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icon5.gif  Ramscoops, which one to use? Tue, 25 February 2003 18:59 Go to previous message
Micha

 

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Registered: November 2002
Location: Belgium GMT +1

To ram or not to ram?[ 50 votes ]
1. Yes! I love scooping! 24 / 48%
2. No thanks, too much unwanted research. 26 / 52%

In recent discussions on the rgcs (also posted this message there) about NRSE I got curious which of the ramscoop engines are _used_ in a Stars! game.
I have little experience with them but given that often not taking NRSE means taking prop research normal I can imagine that several engines are skipped and never used. At least I do this with normal engines, I always have IFE (with the exception of the "not LRT" game I'm now playing in) and therefore never use the QJ5, LH6, DDL7 or TGD. Early on FM for all ships, AD8 for CCs (not LFs) and than the IS10 for everything else (although the FM is still used for special ships).

So what about ramscoops? The rad ram looks like the cheapest and good to put on minelayer and that sort of ships (unless you have IFE? _DO_ people take IFE with ramscoops??), useless to put on troop transports (unless your pop is adapted to the radiation).
So what do you use on your MFs and privs early on (again the question if there is the FM or not), what on your LFs when you get to that con level (prop9?), CCs, BBs?
Would you really build BBs with the prop12 ramscoop? And lose 1/10 every time you go warp10? How big is that gap between prop12 and prop16 if you have prop cheap? Quick look says about 80k? Seems like a lot when you want that around 2450-60 ...

Comments?

kind regards,
mch

[Edit: added a poll, might be interesting.]


[Updated on: Tue, 25 February 2003 19:06]

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