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Originally Posted by Kargool
If so, yeah, I would like to see the PDS back again, as it was actually a good way to defend yourself.
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were a great way for players to defend themselves. Particularly the supermassive planets of R3 vintage who made effective use of the PDS very early initiative to completely destroy huge amounts of fleet before the attackers could even fire, making them virtually untouchable.
On a more serious note, PDS was handy in later rounds to defend yourself against EMP (ie Science or Cathaar) attacks because PDS wasnt targeted by those units, thus ensuring that you would be able to inflict damage on any EMP fleet - generally sufficient deterrant to stop them from attacking you
(Remember early R4 before the Tacheyon Beamer change? R6 PDS was handy too iirc).
These, however, are the exceptions to the rule: PDS only hurts whomever builds it. Generally, only the smallest and the least knowledgeable and well connected players built PDS at all, thus sending them in a cycle of poverty type thing that they couldnt get out of. This was the primary reason why it was removed, a decision that i still support untill such a time as an imaginative solution evolves such that PDS does not hurt the most vulnerabel in the game.
As yet, that doesnt exist.
But yes, the whole PDS thing has been done to death.
The Search button kinda gives an indication as to the magnitude of the death. This thread is brief though!
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