuul and they're awesome, but I've encountered things...things you don't want to encounter when playing.
 I swear, I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to do against these guys, they ravage my planets (I don't mind, I'm doing the same thing to my own planets as well) but when a frick'n peacekeeper is prohibiting me from building an army while all kinds of HFS are coming towards me, I know that the universe doesn't like me Still, I prefer the HFS instead of that peacekeeper, I think he's the equivalent of Chuck Norris in space.

[Orb]

Can you buy the expantions retail? I would love to get them, I mean corrosive missiles, and silicon queens? Much better than boring old ships that can launch asteroids.

[Zai]

Are there any mods for this game?

Yes.

The strategical view is -horrible-. I could use a mod that made ships show up better, as in where they are and where they are ago.

I don't know of any that do that. I'm not sure that's even possible to mod normally.

[Shadowgandor]

Can you buy the expantions retail? I would love to get them, I mean corrosive missiles, and silicon queens? Much better than boring old ships that can launch asteroids.

You could always try ebay, I never had problems using that.
I bought the game from Gamersgate.com, works like a charm

[BigD145]

The strategical view is -horrible-. I could use a mod that made ships show up better, as in where they are and where they are ago. As of now, if you play on a huge starmap, it's really hard to see where your ships are. I also hate the fleets tab, very uninformative.

Are you sure you haven't just lacked the appropriate research?

[Soulwynd]

Nope. If you zoom back the ship icons practically disappear. I do see the lines but when you have 200 stars in a 3d map it's hard to tell if they're going or coming without having to center the map and zoom in... Then you have 20+ fleets that gets really annoying...

(ps. In my other post, ago = going... It was late and my brain broke for a second)

[Shadowgandor]

We should get a multiplayer match going sometime, that would be awesome

ps: I am the suckzors @ this game

[Greiger]

We should get a multiplayer match going sometime, that would be awesome

ps: I am the suckzors @ this game

Agreed with the multiplayer.  I played this game way back before the expansions came out, but my computer could barely run it at the time.  Once I got a new computer I got the full all expansions pack and played it even more.  I even managed to take out a

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VN Homeworld

once. Now that was fierce fighting. took 7 turns of fighting with the majority of my navy with nearly max tech.

Anyway, I usually play Tarka since I'm most familiar with their ship styles.  But I've been playing Morrigi a bit recently.  And think I got them down fairly well too.

[Shadowgandor]

Ah man, I just noticed Gamersgate ripped me off They had an ultimate edition for 29.99 and a complete edition for 29.99. I bought the ultimate edition...that one's without the newest expansion

Damn it, same thing happened to me before with The Guilds II lol

[Rakonas]

Eh, I tried it, but I think I just don't go well with space colonization games. I liked the races and their advantages and such, but who doesn't want to play as telekinetic space dolphins? It's better than GalCiv and Aurora, though, in my opinion.