Why would you not just spent the zen, if you really really had to power-level your R&D skill, on dil and get vastly more exp just from rushing project competitions? 800 zen is around 130,000 dilithium right now, which is enough to rush 7 projects for at worst (ie no crit bonuses) 42,000 exp. Actually, now that I do the…
I see I'm a little late to the party, so I'm just going to agree with what Ryakidrys said. Beam arrays are just plain easier to keep on target, and while the weapon stats aren't as good, being able to keep firing is way more important. If you can keep those dual beam banks on target, good for you, but then your wasting the…
STFs were made significantly more difficulty in Delta Rising. They're still perfectly possible to do, you just probably need to do some work to your ship to make it capable of this. If you'd care to set-up your ship and skills into this website, and then post the resulting link, I'll give you some pointers