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Re: The Beam Deflector Sun, 20 April 2003 20:08 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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The caps max out at 10, not 7 or 8. The difference between 9 and 10 is small enough that you seldom see anyone bother with number 10. Maybe some weird Dreadnought design would.

For 9 caps you get roughly 2.36x damage. Going up an additional 0.14x damage is very seldom worth taking up an extra slot.

For what it's worth, my opinion on using deflectors in small ships is 'don't'. I usually have better things to put in a mechanical slot, and having only one to two deflectors is sometimes more expensive than building 10% or 19% more ships with the slot empty. Considering that a deflector does nothing against missiles and that missile will normally be hitting these small ships before they go after the big (well-defended) ships, I've never had a reason to use them on anything other than a nubian. I tried a cruiser design with four deflectors, and it was much less durable for the cost than a cruiser with two more shields and the other two deflector slots left empty.

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