Offensive or Defensive research?

posted on May 26th, 2010, 12:01 pm

What do you prefer in MP games?

I usually research the first weapon upgrade when I play Romulan because whiping out ships faster gives me rank ups and reduces damage I take.

posted on May 26th, 2010, 12:16 pm

ive recently discovered that offense is almost always the winning factor in a mp match.

research is usually secondary to ship building, i doubt much research can be done with exception to the feds who need class 1 ships instead of saber spam.

posted on May 26th, 2010, 12:56 pm

Neither Engine research comes first, followed by offence.

posted on May 26th, 2010, 2:11 pm

Sensors for Feds (easier to spot ambushes), Engines for Klingons (need that speed for strikes), Shields for Romies, Engines for Breen Dominion, usually Weapons for Puretech Dominion.

posted on May 26th, 2010, 2:20 pm

i guess it depends on whose liking.

posted on May 26th, 2010, 3:18 pm

Shields for Romies

Reason? Or just for fun?

posted on May 26th, 2010, 3:25 pm

Romies have strong system values (faster regen) and the shield boost means they can hang in the fight longer and live to retreat.

posted on May 26th, 2010, 4:15 pm

I usually go with whatever race's strength already is, to be honest.

  That may sound silly, but since it's a % increase over what they have already, I try to make the first upgrade have the most affect.  Feds getting a shield upgrade adds more shielding for your buck than the Rommies or Klingons.

    Now clearly I don't think that's an end-all.  People can and should do whatever they feel they need at the time, but with Klingons I also usually go Engines and then Weapons, as the Moqbara is coming up right around the time that I am researching more than 1 upgrade.

  Puretech I never really get around to it, sadly ...

  Rommies I usually go offense to take out as much enemy firepower as possible in the opening volleys.

posted on May 26th, 2010, 10:28 pm

Id say it depends on the amount of ships you have lost. If I haven't been losing anything at all Id go with offensive, but if I have, I research shield strength. When I play as klingons, however, I always start by researching shield regen or engines as klingons have powerful weapons and weak ships

posted on May 26th, 2010, 10:30 pm

I normally go with weapons first, then the next cheapest research.