Thread:Qapta1n/@comment-11181609-20141110001804/@comment-11135771-20141110004410

Also, I think part of the issue is that you're going down too many "tech paths" so to speak, and too fast. Although we don't have any sort of formal tech tree type system in place, think about it as if we did. Note how many of the other navies go down pretty specialized technology development paths, which then allows them to have better and better tech of that sort.

Look at Prometheus for example; they have highly advanced energy weapons, aerospace craft, and some things like nanotech fabrication... and not really much else. Note that Prometheus, for all its technological superiority in some areas, doesn't even have MACs. No super soldiers either. Also no big fixed defense installations.

The same sort of thing can be applied to other navies. HYDRAXIS has advanced tech in the fields of lasers, flying ships, aerospace tech, and AI tech. EAF focuses on energy weapons, aerospace craft, warp tech, and energy tech. I could go on some more, but you get the point.

AF on the other hand seems to just be branching out too much to realistically advance that quickly in everything it's working on. Based on what you've suggested, AF would have better than average laser technology, railguns, flying ships, defense tech, super soldiers, telepedoes (which inherently require better than average warp tech and energy tech), and a few others. That's... a lot.

Of course, there's no reason you couldn't research a lot of things at once, but you only have so many scientists, and thus researching more things at since means that you won't be able to make new developments very quickly on anything. Basically, focusing your research more means that you can have better tech in those areas, but spreading out your research means you get better tech in all areas, but at a much slower rate.

Super soldiers, giant laser weapons, telepedoes, et cetera are all basically top of the line tech along their respective technology branches. These are the most advanced things that anyone has come up with in those fields. Especially due to how much AF has branched out on its research, there's no way you can have such advanced stuff so quickly. You're skipping the basics and jumping immediately to having the best stuff.