Agreed, SAEs don't have a lot of use in the crescent - azdaras are just too fast to be affected, zidagar ships are protected.. and azdgari warships are just one ship.. not to mention that the most awful feeling is letting off a bunch of SAEs and seeing them decide to spin around and around right beside you - and thinking, gosh, lovely waste of 15000 odd credits.

I did find a small use for them though, in dominating Freeport.. those ships have no protection from such weapons, and the ones that went straight did quite a lot of damage. Of course you still have to go back to Igadzra to restock them afterwards sighs. So in summary they are about the worst thing you get from doing strand missions, but the Igazra about makes up for it, especially as they give you 5M credits for completing their last missions, after saying they'd let you find the money for the Igazra :).

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Aye, if only the UE would steal SAE tecs and sell them on one of their worlds... I found them quite useful against vikimedigies!

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Yep, that's what really needed to happen more in EVO - trading of technologies.. and maybe having the player go and show the UE people what they've discovered.. or the UE actually making a new ship equipped with neutron turrets and dospect armour after the Paaren station missions. Or of course the one most people seem to think of: the Azdgari hearing of Voinian armour and trading ideas - unlikely with Voinians, but anyway....

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Actually, if the Voinians and Azdgari really wanted to beat their enemies, an alliance between the two of them would be perfect. Just think of Voinian ships with Azdgari speed, or Azdgari ships with Voinian strength... Wow....

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Originally posted by Captain Carnotaur:
Actually, if the Voinians and Azdgari really wanted to beat their enemies, an alliance between the two of them would be perfect. Just think of Voinian ships with Azdgari speed, or Azdgari ships with Voinian strength... Wow....

The Voinians seem to be a very paranoid and xenophobic race. They try to conquer and/or obliterate every alien race that they come across. An alliance with another race would be out-of-character for them.

It's a bit sad really as it means that no matter how much one expanded it nothing would really change in the universe.. it would still be able to be split into distinct parts. Like I was thinking it would even be possible to break the game up into parts and make 3 or so games out of it.. with some modification, but it shouldn't really be that way....

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