I've recently played a few games on impossible with Cybernetic (and Telepathic, Unification, Rich Homeworld, Large Homeworld, Repulsive, Bad Spies). From what I gathered on here, cybernetic is a big handicap...
However, in every game I have played with it, I easily crush the computer. There is simply little they can do to overpower my ships since they regenerate so fast. It gets even more insane after I get the Automated Repair Unit; Shields are nearly a minor concern! Naturally I use Heavy Armor and whatever that better infrastructure add-on is called in my early ships. Latter I juse use Heavy Armor.
I find that with lasers I can take at least 1/4-1/3 of a Huge Galaxy, 8 players, before I need to stop and get better weapons. Depending on how fast I can manage it, sometimes I nearly take over the entire galaxy with just lasers (it depends on the start and so forth). By far this is the easiest race I have ever played.
I suppose it would be different against a human player though...any comments on that? I find that my main industrial strength comes from captured races. My telepathy allows me to assimilate them instantly, so I tend to just conquer new planets instead of making colony ships, at least for a while. Naturally if I manage to get Troop Pods (I have to steal them or some such, since Battle Pods are much more important), then latter with Transporters it is very powerful; Telepathy allows me to use captured ships in the same combat and Cybernetic allows me to repair those captured ships during combat.
Has anyone else ever worked with this much?
-Drachasor
However, in every game I have played with it, I easily crush the computer. There is simply little they can do to overpower my ships since they regenerate so fast. It gets even more insane after I get the Automated Repair Unit; Shields are nearly a minor concern! Naturally I use Heavy Armor and whatever that better infrastructure add-on is called in my early ships. Latter I juse use Heavy Armor.
I find that with lasers I can take at least 1/4-1/3 of a Huge Galaxy, 8 players, before I need to stop and get better weapons. Depending on how fast I can manage it, sometimes I nearly take over the entire galaxy with just lasers (it depends on the start and so forth). By far this is the easiest race I have ever played.
I suppose it would be different against a human player though...any comments on that? I find that my main industrial strength comes from captured races. My telepathy allows me to assimilate them instantly, so I tend to just conquer new planets instead of making colony ships, at least for a while. Naturally if I manage to get Troop Pods (I have to steal them or some such, since Battle Pods are much more important), then latter with Transporters it is very powerful; Telepathy allows me to use captured ships in the same combat and Cybernetic allows me to repair those captured ships during combat.
Has anyone else ever worked with this much?
-Drachasor
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