As a casual I've been thinking, what if arrange some systems with piracy and park the fleets in them, so that ships and admirals would get passive exp?
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Am I ready for 25x crisis?
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The arc emitter build works best vs contingency, which have only about 1/5 of their defense as actual HP, which means you effectively do 5x damage by ignoring shield and armor. Then again Giga cannons/neutron launchers also do bonus damage against specific defense types and switch targets to attack the correct defense, so lets average this to 1,5x damage. Total base damage of a Full Giga/NL battleship is about 350, while an arc emitter only will hit about 150 but also costs only half, which about evens out. So cost efficiency wise you are doing about 2-3x better with arc emitters, a bit less if you factor in the naval cap. But there is also another fact and that is that your rated fleet power will be really low, which makes the AI split up their fleets and lets you focus fire them one at a time.
One really important thing to stay at range are the carrier combat computers. You dont really need the artillery computer range bonus if you have range bonuses from admirals and colossus, but the carrier computer lets your ships stop at 150 range and not close into the enemies further. Another thing that really helps are level 1 engines as they further prevent your battleships from flying in. If you do both of this you essentially get double the time before the enemy comes into firing range. I tested this with save games and the carrier computer makes a huge difference.
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Do you mean Juggernaut, or am I missing out on something awesome about my Colossus?
This is the 25x crisis thread: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/so-thats-what-a-25x-crisis-looks-like.1495439/
Lessons to learn from this: Your normal ship configurations won't work anymore. Crisis ships get a +3.750 % bonus to damage, meaning that a shot from a particle lance deals 22,500 to 56,250 damage. Unless you got tons of defense repeatables, they will one-shot everything.
But seeing your 41k research i'm guessing you'll be fine. Even if you'll use your entire fleet you can just do what I did to win in the end: Naked Disruptor Corvettes.
And in the unlikely case you do lose all your ships against the first 18mil of fleet power: Fortifying your planets with planetary shields and fortresses works wonders in stalling their progress. At least with the Contingency.
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