Posted by: xenoscepter
« on: April 07, 2022, 09:49:29 PM » --- I typically go for armor on mine, but some I leave unarmored. They're a little more resistant to enemy groundfire when they're armored, and that's always nice to have.
Technically it doubles the cost, which I assume doubles the BP required to build itThat's the point. I am not a very experienced player and have only faced attacks on my colonies a few times. But always I also had my fleet in orbit or near. I distracted the enemy with my fleet and tried to lure them out under the fire of my STO. In this case, the number of guns has more weight, imho. Also, even without armor, they take a very long time to build. And the capacity of industry is always not enough for me, with the rapid expansion of the empire
Polling the brain trust: Do you typically use max available armor for your STOs? It significantly increases the cost i.e. doubles it from light to medium armor, meaning you could build two lightly armored units for the cost of one medium armor unit. Seems to me like best defense is twice as much offense, but I'm curious what other folks do.Well it takes longer to build, but it only costs vendarite. The extra armor is significant in that it makes the unit potentially twice as hard to kill, so generally I would say: Lots of Vendarite (all the time) & ground build capacity go for medium armor, lots of other minerals needed for weapons and just looking for guns quickly with less build capacity, go for light.
Edit: technically it doubles the cost, which I assume doubles the BP required to build it, and doubles the vendarite cost (which is very small relative to the other minerals), but does not impact the other mineral costs. Wanted to be clear on that.