I think the Death Ray and the Devastator Pulse are level 9 tech, so it should take about 4 times more steal missions than a level 7 tech like the most advanced Titan beam.

<r> If I use democracy I get 241 (+20% maintenance from government). I get 171 with Despotism (-15% maintenance from government).<br/>
Either your DW has 30% less maintenance than mine for some reason or you clicked Despotism instead of Democracy.<br/>
I think it makes more sense to test with ...

<r> Did you use a government (like Despotism or Military Dictatorship) or a race with a ship maintenance bonus? <br/>
The ship designer takes into account the race, government and command center (if any).<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Data<br/>
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750 to build<br/>
171 to maintain<br ...

<r> Purchase Cost in 1.5.0.8 seem to have increased to <B><s>[b]</s>10<e>[/b]</e></B> * ResourceAmount * ResourcePrice. As the minimal resource price is 5/6 or 0.833... (displayed as 0.8) the minimal purchase cost is 8.33x the resource amount.<br/>
Maintenance Cost seem to have been reduced to <B ...

<r> Some time ago (1.0.6.0) I derived the formula to something like <br/>

<CODE><s>[code]</s>Actual Energy = ((Solar+X-Ray+Microwave)/92.5) * (1 - (Distance to the Star/24K)) * Potential energy<e>[/code]</e></CODE>
But the formula might have changed and I'm not really sure of the constants.<br ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Data<br/>
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No, this is the only such combo and I'm pretty sure it was not intended as generally DW does not allow benefits from stacking
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I'm pretty sure that it was intended. Finding the maximum speed, maximum energy and ...

I think the period is 1/2 day, so with 5 you should have 100 in 10 days (at 100%).

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: J HG T<br/>
Just out of interest: Why it seems that everybody go for the fusion-reactors? Apples and oranges?
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1) While fusion reactors are less efficient than Quantum reactors size and price-wise, fusion reactors are 50% more fuel ...

<t> The hyperdrives consume more power as they improve, however their efficiency (speed/power) increases. That's means that they won't become slower even when they improve even if they don't receive enough power. Last time I checked the exception were the Dhyut hyperdrives that become a little less ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Merker
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>help, I can't see the picture. There are only a frog picture that say domain unregistered. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Hmm, I think that might be from your browser or something, because I haven't had this problem, or anyone else so far ...

<t> Another problem of area weapons is that they often fire at maximum range where they do less than 20% of their stated damage even if the ship is configured to fight at point blank, with friendly ships closer so they do more damage to friendly ships than to enemy ships and they will take a long ...

Retrofit is the word.

<r> From converting the component stats in a system of lineal ecuations and running them in a symbolic mathematics program (Maxima) and testing I figured out that the formula for calculating the manteinance costs of a ship in vanilla DW 1.0.6.0 is:<br/>

<HR>[hr]</HR>ManteinanceCost = 1 + ( 2 ...

<t> It it was real life once you have total space supremacy around the planet the enemy would be pretty much doomed. The enemy ground forces outside targets valuable to your empire would be destroyed from the space and the ones inside would be forced to fight on your own terms, that is you could ...

<r> Here it is a thread about superweapons <URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2456271&mpage=1&key="><LINK_TEXT text="tm.asp?m=2456271&mpage=1&key=">http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2456271&mpage=1&key=</LINK_TEXT></URL><br/>
I don't know what their stats are in the ...

<t> I don't have the expansion yet but in the vanilla DW it's hardly an exploit because building enough energy collectors to provide energy is more expensive than building enough reactors.<br/>
Energy Collector EC-100 20 resources = $160 output 24 $/Out = 6,7<br/>
Fission Reactor FS-100 26 ...

<t> The picard manouver is exiting hyperdspace at point blank distance from the enemy. I don't think it's a good idea to allow ships to exit hyperspace closer than what it's now because that would make long range weapons useless and space ports useless (as transport ships could exit hyperspace and ...