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Re: Why are they called Nubians?

Thu, 23 May 2019 05:54

magic9mushroom

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jscoble wrote on Sun, 05 August 2018 21:57

Well aren't they?
There's a reason or two that the Nubian hull pretty much dominates the late game era.
What are the downsides supposed to be?

There are a few downsides:

- high cost (the only hull that costs more is the Dreadnought; the B-52 Bomber costs 7 more resources but 25/4/6 less minerals). For warships this is obviously outweighed by the Nubian's substantial advantages, but for the various utility roles it has pretty stiff competition from the Frigate and Galleon.

- low hull initiative of 2. Nubians need a substantial number of computers to pull ahead of BBs and DNs in init. Of course, they have the slots to do that, but this exacerbates the next problem...

- Germanium. Nubians' reliance on electronics and Beam Deflectors means that every viable Nubian warship design will cost large quantities of the yellow stuff. This is a bit of a problem for factoried races, since they likely used up a good chunk of their whole-game supply of the stuff building factories. If you managed to get your grubby little paws on the Enigma Pulsar, and you don't have Regenerating Shields, this one can actually be enough to make Superlatanium Omega Battleships interesting in the Nubian era (not dominant, but interesting).

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