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[Mephansteras]

I had an amazing run in the Zoltan A last night, I was able to get a ionblast II and a burst laser II which took down the flagship quickly since I kept the Halberd. The Zoltan shield is amazing for reducing damage since it will stop the first volley or 2 of missiles and bombs so you can destroy the weapon systems, thus it saves alot of money that would be spent repairing. Is it possible to increase the overall zoltan shield past 5 with the shield drones?

No, the shield drone can't get it past 5. It is pretty amazing on the Zoltan ships, though, since it can 'repair' your super shield if it doesn't go down all the way. I found my Zoltan victory to be pretty easy with one. I think I took...3 hull damage or so, total? It was on Easy, but still...good combo.

[Sirus]

How long does the shield drone last? Does it eventually stop making new supershield layers?

[miauw62]

It lasts until it's destroyed.

I never use drones or missiles, for whatever reason. I like the reliability of lasers and beams.

[Darkmere]

Drone recovery arms are wonderful things.

[Mephansteras]

I dislike missile-using weapons because missiles can run out. Drones are alright.

That's what an explosives replicator is for.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Or the powerful missiles. With those you don't need many. Usually one breach/pegasus/full swarm will do.

[Mageziya]

Speaking of missing shots, I feel like something is off when trying to hit things related to evasion. (Piloting and Engines.)

While this is purely anecdotal, while playing on normal I've recently had situations where every shot would hit on non-evasion system and then as soon as I switched to the engine or piloting it would miss. I've actually had situations where every shot would miss until I switched to a different, non-evasion-related target, though that might be memory bias.

[Jim Groovester]

The enemy power juggles. When you damage systems, they put the excess power in other systems, including the engines.

[Kaitol]

Zoltan ship with a vulcan I bought in sector one and its halberd beam and missile launcher. Get fucked flagship. Also had a weapon igniter so the vulcan shot even faster. Unlocked two ships and layout B. Also did the don't upgrade reactors till sector 5 and the 29 power in systems that run.

Vulcan with a backup missile launcher basically beats everything in the game.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I still want to see a vulcan + glaive combo. A double superweapon surprise!

[Mageziya]

That would take 5 millennia to properly charge up and would always be subject to the unfortunate luck of the AI being smart and aiming for the weapons.

But if the Vulcan could get warmed up and the glaive beam charged before that happened, most ships would die in one hit.

[sambojin]

Pre-ignitors are wonderful things. Not quite an "I win!" button, but it's probably the closest thing to it in the game.

[mosshadow]

Has anyone gotten ion blast II with 3 autoloaders? Or Vulcan with 3 autoloaders? It would probably be very fun.

[Urist Imiknorris]

That would take 5 millennia to properly charge up and would always be subject to the unfortunate luck of the AI being smart and aiming for the weapons.

But if the Vulcan could get warmed up and the glaive beam charged before that happened, most ships would die in one hit.

The Glaive would charge before the Vulcan got to +5, so the vulcan can spin up and rip apart the enemy shields for a full-power glaive shot. Cloaking (and maybe stealth weapons) would go a long way toward buying the needed time.

Has anyone gotten ion blast II with 3 autoloaders? Or Vulcan with 3 autoloaders? It would probably be very fun.

The closest I got was four Flak Is with three autoloaders and a gold-level gunner. That was the fastest flagship-crushing I've ever performed.

[lemon10]

That would take 5 millennia to properly charge up and would always be subject to the unfortunate luck of the AI being smart and aiming for the weapons.

But if the Vulcan could get warmed up and the glaive beam charged before that happened, most ships would die in one hit.

The Glaive would charge before the Vulcan got to +5, so the vulcan can spin up and rip apart the enemy shields for a full-power glaive shot. Cloaking (and maybe stealth weapons) would go a long way toward buying the needed time.

Vulcan+Glaive sounds pretty useless. If the enemy has 4 strong shields, then you can't damage them at all until the Vulcan fully spins up and takes down their shields altogether. And by that point you are going to murder them very quickly using just the Vulcan alone (since it can demolish their shields then kill their weapons singlehandedly). I suppose you could use it to kill them out a few seconds earlier, but I think that the spare power (and scrap) would be much better spent on defenses/shield piercing weapons.

E: Well, not completely useless, but costing far more scrap then it would be worth, and not really being very awesome either (since I prefer to watch the Vulcan rapidly murdernate them without them being able to do anything about it).