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Suicidal Domination? HOW?!!

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I always see these people on the forums who have 25 victories in the metaverse on suicidal and quite frankly im jealous. I look at the strats and i do the classic "set your taxes to zero for pop" and "constantly adjust your industry" and for some reason when ever i get a leg up on the AI it surpasses me whats the deal?

my race plays with the + 20 economics, +30 population growth, and +30 moral with fedralist party. I rush buy a factory first then que starport and put a happyness structer and on and on untill a have a farm and eco structure. not to say i dont have the planets covered in trade centers but they are usually low class (4-7). what am i doing wrong?
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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, I'm a big fan of the Positronic Torp II as well. Though I've only played smaller map sizes so far, so all the real fighting has already been done by Psyonic Beams before I finish the ~65k research to get PT2...
Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the info on Ships and stuff. I appreciate it. I was a bit confused about it.
I'm going to have to try that stuff.

How does the defense work? I understand the square root thing. But if the comp has 200 missle defense, would 600 missle attack be equal to 400 + (whatever square root of 200 is) mass driver or beam weapon attack?

Another thing I'm concerned about is the defense bug. Cause I've tried two different instances of making 3 or 4 ships with all attack power and changing it so the ships had atleast 10 defense in armor and missle defense.

I already had a fleet of 3 to 4 ships I added them together so I had 7 or 8 ships (mixture of mostly small and medium, maybe 1 large) and attacked an enemy fleet of 6 ships and with the all attack fleet only 1 medium survived. When I reloaded it and did it with the ships that had some defense I believe 2 or 3 ships survived. So it was quite confusing.

Another thing is I've had 2 dreadnaughts one with missle weapons and other with mass drivers. The one with missle weapons had half its hp and I had them attack 1 troop transport with 191 missle attack and it killed the half hp dreadnaught. I was sick after that.
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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think I know how defense is working under the very latest patch, but I am definitely not sure any more...I'm hoping someone else out there is sure and will reply. If not, I'll go through how I think it currently works.

I do know that if you make a ship with ~twice the total attack value of the enemy fleet/ship it becomes almost indestructible. Which is at least useful from the practical side.
Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
yeah but thats like impossible with the miniaturization bonuses the comp has I think.
But it would be nice though.

I only have patch 1.5, I think there is like a 1.5x or something. I haven't gotten that yet.

Yeah I'm hoping someone can explain it too. Also would like to know what the defense bug is.