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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Jerkface<br/>
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I dont use any AoE weapons on any of my ships...too easy to blow my own stuff up or hit friendly aliens. What I do like to do however, is load up a single one-off ship design for raiding purposes with AoE weapons, and fly it to enemy space ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Jerkface<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Great argument. It's you who exhibit 2-dimensional thinking.<br/>
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If a area weapon causes friendly fire and all other weapons in the entire game do not, then there's something wrong here. Why want it to ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: MartialDoctor<br/>
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Well, as I design my own ships and micro my battles, I find the area weapons to be great. They are very effective to have on a handful of ships that move in close to the enemy to wipe out a clustering of enemies.<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: VarekRaith<br/>
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I design all my ships.<br/>
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I completely agree with WoodMan and the checkbox idea to disallow area weapons from auto design. Also, the AI should be re-tuned to not use area weapons to the extent it currently does. So many ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: WoodMan<br/>
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I should clarify I haven't seen the AI put the super area weapon on its stations. But my ship design was automated which I believe designs ships exactly as it does for the AI factions, so if it put them on mine I think it would put them on ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PDiFolco<br/>
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Mmmm, in my books I never saw the AI put a superweapon on a design.... To the contrary it removes them when you auto-refit ships after a tech breakthrough.
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According to the posts above the AI uses the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: tiagocc0<br/>
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If area weapons cause friendly fire, then a ship shooting a laser weapon should hit the ship that is between it and the target.<br/>
It's ridiculous to have a area weapon that hit ...

<t> If area weapons cause friendly fire, then a ship shooting a laser weapon should hit the ship that is between it and the target.<br/>
It's ridiculous to have a area weapon that hit friendly ships because:<br/>
1. You can't control when to shoot<br/>
2. You can't control the radius of the ...

<t> If area weapons cause friendly fire, then a ship shooting a laser weapon should hit the ship that is between it and the target.<br/>
It's ridiculous to have a area weapon that hit friendly ships because:<br/>
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1. You can't control when to shoot<br/>
2. You can't control the radius of ...