Culture assists your millitary advance

Culture hampers their defense

Culture boosts your defense

Culture boosts your economy

Culture weakens their economy

Culture is not a way to win the game, it assists you winning the game through your fleet. It works as intended imo, perhaps a marginal buff might be nice, but I would say that: I like Advent.

BTW you do realise that 'the gay porn uploader' is the most usefull supereweapon if you only have 1 superweapon right?

Im pretty sure the TEC culture is about Gay anyway, i mean have you seen those uniforms?

I dunno, some of those Advent voices positively scream "Lesbian".

Step 1 attack somewhere with your fleet.

Step 2 shoot the battle with the deliverance engine.

You are now fighting in YOUR culture (there is no way to stop the deliverance engine shot from generating culture) which buffs you, and debuffs the enemy+ you get a generic extra combat buff specifically for being hit with the love gun. So to be honest i'll take the vasari having 10 % less attack power and me having 10 % more mitigation over a big explosion that does nothing any day.

Perhaps in a big map no rush for 12 hours you have 18000 kostura cannons which are admitedly more usefull than 18000 deliverance engines, but if you played an actual game you'll be lucky to get out 1 (NOTE 1) and the deliverance engine will be the most usefull in supporting your attacks, then the kostura then the novalith.

1 kostura is ok, it does the job (though not against starbases) and jumping behind their frontline is pretty cool.

1 Novalith is quite frankly pants. What decisive blows have you ever struk with that?

Secondly yes it does apply to all culture.

But you are always dominating the culture game having to invest less to attack than the enemy to defend, slowing his tech. Also you increase your allegiance and therefore economy faster than the other guys. Combined with advents maximum allegiance increases and, well considering you arent the 'traders' you have a pretty mighty economy.

i have to agre with Ue, the advent super weapon will assist your fleet better than any other superweapon.

And Siddy if you dont like the advent's super weapon play a race that you like their superweapon, or just dont get the deliverence engine.

Advent superweapon is useful if you are wealthy enough to get it. But it is clearly not worth the money you spend in them. Build ships instead : ships don't disappear because of culture stations, deliverance engine shot effect does.

If you are in a whole culture kill strategy, why not... but it is far less efficient than big guns in big ships actually, even for Advent.

Don't forget that the Deliverance also grants a 15% damage bonus (in Vanilla Sins at least) to your ships in the gravity well of a planet under the effects of a Deliverance Signal.

  The Novalith got the shaft in Entrechment!!!!

...or he has a colony ship set next to the planet who would recolonize it. Novalith are not really useful except if you bomb the planet who has the frigate factory so you can stop his machine of war (a planet totally bombed loses the ability to produce ship). But again, it is not worth it : the damn thing is just also too expensive in research and construction.

Except for the korustra cannon and just for entrenchment that could allow you to go through the ennemy lines, building superweapons doesn't take sense : imagine how much HC you can build with that money ! (don't forget the price and the time needed by research)

Top Vasari, not really.  By the time you have a nova, your opponent better have a ton of trade ports, so HW econ doesn't really do a whole lot in the end game.  Also, with SBs that prevent loss due to aux govt, the nova really sucks now and can be countered, hard.

Thats hilarious siddy   butyou are right. I have ended many games with the nov. How I think it would be very expensive to put a sb at everyworld and up it with aux gov. Not to mention even if you did it still can kill 100% pop for a very long time. It would take 10 shots to kill a planet with advent sw.(I have never seen this sw in a mp game)

I agree with dawkins. The deliverance engine isn't a direct planet killer, and if you expect to turn a planet by allegiance with this thing you're doing it wrong (or are very, very patient). The thing is simply awesome for offensive support, however! When assaulting a well defended planet, the defensvie increase combined with the removal of their damage/regen bonuses is immensely helpful.

Also, has anyone else accidentally wiped out their own new colony with the Novalith? I went to take a planet, and fired the Novalith at it. My caps took the planet faster than expected, and I forgot that I had fired the Novalith and colonized the planet about 5 seconds before the damn cannon round hit. Boy, that was embarrasing.