Beam Starships

[superking]

Has anyone found an economical way of dealing with beam starships yet?
I lost about a hundred ships just focusing one down... where can I get me one of these?

[RCIX]

I just toss everything in my blob at them, that usually works. Dreadnoughts are a big help against any starship.

[x4000]

Just a ton of fighters will also do it -- fighters are strong against all starships, too.

[RCIX]

Just a ton of fighters will also do it -- fighters are strong against all starships, too.

hmm, i thought that dreadnoughts were the starship counter to fighters....

[FrostyThePyro]

both are, fighters do something like 5x (which with thier attack rait and numbers realy adds up) and dreadnauts also do pretty extreme damage (just under 100k per shot for mk I's!).

[superking]

yeah, dreadnaughts solved this problem neatly

why cant players build beam starships? besides the obvious 'they are massive OP' 

[x4000]

You can, you just have to find an experimental fabricator for them. They are one of a dozen ship types that you must capture via fabricators, via just being able to build from the start.