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Again, dodge the missiles! Otherwise you get one-shotted :) | Again, dodge the missiles! Otherwise you get one-shotted :) | ||
== Economics == | |||
Now let's consider the economics of this. Each of the above optimized fighters will be between 10 to 20 BC each, depending on the exact design you get and the exact technology level you use. Building a huge fleet of 1,500 to 2,000 such fighters means you would be putting in 15,000 BC to 40,000 BC in ''just'' the ships, never mind the tech needed to miniaturize the above. That amounts to about 3 to 8 Huge ships, a large enough fleet that can usually stand up to most opponents and crack their defenses, for the tech level needed to miniaturize you would probably have a fighting chance to just defeat your opponents militarily instead of ''first'' diverting your resources into this venture and ''then'' building Death Ray ships. And remember that Death Ray is not very useful against swarms of small ships (remember, the Guardian ''has'' a Death Ray, and you defeated it with a swarm of small ships), so against races that like small ships (Alkari, Mrrshans) you need a different weapon anyway. | |||
If you don't get Mass Drivers and none of the AI can trade it to you (or you can't just steal it by espionage or invasion), you need to make do with 2 Neutron Pellet Guns per fighter (to increase your chances of dealing 5 damage to get 1 damage through to the Guardian's ship after halving shields) and increase your fleet size to 3000 to 4000 or more. If you ''can'' steal the tech, you probably can win against whoever you stole it from anyway. Alternately, use a Fusion Beam or Megabolt Cannon, which are mid-game level and would require even higher tech levels in Weapons and Construction to miniaturize enough to fit into a small hull. Overall, if you are not Mrrshans, or you do not get Mass Drivers naturally in your tree, your efficiency at getting the Guardian down is reduced enough that the same resources to take down the Guardian would, spent in other ways, win you the game anyway. | |||
Still, taking the Guardian down is fun and totally dominating your enemies with High Energy Focus ships equipped with Death Rays is also fun, so if you are in a winning position, you could Abstain in the council vote and hunt down the Guardian and go for an Extermination victory instead. One can argue that the Death Ray, being otherwise impossible to acquire, has infinite price, and the experience of shooting down enemy Autorepair Huge designs is awesome. | |||
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