best race

advent cus of the motherships 20%-60% planet development cost reduction which is great in early game

and starbases induced reverace which is great later in the game

TEC

I like long games on large maps and can't stand the voice-overs for Adv or Vasari

Maybe this is the thread I should beg for new voice acting?

well i also like large games on large maps and the advent motherships ability allows for quick build up of economic power for later game use

and i personally wouldnt let voice overs keep me from playing a good race because

A) voices can be turned off

very loud music from my radio drownds it out anyways

True, but sometimes on said large maps I need the voices to tell me WTF is happening a few stars away... but you're right. I just love the Marza really...

whats that one do again?

Tec tbh

Personally TEC. They may not have as much in shields and weaponary but they are tougher and bounce back quicker at higher levels. Much like me in a fight.

My favorite race is the RANDOM race. It's just so unpredictable that it's awesome.

true tec has more economic capabilitys than advent

but i think that the... um akkan was it  0-2 free extracters is kinda lame

I actually don't like the TEC that much, which is a shame, because I'm in love with their capitals. But for some reason, I always overextend myself with their economy. I prefer Vasari -> Advent -> TEC. The advent defenses are scary, and the instant-teleport-anywhere on the map ability the Vasari have is even more so. Surprisingly, for these reasons and their lack of true support (not counting the darn Hoshikos) I find them unwieldy and dare I say, a very one minded faction. Get as much money possible to build as much as possible to destroy as much as possible. (Kudos to anyone who recognizes the quote Im sorta playing off of.) Instead of adaptable, they just seem tough and straight-fisted, always coming back for more and never giving up, which makes sense. They (in theory) should make you fight for every inch of ground you gain on them. But yeah, if you go purely on weapons, the beam weapons of the Advent are the coolest to watch, and are sometimes why I play as Advent.

*edit*

I might have to reorganize my favorite factions, from TEC to Advent perhaps....

well tec has the bonus logistic slots upgrade which means moar tradeports per planet and my statagy involves stuffing all my planets with as many trade ports as possible but again i state that 0-2 free extracters is lame

and while the vasaris phase nodes and dark fleet returns is great but the structure build rate increase is only really useful later in the game and long range structer destroying seems to be more trouble than its worth

Actually, the return of the dark fleet is only good when you need forces now, otherwise its a waste of resources in its current state.

And the more I think about it, the more I love the rough... awesomely unique qualities of the TEC... their rough and tumble design... their technical style. It's awesome. And sometimes I love onemindedness. So while TEC doesnt quite have the versatility of the Vasari, they certainly kick butt in their own way. =D

Well I can't choose between Advent or vasari. I'm better with vasari but I change my race choice depending on what my team mates their race is.

And I hate tec... Except the kol.

Grtz,
[_]-Flipkik

Invincible Advent Fleet is Invincible. I saw a nonmaxed out advent fleet murder a max out vasari fleet. His ally, a vasari with also a maxed out vasari fleet realized what wuz goin on, and rushed to his aid. Too bad his friends fleet was almost gone by then. His fleet was then also murdered. Subverters can certainly stop the invincible advent fleet, but only if the advent fleet user isn't preventing them. It doesn't really take too much micromanagement for the advent to prevent the only thing vasari got on them, but it will put a halt to the advent fleet if they don't.

This was all before Dark Armada was changed to cost stuff (after already being built). They had the forever RA. It took forever to kill their RA while they kept rebuilding it and getting more ships/stealing our planets for moar RA.

I was TEC. While the advent was murdering the vasari, my really hard as rocks Kodiaks went in multiple (10+) fleets to destroy the vasari infrastructure. This is all just one example, but it seems to happen every time that Vasari maxes out while Advent is not maxed out, but rather putting together the delicate pieces of the fleet.

All the races really have their own abilities... but it cannot be stressed enough. Invincible Advent Fleet is Invincible.

For me best race is Vasari for their marvellous starbases, phase node, suppression ability and of course KORTUL beauty..:D

i agree the voice acting sucks but it usefull to know if something is happening

i was once busy battling on this plant and my spearker broke

i lost two plant that is a planet becuse of the the broken speaker

Actually, its 10 high level ships(lasuraks, Enforcers, lrf, and the flak frig), without needing to research them, for 60% of the cost normally, and INSTANTLY!

this makes it an excellent source of production once you have more than 2-3 stabilizers.  some games, I just set them to autocast and watch the fleet supply counter, researching when I need to.  if that's maxed, then 1) my fleet will own any other, and 2) although it'll be carrier heavy, it will have an enourmous destructive potential.  and 120 fighter squadrons will own the sky, and will destroy 1-2 capitol ships in one sweep.

This combined with the stabilizer's direct travel make a nearly unstoppable defence, and their phase missiles blow up Advent ships when they still have shields left!  And the evacuator kicks ass. I destroyed a fleet when I combined the with a phase disruptor.  it was stuck there, not shooting, all the way until I destroyed the last ship.  and its nano-disassembler, when combined with volatile nanites and phase missile swarm, will blow up any ship that I decide doesn't need to be there anymore.

 And they get resources from destroying your caps.  (Salvaging research, 3 civi level)

by the way, I play Vasari.

I am Orodum, and I'm a Night-elf Mohawk. (jk)

Am I the only one who likes the Vasari lizard voice?

"Searrrrrrching the planet has not found anything!"

well its cool i guess

anyways i found that longrande structure destroying and planet bombarding are moar trouble then theyre worth

i tend to play long games against bot so its just easyer for me to make 10-20 deliverance engines and set them to auto cast than it would be to mirco manage which cannons are bombarding which planet

i like them to i wish there was some vairty in the voices to