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Re: Ramscoops, which one to use? Sat, 03 May 2003 06:35 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I think Zoid's lookin at it from the wrong angle.

Most people who take IFE take NRSE to claw back some points. It's not a case of people pro-actively taking NRSE and then having to take IFE to make up for it.

Any race that can research a reasonable ram scoop engine quick enough (IT, AR, any -F and HE are good examples) shouldn't really take either... unless they have propulsion tech expensive.

A nice little trick when I'm IT is to take Radiation immunity (the best immunity IMHO) and neither IFE or NRSE, then research to tech 6 in propulsion and bang... the radiation ram scoop. A sweet little engine for the early game... granted it's warp 9 capability is non-existent but it's a better engine than the fuel mizer for pretty much everything bar scouts and the fuel x-ports. But this is a different arguement.


NRSE is something taken to offset IFE. I mean lets face it... and race that doesn't want to research propulsion NEEDS the IFE of it's gotta be an IT (why the hell would an IT NOT research propulsion????????). NRSE is just something that doesn't hurt too much to any race that plans to mainly use the mizer for a long long time and helps get some points back.

my 2 cents

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