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How about phase cloaks, the time warp faciliator and auto repair in combination? You can decloak, fire and cloak again in the same round. Then the opponents get another turn not being able to shoot at anything and next turn we do everything over again. The auto repair is for occasional reaction fire that hits you when you decloak. You are almost invincible.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Unfortunately I don't have the patience to play much with those..  
Because it requires to have some battle at the highest possible level of tech and I generally crush them like insects by then! 
But, the few times I did, I did quite enjoy it...
My favorite special thing are the stasis field (maybe phase cloak + stasis field). One can put one or 2 stasis field on a frigate!
Ideally when you are all but doomed with just a few planets left, quickly build a swarm of phase cloaked frigate with stasis field and slowly kill them all without them being able to do a damn thing 
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Yeah, but you need a flux capacitor and I haven't seen one of those round here in decades.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So, you are not a fan of the Achilles Targeting Unit? Or course you are screwed when your opponent is not Achilles...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ooooo... Monsieur is a connoisseur of the fine arts hey!  
I always like to have my High Energy Focus and Achilles Targeting Unit work in tandem! Do wonders!
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Plus heavy auto fire disruptors. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well.. I personally favor Mauler Device... But I guess it's personal thing! 
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As to your game, since I have been there and done that already[^], how about a somewhat wacky weapon?
It's a gravity weapon that does more damage the bigger the target is. Tiny fighters take only little damage from it, while huge dreadnaughts suffer severe damage to their structure. At the beginning huge ships would have been extremely hard to kill. Later in the game a small fleet of agile smaller ships could beat them, especially with such weapons. It's also quite hard to point huge guns at a small agile target. Bigger is not always better.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That reminds me of the black hole gun in Saints Row 4
Real programmers use butterflies
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Yes, but it's an extra that you can install only once. It barely makes an impact compared to some kind of cannon of which you can install as many as you can squeeze in. To little to reverse the bigger is better philosophy. The game is built around that. Just look at the command points a little scout costs compared to a titan or death star.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Quote: As everyone knows, those are 2 very different beast!
Yet Solaris was able to mix them for Kris.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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The two ARE related: at a conference when Fermi was talking about the "Pauli's neutrons" someone asked if these are the same as Chadwick's neutrons and Fermi said "No, no, Pauli's neutrons are much smaller; they are just tiny neutrinos."
Anyone who has ever shoot a neutron blaster knows it is much heavier than the neutrino blaster. The second one you can even keep it in your pocket everywhere in the Galaxy where concealed weapons are allowed.
As for the neutrino scanner, this is not used anymore because the image is too faint. 
Mircea
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I started this morning by accidentally reverting over an hour of work.
Took me 1.5 hours to get it back (And by "getting" I mean writing teh codez).
It's not my worst nightmare, but it ain't no dream either!
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What's decaf?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Decaf = decaffeinated coffee 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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That is highly illogical.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Quote: That is highly illogical
Yes! It makes no sense that people drink decaf! The whole point of coffee is the caffeine!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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dip some bread with fat free butter spread in it for best effect!
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Quote: fat free butter
Now I've lost my appetite! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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According to this The Insider News - Coffee is a Health Drink, even decaf is good for you, just not as good as the real stuff.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well, I have had some nice fresh ground beans coffee this morning so sometimes life is not all that bad, even on Mondays.
Krups, and undoubtedly many other brands do make some nice coffee machines. Long live technology! 
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That would lead to my big debut on CNN.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't shoot! Hold a second!
I just need cod3z, urgent$, pleeeea$e!
Nah, the long story is I am making some pen and paper table top RPG rule for spaceship that are a copy of Master of Orion 2 spaceship design rules.
It's a bit involved to calculate the overall cost of the ship, or the current payload, or the cost and space of each device....
And I thought, hey, how about I make an Excel spreadsheet for that?
But.. OMG... Excel is so wordy, I am crying, give me C# 
And then again I thought.. hey, perhaps I should make an app for that?
But then, I want to share my work with some non computer savvy RPG enthusiast.. and some random .exe on the internet might rightfully raise some worries...
A phone app it's awkward, I will have to publish it, yada.. but even so, how do you get it in your word document hey?
A website, I will have to setup one, gah...
Any suggestion?
Right now I am thinking, perhaps I could make a 1 page spa, perhaps even Blazor app!  
Though I don't want no database and sh*t, but I got all those excel table / tabular data, gotta be a pain to import in the app... :/
Maybe I could use C# 9 record with big constructors...? mmm....
And.. mmm... all the example I found were for Razor Web App... any link / tip for Blazor SPA (i.e. no server side setup...)
modified 16-Nov-20 7:23am.
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