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Reply to Balance/Builds Analysis: Attempt to raise the level of the community in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Haha. Fact 1: Illums do 25% less damage against light armor and 50% less damage against medium. Fact 2: Illums do less single target damage than the other long range frigates making them, at best, on par with LRMs (unit to unit, not resources spent) when killing cap ships. Fact 3: Illums require more research and are more expensive. They are good later, yes. As a compliment to heavy cruisers and AoE firepower when you've already made them unkillable with a ton of

Reply to phase missles and phasing through shields in Strategy Sins Forums

This thread is getting stupid because quite a few people do not understand the idea of hull damage mitigation that kicks in when the shields fail. Its not that "math" can't solve it. Its that the models people are using do not accurately represent the game mechanics. Take technical details that most people don't know about and/or aren't interested in, add a forum conversation where most people don't bother to truly read replies and have coherent conversations... and what do you get

Reply to Damage and Armor Type by Ship Class (Charts inside!) in Strategy Sins Forums

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Reply to Death by diplomacy in Strategy Sins Forums

The teams aren't locked, he mentioned getting missions from allies...

Reply to Question on strategy for HUGE maps in Strategy Sins Forums

The Vasari phase gates only work between points in the same solar system. Not sure about the worm holes, though I would guess they only work in the same solar system for balance reasons.