1) It's StabILIZER , not stabalizer. It's stabilizes, not stabs anything.

2) Phase stabilizers allow your fleet to jump between gravity wells with a Stabilizer present.
Suppose the shortest way from planet A to B is:
A ------ Pirate Base ------- Some Plazma Storm -------- Some planet -------- B
Normally going from A to B takes days - you have to go around the pirate base, through plasma storm, wait until your ships fly around the last planet and then jump to B. Moreover, making four jumps eats away 400 antimatter on all ships, meaning all your carriers and support cruisers will most likely enter B grav well without any Antimatter.

Having Phase Stabilizers built in A and B lets you do a straight jump:
A ---------------------------------------------------------------- B
It takes a lot less time, because ships don't waste eons or maneuvering through grav wells.
It also saves Antimatter on them, because they make one jump, not 4+ .

Also, with the next research after Stabilizers, your ships travel faster between Stabilized grav wells.
A -------------------------------- B

So, suddenly every reach of your empire is one jump away for any of your ships. This is a HELL of an advantage, because Advent or TEC need to share their forces to make two fast attack on two fronts. You do not, you can repel one attack and the second front, a zillion phase jumps away for *them*, is just next door for *you*.

Phase Stabilizers are good as they are, without RA -> Returning Armada .

3) RA was nerfed in 1.1 , because it now gives a few ships after paying for activation. It used to summon more and more ships every 6 minutes at no cost for you - meaning you would never have to build anything, just swarm the enemy until he dies.

4) Still, RA is very useful.
It does NOT require you to research the prototypes of the ships you summon.
It is INSTANT.
Although the incoming ships are random, in an average calculation you actually profit on activating the Armada, because the incoming ships cost:
- a lot more credits than the activation cost (usually ~4000 vs 2500 for activation),
- a lot more Metal than you paid (RA costs 200; that's 3 assailants, but you get a lot more).
You only don't profit on Crystal (500 is usually about 100 more Crystal than the ships cost together)

So, all in all, RA was imba before 1.1, but right now it is still useful in late game - it allows you to pump a lot of units instantly into the battle for ~60% price. Couple that with the Phase Stabilizers and you get a:
- big armada
- instantly
- at half price
- that you can locate at any of your planets in the system in about 2 minutes.

+ N3rull.

yes remember fleet points, I felt cheated the first couple of times I used this because I was using RA wrong. lol

moving a fleet for one side of a 60 planet map to the other in one jump is the best thing ever!

one question if im playing with a friend and we are both vasari can my friend use my phase gates to?

we are allies btw

... or have a few Marauders leveled

Yes indeed you need Fleet Points for RA. But you need them for normal Fleet construction too, so I took it for granted and didn't mention.
However, remember that while Clicking on "build ship" with no fleet points doesn't hurt you, firing a RA for 2,500 credits to get nothing is a BAD idea.

phase stabilizers are good for reinforcements

- the phase stabilizer could help in raids , if you have a marauder(lvl 6+) you can teleport in and out of grav wells or you could just send in a small raid force then use the marauder's skill and phase in a larger army in to the grav well

DAMN

Thanks, even if N3rull is a sp nazi. (I only spelled it wrong in the title. Simple typo)

Ok. That' the conclusion I came to as well. See, I thought I was going to create my entire fleet from these things...FAIL. I could see how they would be good for support, although I'm still not to sure about the cost when you factor in the research and lab costs. I guess better for longer games at the end.

Thanks.

My answer is: Repair Cloud heals over time. If it is applied before the damage is taken, then any damage dealt to a squad affected by the repair cloud is immediately mitigated, unless it is instantly lethal. Taking into consideration the fact that strike craft move quickly over large areas and often stay out of Skirantra's cloud's range (particularly bombers), applying the repair cloud just before you send them into enemy fire is sensible.

Still, Repair Cloud should start autocasting when something nearby is damaged, leaving a decisions like above to the player instead of having the cloud spammed all the time.

There are some abilities I don't mind being set on auto - Phase Missile Swarm on Vulkoras or Power Surge on Kortul.
Most, however, should not - Phase Out Hull on Marauder (AI has no idea of when to use it and on what), Nano-disassembler on the Space Egg or Planetary Bombardment Platforms on Vulkoras (hate it when Vulk breaks away from a battle to plant these).

you did correctly... you get like 6-7 ships... one important thing is to make sure you have enough fleet capacity. if you don't have enough fleet capacity and a stabilizer gets activated you waste the ressources (2500 gold, 150 metal, 500 crystal) for nothing!

RA = Returning Armada

yours,

whity

It's vasari's way to legitimately cheat.  As is RA.  As is the grav ball from the space egg.  As is the ability to see where every ship is phase jumping.........

Ok so maybe not cheating, but perks to greatly turn the odds in their favor

Ahh - buy 3 kodiaks, get one free....

Thats about the way it works. A Vas fleet can scoot around all it wants, but as TEC I can crank out units like crazy, for cheap, and have them every where. Or use the TEC equiv of RA... Insurgency... Nothing like random attacks througbout your empire, which cost me nothing.

Still, it would be nice to be able to use an allies phase gates.....