Well at least Im not missing something horribly obvious then. They seemed kinda pointless but I at least wanted to ask ))

But you've missed the main point (and shame on you, Motti, for not pointing it out): They are EVIL!!!

Okay, silliness aside, early in the game they can save your bacon. Before you have high levels of miniaturization, every space on your ships is precious. At second or third level min, you can fit an engine, one Psionic Laser (best of the lot for damage and position in tech tree), and enough defenses to make a decent small warship that can hold off early enemy frigates.

Of course, if you play games where you are not being attacked by aggressive aliens when you don't even have enhanced factories yet, the evil weapons probably aren't worth using. You have time to build up your military with higher-level weapons before the slaughter commences.

Sometimes I stick just one on a ship full of doom rays or whatever I am using at the end of the game, just because it gets into the enemy crews' heads and messes with their minds and souls while their ship is being torn to pieces around them; for that extra little kick of the muahahahahas.




Spore. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfrakker in the galaxy. Accept no substitutes.

Evil weapons? I never use them. I consider them a waste. There might be the short window of opportunity where they're the best weapons to be using, but I consider that opportunity too short to bother. Plus you don't have a whole lot to show for it once you get something better.

The good defense modules also have this problem, but the techs required to unlock them have other benefits. You can get a total of +5% hit points, and +15% defense for researching these techs. If you add in the special good structure "Empathic tactical command center", you get another +20% bonus to defense. This makes for a total of +5% hit points, and +35% defense.

It'd be nice to have more of these evil weapon (and the appropriate good defense techs) offshoots on the tech tree, just so that the alignment bonus doesn't become useless so quickly. There need to be variants off of the top of the tech tree, too!

Hehe...Right you are, MarshallONeil.   

I see that they have at least some redeeming qualities then.

When it comes to weapons, I generally just take what I can get. Since I don't put too much effort into researching weapons techs early on, the AI outclasses me in tech and weapons for most of the game. I make up for it in quantity and tactics. Strategic sacrifice and treachery can win out over superior weapons in many cases.