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Also don't attack with your starter fortress, leave it to gather resources while you go and fight.

And yeah, the fastest way to kill enemy early is to use light weapons to cripple movement then get on board and use a weapon to take out the AI core and other things until the ship dies.  You'll know when a vehicle dies when you get a giant wave of green sparkles heading towards you.  Those sparkles are the resources the ship was made from.

And the gem market has crashed, literally.

Also is anyone else getting a sinking feeling this may become like MS points and become a new controlled currency?

No way to set mineral deposits to be infinite, but you can edit the deposits with SM on while using the system view (F9) screen.

Honestly using SM to learn the game is perfectly fine.  You have to use it to set up a non-earth start anyway, which is what I do every game.  Haven't done a Sol system start in forever.

Actually lasers do a VERY sharp spear, at around 10 damage the profile goes from a single line to a wider line.  I've one shot ships with a 40+ damage laser before, and captured another that survived a shot and that's when I learned that my laser wasn't doing a single line of damage anymore.

Particle beams do a much shallower version of the same spear.

Missiles do a perfect pyramid, so every square is a new layer. 

Also microwave guns do triple damage to shields and then ignore armor like mesons, but unlike mesons they only damage electronics.  Microwaves can easily blind ships and render them defenseless but intact.

Also Gauss don't need power plants, while the rest all need power supplied as good as their capacitor rating.


Biology unlocks genetic engineering, which lets you turn a population of one race into a modified version.  You research the steps similar to other things.  Honestly it's not that great for anything other than RP to me, because the cost/time investment in making a race that can survive way outside your own races norms is way to much compared to making a transformer fleet.

Edit: Also the reason your ground survey team isn't doing anything is because you need to use a geo-survey ship first.

Maybe this is what it means to get old, and feel pretty disenfranchised from popular culture. I just can't really get into it anymore. The bombast just makes me want to laugh, and the amount of crap that's on your screen just makes me not to want play. I'm not really reserving this for CoD anymore either. I used to really like Battlefield and played it up to....hell I don't even know what version it's now. But sorta the same story. Ranking up. Unlocks. Perks. Kill streaks. Eh. I used to really like these things and the whole presentation, but of the last 3 or 4 years, I just don't get into it like I used to. I think I'm kinda waiting on the next evolution of shooters to get back into it again, because I want something fresh, not the desperately rehashed and re-used gameplay of the last 8 to 10 years.

Shooters in the last few years (at least CoD, BF is heading this way faster and faster) have gone the same direction that sports video games did over 15 years ago.  Yearly releases that feature one major game change and a few minor ones, changes that at times are cool and others that seem like step backwards in fun/playability.  Feature changes that have to have been thought of years before that are in a populated list that get chosen to "change up" the next release.  You'll probably see minor change that were well received in one release make it into the next, but don't expect major changes because by the time that years product is released the next one is already well into production.

I'm sitting here watching this all happen while I play my $15 games made by small teams who actually want to make a unique product and have fun.

That and each update resets your download limit.

It's funny to me that they are going back to revisit the Horus Heresy so much right now, especially since I know someone who was affected by it hugely when they introduced the whole event.

My dad played 40k in the epic scale before it was called epic scale, it was THE scale to play at the time.  On a square base the same size as a normal troop today you had 5 tiny little guys representing a squad.  The games scale was close to all the other major/minor war games out at the time it was just that 40k was the big sci-fi one at the time, and was actually originally made to try and compete against Battletech with pure titan battles but they introduced infantry and armor rather quickly.  He had(has) a pretty big collection, an Ork and Eldar army, a excessively long Squat train and his massive space marine army.  His army of marines and their armor was just shy of his combined Ork and Eldar collection.

The thing is my dad liked purple so he played his marines as a Emperors Children chapter, you can kind of see where this is going.  He played for a few years and then the Horus Hersey happened(2nd ed).  His army went from being the good guys following the emperor to being part of the new renegades.  He's still pissed.