<t> Other than unit proficiency/experience, what else goes into the determination of OODA time for a given weapon in a unit?<br/>
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The reason I ask is because Russia's Gremyashchy-class Corvette and Russia's Admiral Gorshkov-class Frigate both share a SA-N-21c Growler [9M96] Battery, but the ...

<t> Shame.<br/>
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Perhaps a philosophy of exploring incentivizing antagonistic empire-pirate interactions would be better suited by focusing on competition of resources rather than a brute force always on state of war between the types of empire - <br/>
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Giving pirate empires much more ...

Is there a guide on how to keep a protection treaty going?

Empires seem to break them for no reason. I've also never gotten a positive bonus from empires for having long protection treaties (only from pirates). Working as intended?

<t> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if two empires have no treaty, their ships do not automatically fire upon on another, right?<br/>
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However, if I'm not mistaken, I just tested out setting my pirate ships to basically sit there in an unclaimed system near an independent planet, yet another ...