I have had a few small map games where the primary choke points on the map were asteroid belts and as such weren't colonizable. Normally if there was a colonizable planet/asteroid there, I would drop in the monster defenses and use it to section off a large chunk of the system from the enemy. So if you can't build hangars/gauss/etc, is the only option to station a fleet there? Or is there something else that I am missing?
[quote]Shield Mitagation is when the sensors on the ships pick up an incoming projectile, they focus the shield power to the predicted point of impact, so it does less damageIt's kind of like the nanotech suits the military is working on where the nanites in the suit harden where the bullet is supposed to hit[/quote] Um, nanites are still sci-fi dude. The suits you reference use materials that stiffen automatically when shocked, going from a liquid state to a solid extremely fast. It'
Not sure if this is a dumb question but it doesn't seem to be answered in the manual. If I build 2 frigate factories around the same planet, does that mean they will produce ships twice as fast? From the handful of games I have played it looks like they share the same queue and as such there isn't a way to tell one factory to produce LRMs while the other produces cruisers so I'm not sure if there is an actual benefit to having more than one factory.
