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I'm having difficulty figuring out what to do with the vast weapons selection.
What are the different use cases for Bolts vs Beams? It seems bolts have about 20% more dps (half the cooldown), and beams have about 20% better tracking and range, and about 10% better accuracy. I'm not very familiar with stellaris combat mechanics, so I'm not sure how to value these stats.
Ship design isn't exactly my biggest interest in the game. I would like to focus on one set of weapons for the entire fleet, and then swap science directorate focus if needed when I come across a particularly specialized and difficult rival. Playing as a pacifist Federation, which technologies would you recommend:
1. To start with (Romulans just started claiming my systems)
2. To stretch for. Any meta builds that have excellent synergies once I discover them?
I was happy when I played the borg because their main laser weapon is awesome, so I just switched to torpedo technologies that complemented it whenever I came across new ones, and ignored everything else =)
What are the different use cases for Bolts vs Beams? It seems bolts have about 20% more dps (half the cooldown), and beams have about 20% better tracking and range, and about 10% better accuracy. I'm not very familiar with stellaris combat mechanics, so I'm not sure how to value these stats.
Ship design isn't exactly my biggest interest in the game. I would like to focus on one set of weapons for the entire fleet, and then swap science directorate focus if needed when I come across a particularly specialized and difficult rival. Playing as a pacifist Federation, which technologies would you recommend:
1. To start with (Romulans just started claiming my systems)
2. To stretch for. Any meta builds that have excellent synergies once I discover them?
I was happy when I played the borg because their main laser weapon is awesome, so I just switched to torpedo technologies that complemented it whenever I came across new ones, and ignored everything else =)
There are 3 key stats to consider in terms of accuracy and tracking:
Accuracy is the MAX potential for your weapons to hit.
Evasion is the enemy ship's ability to avoid getting hit.
Tracking is how well your weapons adjust for the enemy ships' evasion (it cannot exceed evasion, so anything beyond their evasion is wasted).
So, in total, your chances to actually hit the enemy ship is Accuracy - (Evasion - Tracking).
In other words, if your weapon has an accuracy of 90% and you have tracking of 20% and the enemy ship you are attacking has an evasion of 40%, your ACTUAL chance to hit would 90 - (40 - 20) = 70%.
In short, accuracy up to 100% is always good while tracking is just as good UNLESS it puts your tracking above the enemy evasion (at which point accuracy is better).
Range is, as you would expect, how far away your ship is from the enemy before it is able to fire. The faster you can start doing damage, the better off you'll be.
If you don't want to worry about ship design, you don't really need to. Actually designing ships will give you an advantage over the AI, but if you just let it do it's thing you won't be any worse off than the AI is.
Thanks for the quick run-down!
I've mostly been using all bolts and no beams because the range component doesn't seem as important in this mod, where battles seem to take quite a bit longer (I actually enjoy slowing down game time and watching all the beautiful ship models glide around
). I have used beams when it would put my weapons range above the range dictated by the combat computer.Ignoring the range considerations, it appears that trading the 20% damage increase on bolts would require a nominal increase of 20% for (accuracy + tracking) to be equal in effectiveness (assuming that the enemy still has evasion to be countered). In that case, each beam hit would do 20% less damage, but hit 20% more often. Looking at MK I Phasers, I only get +9% accuracy and +5% tracking on small beams, so it wouldn't be worth using beams (ignoring range).
Am I mistaken in devaluing range so much in this mod? Anything else?
Also, any general strategies for early Federation (particularly vs Romulans), or meta strategies (for general-purpose use cases)?
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Thanks for the quick run-down!
I've mostly been using all bolts and no beams because the range component doesn't seem as important in this mod, where battles seem to take quite a bit longer (I actually enjoy slowing down game time and watching all your various ship models glide around
Ignoring the range considerations, it appears that trading the 20% damage increase on bolts would require a nominal increase of 20% for (accuracy + tracking) to be equal in effectiveness (assuming that the enemy still has evasion to be countered). In that case, each beam hit would do 20% less damage, but hit 20% more often. Looking at MK I Phasers, I only get +9% accuracy and +5% tracking on small beams, so it wouldn't be worth using beams (ignoring range).
Am I mistaken in devaluing range so much in this mod? Anything else?
Also, any general strategies for early Federation (particularly vs Romulans), or meta strategies (for general-purpose use cases)?
I generally agree with your take on range in this mod, and I do the same (I don't really worry about range unless it takes me below the combat computer range). That's only really a big issue when it comes to weapons that can actually destroy a ship in the opening salvo which takes more damage than I've seen in this mod.
One thing to keep in mind, I'm 99% sure the displayed DPS already takes into account accuracy (but not tracking/evasion), so if a weapon shows better damage it's probably better. What I pay more attention to is the general category of weapons (e.g. penetration, anti-shield, anti-armor, etc.) and adjust based on that if it seems worthwhile, otherwise I just favor damage as long as the range matches the combat computer I'm using. That's not really an issue between beam weapons vs. bolt weapons, though. About the only exception to that is if it's a turret weapon that's meant to be providing flak/point defense (anti-missiles), in which case damage isn't that important while tracking very much is.
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Really interesting conv guys - will take note!
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