by fahbs2000
Want some advice?2 big mistakes most new players end up making: thinking dreadnauts and PDS units are worth it.
Dreadnauts are such a terrible value that the only circumstance I would ever get them is if I had unlimited resources, could only build one ship due to build limits, and didn't have warsuns.
You'd think PDS units would be the best for turtling in a system but they're not. You're paying 2 resources for a unit that basically amounts to a 50/50 chance of shooting down a single fighter before combat begins. If you want to defeat invading fleets, build ships. If you want to be immune to invasion, build more ground forces. You CAN develop technologies to make them more effective, but you'd be much better off with other technologies like Hylar, XRD, Enviro, Stasis capsules, and Warsuns.