Superior Duranthium armor is unbalanced

Not realy a bug but potentialy a big gameplay destroyer

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After the Beta2a patch, a new form of armor is unlocked called Superior Duranthium. You get this armor with the same tech as Duranthium III, but it damage absorbtion is twise as high (making it ywise as effective). Although the cost of a unit is 20bc highter, on average it is cheaper for protection/cost.

I.M.H.O This armor is way unbalanced. It allowed me to construct a spaceship which singlehandled killed several Yor fleets witout a scatch.


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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Maybe its because to balance nanoripper. which is too powerful but costs alot too.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think this is W.A.D.
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Works As Designed?
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
OMG dont complain about it!! They'll nerf (make everything suck) the bejeezus out of the game in the next patch...be happy you can mop the galaxy with a single ship. Think of all the BC you save by only having one ship do the work of several armadas. And if you want more of a challenge then dont research the tech.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That's the beauty of this game. The ship components are so easy to mod, it would take less time for you to just go in and make the armor have whatever values you wanted than to write up a bug report/complaint about it.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That's the beauty of this game. The ship components are so easy to mod, it would take less time for you to just go in and make the armor have whatever values you wanted than to write up a bug report/complaint about it.

Unless you are playing Metaverse games!
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The balance problem is that Superior Duranthium is cheaper and smaller than Kanvium, with identical absorption. It obsoletes all three Tri-Strontium techs as well.

Superior Duranthium
Cost: 70
Absorption: 4
Size: 5 + 3% Hull Size

Kanvium
Cost: 80
Absorption: 4
Size: 6 + 3% Hull Size

Version v1.3 beta 3X last updated on: Wed Aug 30 19:23:43 2006