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Originally Posted by Paisley
Take Round 14 stats for example.
http://www.clawofdarkness.com/pawiki..._14_Ship_Stats
What made those stats good was the ability to steal ships that feed your fleet. take terran bs/cr attacking xan for example your syrens would fire at the ghosts first. If the xan decides to keep his peacekeepers/lancers or both de the peacekeeps hit the syrens but then gets stolen off the wyvern at 0 loss.
which in turn the stolen xan de strengthens the ter de fleet.
Granted that stealers didnt die when those stats were made.
Athough the new ship stealing cov op does provide ships but no where in the quantities that playing r14 would have produce so this might just be the path through decent testing.
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thank you. There was a lot of protesting at first when people realised I was actually going to use these stats in round 14. It was actually quite limiting as the higher class of each non zik race stole the class of the lower class, but to stop steal chains that meant that Zik could have no steal ships in those classes (fi/co/de). I'm not sure how it'd work with ETD now; you'd probably have to have etd with a de/cr fleet to go with terran's de/bs, cath's co/cr and xan's fi/fr (or similar). Either that or acknowledge the risk of steal chains.
I would only think it worthwhile having this research if:
1) all races could do something similar or
2) each race had another powerful ability - it'd have to be something like Cath could init roids at half the price, or increase emp damage by 20%, or similar, and Terran have an armour buff, or get a refinery bonus of 10-20% or something, and xan get a distorter/security centre buff (?), and etd get a salvage buff (e.g. salvage when attacking).