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Whats the deal with this? It seems just amazingly useless. So you can shoot a planet from 30% farther away? Its not like the planet is going anywhere. You might get off two salvos before an un upgraded siege ship can make it into range, whoop de doo. Is there something im missing here or is this upgrade just gimped?
The main purpose of the upgrade is to allow your ships to start bombardment sooner. Yes you may only get two shots off compared to the un-upgraded siege ship, but that is one extra salvo of damage you have dealt to the planet faster than the un-upgraded ship. Also it will take more time for defending ships to reach your upgraded siege ships if they were positioned on the other side of the planet. So even if those upgraded ships get destroyed, as long as they got off several salvos (or even one or two) because of their range enhancement, you have done more damage to the population of that planet and so you are hurting the enemies economy more than if you had un-upgraded ships where the enemy can reach them faster because the siege ships had to be closer to the planet to fire.
Everything has its purpose. That upgrade's purpose is more subtle than say an upgrade that increases a weapons damage.
If you also try to use the Vulkoras' Deploy Siege Platform, the platform is often deployed outside of its firing range, so Pinpoint Bombardment will give it enough range to fire if you let the Vulkoras simply use it at maximum deployment range.
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