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 There are more implicit factions, which you cannot play as:
   * Ferengi,
+  * Breen,
+  * Dominion,
+  * Son'a,
   * Species 9341 and
   * Cardassian.
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 The second tier of ships can be unlocked with an advanced ship yard. Here the a caster ship can be build, along with the capital ship of that faction. The latter's special weapon is available for research right after completing the advanced ship yard, so not from the point where you have the first research station. The capital ships all have phasers and torpedoes, making them deal more damage and they also have more hit points.
-The super weapons of all factions are a powerfull advantage, but their buildings and build units are rather expensive.
+The super weapons of all factions are a powerfull advantage, but their buildings and build units are rather expensive, both in time and resources cost.
 === Borg Collective ===
 The Borg have a rather strong offensive capability in form of their assimilation mechanics. The special weapons are not to powerful aside from this. Borg crews are the games most effective boarding parties. The faction suffers from the crew drain the assimilation mechanics puts on the economy (holding beam kind of beams boarding parties of 50 crew/sek. onto the ship, draining both vessels crew amount until either energy of crew runs out or the target ship/station is claimed successfully). On the other side they have a strong regeneration capability for all their units ans structures.
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 This weapon has a control key definition bug. By default, all normal cloaks are used with the ''F5'' key. This also goes for the Phoenix, which actually has a cloak. But as its special weapons F-key slot is also activated by ''F5'', the cloak is not usable for human players. It is neither visible as a button nor can it be used with the F-key. Instead, the super weapon is triggered. The AI on the other hand can use both functions independently, which leaves the AI with the advantage to be able to send the Phoenix into battle cloaked.
+==== Game Complexity ====
+Although the game features only four very similar factions with regard to tech tree and ship properties, still these differences make it not a simple matter. It already begins with the differentiation in two fractions with cloaks and without, the underlying mechanics of detector units and the discovery of opponent maneuvers. Then there is the deviation of factions with and without artillery ships. To make matters more interesting, all stations and ships can be captured, including the constructions ships. This allows for combinations that can be very powerfull, e. g. Nebula Class starships with their Engineering Team in combination with the Shadow class vessel with its Shield reloading combination. This allowes to quickly restore entire fleets and base positions after a strong but repelled attack. Or take the combination of Transwarp Gate (Borg) and Phoenix class (Romulan). Once this combination is achieved, the opposing team is pretty much done.
+But also the differences of the ships of each faction can even lead to certain counter unit mechanics, e. g. the Souvereign class ship's Corbomite Reflector vs. the Akira class Chain Reaction Pulsar: Pulsar gets reflected multiple times at the attacking Akira unit, inflicting a lot more damage at the attacker than at the attacked. Similarly works the combination Souvereign vs. Negh'var: The Ion Cannon's attack will be fully reflected to the Negh'var. The Shadow Class ability Holo-Emitter can also leave an attacking fleet devastated as especially the more powerful units will damage friendly units hard. But also smaller units can have surprisingly big effects. E. g. a single Bird of Prey can slow down ships by using Gravity Mines while being cloaked. This can make hit and run attacks impossible, when placing the BoP on strategically important positions, waiting under cloak for their deployment.
+But Hit and run Attacks still can be facilitated for example with groups of Interceptors, which can engage a target and once the reinforcements arrive, simply Tranwarp jump back to the home base. So mostly the special weapons and factions differences bring a certain depth to the game play, even when they may look very similar at first glance.
 ===== Taking Screenshots =====
 You create them with ''CTRL'' + ''ALT'' + ''Z''. But it only works in the game, not in the menu. This means that you can't take screenshots from the final list (stats). However, for some it works that you switch the game with ''ALT'' + ''Enter'' into the window-mode when you are still in the game, and then just make the screenshot with Windows. It's cumbersome, but you get a result. You just have to switch early enough, because ''Alt'' + ''Enter'' doesn't work in menus.