I agree, but ShadowSlayer56 is also correct, the player's AM is normally full when he successfully bombed a planet to silence. That's why I rarely research the tech.

Maybe the tech can change as either:

- the player can harness a small amount of AM per some amount of bombing damage; say, 1 AM per 10 damage;

- or the player can get a bonus of AM after bombing the planet to silence, even exceeds the max AM limit. (a little similar to the Nanite Reactive Armor)

Your AM may be full once the planet is destroyed, and then again it may not.

It depends if you took the time to clear the gravity well before bombing or if you've snuck some siege frigates in, and possibly a Revelation, and bombed the planet while in combat.

There you go, 75% increased AM regen for the rest of the battle.

Even if you've killed all enemy ships and structures before bombing the planet, the bonus lasts long enough that it will still be there for your next battle, unless you sit idle and do nothing.

Basically it's to give the Advent Rebels some momentum. If you let them get one planet, they'll keep going until you crush their fleet because their shields and hulls will be getting replenished very fast and AM will not be running out so they can go from the first planet to a whole series of planets non-stop.

he was talking about my suggested change

Pat, how long does the regen actually last? the tech doesn't tell you any of the actually statistics like how long it lasts and how much gen it gives ( like many of the techs and abilities in this game for whatever stupid reason...)

Cleanse and Renew is totalgarbage.  The slot could be used by something more useful.  I never research this.

after more testing i have determined that the amount of regen it gives is fine but it does not last long enough. i think upping the time to 3 or 3:30 minutes would make this ability worth getting

My only gripe is that planet raiding for credits is ALWAYS beneficial where the anti matter regen is ONLY beneficial if you use it in the time alloted. I like the idea of having it trigger with cap ship, titan, or starbase death idea better than the current implementation. Or, you could make it add a set amount of extra antimatter on a ship, completely separate from normal antimatter, which is consumed when your existing antimatter stores are depleted. The normal antimatter regenerates normally and the extra antimatter just sits there until you run empty then you delve into the extra store. It does none of this use-in-2-minutes nonsense -- it is stored and can be used in the future just like the credits from raiders. Then it becomes ALWAYS useful like TEC.

or make it a defensive measure - if a ship or structure in a gravity well is under attack it could trigger, which may synergize somewhat with whatever tech that boosts credits when forcing enemy ships out of your system.

Might be useful it it had a superlong duration like the loyalist's Assimilated populace so that by staying on the offensive you could potentially keep it up at all times.

The problem is that the time you which you need antimatter least is immediately after conquering a planet.  At that point you've already won the battle- and more to the point it doesn't allow you to just immediately move on to the next conquest as leaving your newly acquired world unattended is just asking for the enemy to try to take it back- and in the time it takes to drop down some rudimentary fortifications most of your ships will have naturally regained plenty of AM anyway.

honestly though I really like the idea of having it trigger when an enemy capitalships or titan in the well is destroyed.  It would make the buff vailable in combat and encourage a certain style of play(first priority becomes dropping some capitalship).