How worth is it to build a Sentry Array?

[Acebrandon117]

Because mega enginering takes forever and I want to know how useful it is before commiting large amounts a resources to it.

[The Silver Santana]

25 years later you will have vision over everything in the galaxy.

It's entirely possible to play without that-obviously-but it's nice to have. You can see enemy fleets before they wreck your spaceports (the one thing the AI is great at is being horribly annoying about that) and you can keep tabs on crisis's or fallen empires.

It's useful. Worth it or not? It's purely an interface thing; it's not really possible to put value on removing the fog of war, in terms of resources or cost-benefit. I'd say it's worth it, but very subjective.

[Acebrandon117]

Originally posted by The Silver Santana:

25 years later you will have vision over everything in the galaxy.

It's entirely possible to play without that-obviously-but it's nice to have. You can see enemy fleets before they wreck your spaceports (the one thing the AI is great at is being horribly annoying about that) and you can keep tabs on crisis's or fallen empires.

It's useful. Worth it or not? It's purely an interface thing; it's not really possible to put value on removing the fog of war, in terms of resources or cost-benefit. I'd say it's worth it, but very subjective.

Thanks

[GC13]

Yeah, I think the Galactic Wonders ascension perk is worth it just for the sentry array. Buy it for the sentry array, build it, then build science nexuses afterwards.

[Sky]

Honestly the advantage of knowing where everything and everyone is in real time is an advantage id love to have.

No one will ever escape my fleets.
And id know when a fight is a bad idea before i even see them face to face.
No more worrying about enemy fleet power. Id just know their fleet power.

But its late game....
Id probably be strong enough by then...

[Krille]

Does it work like an active sensor link or does it survey everything?

[Scar Glamour]

Just a sensor link that covers the whole galaxy at the final stage.

[baldperson67]

Worth it, Sentry Array and the Dyson spheres are great for having a huge army against late-game Awakened

[cooltv27]

if your weak enough to still have to care about whether your ships are a good match up to their ships then its pretty great (and you just build ring worlds afterwards)
if you are strong enough to just ignore what your enemies throw at you then its pretty much a waste (unless you dont have another good choice for ascension perk)