The bad, bad Leroy Brown of survey ships...

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Am I reading my display right? When I run over a piece of space junk and get a bonus to my ship i.e. +1 to weapons, +4 to hit points, those are being applied to my survey ship?
Because at the moment I've got a survey ship with 71 hit points an attack of 7 and a defense of 15! Now I've just started playing but it seems like this ship would be one bad mother in a battle, I mean aren't we talking battlecruiser stats at that point? Or am I missing something?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, that's the whole point. It turns from being a harmless explorer into something pretty tough. But it takes a long time to get that powerful, and sooner or later someone will develop a battleship or dreadnaught that can take it down, and it's not like you can produce an army of powerful survey ships.


~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I've seen games where the Hero could stand up to Overlords :) Never excaliburs, though (at least not unless the excalibur is attacking).
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I'd save some of those anamolies for the rangers, since the ranger start out about as powerful as dreadnaughts, but can escalate quickly in power.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
that's a good idea about rangers but you can't really save anomalies can you? I thought they appeared and disappeared randomly.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
they appear randomly, but afaik they don't disappear. the reason you can't save em though is because other races will pick them up too.