Archaro-Engineers perk.. Whats the point?

[DirishDevil]

Whats the point in using the Archaro-Engineers perk.. you will never have enough artifacts to upgrade your ships or build new ones after wars.. or am i missing something,,, it maybe ok if you are playing small but very rarely

[Xenpo]

The motes (etc) building is great. I do think they need to rework how you get artifacts for the reason you list. But otherwise I generally like it.

[𝒞𝒶𝓉𝓎𝒶♡]

Originally posted by Hari Seldon:

Whats the point in using the Archaro-Engineers perk.. you will never have enough artifacts to upgrade your ships or build new ones after wars.. or am i missing something,,, it maybe ok if you are playing small but very rarely

I usually have almost full stocks of them and like the perk, but i do not design them into small ship types, only to Battleships/Titans, rarely on some Cruiser designs if really got something specific in mind. That perk makes defensive play with really fortified systems semi-worthwhile (when wants to, in sort of rp-runs where wanna play Isolationist etc or just fortify certain important chokepoints)

I don't lose those Battleships and so on that much, i always get surplus of arfifacts, i play in 1000 stars galaxy most often, so ending up having several artifact sources from done dig sites etc. I just don't waste them on things that gets destroyed easily all the time. :) Some designs with them i consider pretty much meta against several things, not everything, but i feel like in at least 1/3 of my runs i end up using Archaeo stuff with the perk. I guess personal preferences. :)

[Immortalis]

The point is you’re supposed to play quality over quantity with artifacts. You don’t need two thousands corvette equipped with archeo components but for the fifty or so battleships and the half dozen titans they can indeed work nicely.

[HappySack]

You're not supposed to equip as many artifact weapons as you can unless you're abusing the hell out of playing as the crisis.