Well the mine issue has been pretty well explained so i wont bother with it.  Here's some suggestions from playing around with each empire for a pretty brief amount of time, only in single player.  Alot of this is aesthetic type stuff.

TEC-

• The glowing effects at the top of the TEC starbase keep appearing on the sides of the starbase.
• The icon for Civilian and Warfare research seem to be mixed up
• Because the voice for the siege frigates was reused for the new torpedo cruisers, they sometimes mention bombing planets.  I understand resuing the voice but it should be possible to remove the specific phrase about planet bombing

Vasari-

• There needs to be some kind of effect in between the segments of the starbase, it looks silly with just empty space.  Put some energy tendrils in there or something.

Advent-

• Change the name of the Security tab in research to Sanctity.  it sounds more spiritual and maintians the word pseudo-rhyme
• I noticed the AI build a lot of scouts for some reason.  It happened toward the end game and there weren't any other races left so Im not sure if it affects them but i dont see why it wouldnt.
• Make the homing mines destroyable when they are tracking

Like i said i have not played too extensively (I only got the beta the other day) but these are just a few small things I noticed.

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I haven't been able to play the beta for Entrenchments yet, but I thought of something while I was playing Sins of a Solar Empire today.

Has anyone noticed that pirates keep attacking after all bounty has been rewarded? I just think its a little odd.

After all, these pirates are actually mercenaries. You pay them, and they kill people.

Along this train of thought, most mercenaries don't go beyond the call of duty. What I mean by that, if mercenaries stop getting paid, they stop killing people.

I think if the money runs out, they should turn tail and go attack someone else.

I don't know. I just find it weird that pirates will wipe out a planet for 250 credits, they'll do the same job if you pay them 100000 credits.

I don't know how to code so I don't if implementing this wouldn't be worth the trouble.

Anyways...

Thanks for your time and a merry christmas to all =]!!!

Starbases should be in end-game statistics.

Sheild upgrades should effect starbases.

The new units should have their own unique qoutes.

Starbases need a range boost.

There should be a cap on the number of mines per gravwell. Mines should also be invisible.

Scouts should detect mines across a much wider area.

I strongly disagree with this idea. Thats like saying we should have an option to turn off carriers.

I agree. I also think that it is stupid how pirates seem to be braver then the enemy military. Pirates never retreat even if they are outnumbered 10 to 1.

Pirates should retreat if outnumbered. However, they should come back before long if there is still bounty on the player.

Not only do they make it longer but it also increases the potential for lag, so for purely performance wise reasons mines should be toggleable, and adding an option to turn on/off capital ships is actually a pretty cool idea now that you mention it. If you would like to play with, you play with, if you'd like to play without, you can play without.

I agree that turning anything off is a bad idea.  It made sense in Total Annihilation and SupCom because there were more units in total, but in Sins there just aren't enough different units to justify turning any of them off.  There hasn't been a single balance update yet, so give them a chance to actually tweak the new defences before complaining they should be removed entirely.  Mines are easily fixed by putting limits and improving detection.  They should also remove the 'invulnerability when undetected' thing.  It just leads to problems with the homing mines.

Starbases require a lot more work so that they're viable in smaller games, while still being an uber defence when fully upgraded.  Right now they don't justify the huge expence they require.

I don't think anybody asked for a complete removal of mines, but an option to toggle them on and off for each game.

I don't see why we need anything more than a simple cap on mines per grav well, and some improvements to mine-clearing abilities and AI mine avoidance.  Seems like that would solve all of the issues aside from the use of minelayers as offensive suicide weapons, which probably needs more balancing as well.

I do think that improvements in the mine patterns are needed too.  They need to be much more precise.  This would also mean we'd need fewer mines overall to create effective barriers.  This needs to take the z-axis into account too.

I'd like to be able to see the SB weapon ranges like I can for turrets and such too.

I agree with the cap on the mines.

Starbases need to be stronger and able to attack more than one target at a time maybe add sheilds to it.

Hangers need to do more damage maybe get rid of turrets and make them an add on to the hangers. Nobody uses

turrets for defenses anyway.

Oh but you can, the shortcut key to see the range of any unit was mouse over it and hold ALT I believe. 

On another topic,

Mines don't need to be weaked or limited just raise the anitmatter cost for the vassari mine ships to 50 or something so they can only lay a mine every 2 mins to stop it being used offencively.

Also they should add a minesweeper unit for each race that will easily remove mines (kinda like how the TEC construction frigates build them it would de-fuse them in the same manner/style)

I dont' own the beta but I have followed threads and know the new units.

One thing i would like is pirates to keep increasing in strength and be you know useful beyone 1 hour. After that they're attacks and lack of shield mitigation makes bounties over 10k useless. I'm pretty sure that with shield mitigation a vasari main frigate and take out almost every pirate ship alone. That and their lack of significant strike craft bothers me. All it takes are 4 carriers to take out even a large pirate fleet. I think there should be mile markers such as if so much bounty was put out. (Example: 100,000 credits= pirates sending a cap ship every time) Pirates are good early and sometimes mid game but other than that their bases are jsut nuesances that are easily eliminated when the games get tough.

First thing I would do is limit mines to 5 per sector. 

Secondly I would tie Starbases to Colonizable planets/ asteroids by linking them together.  By linking together I mean if a planet or asteroid has a starbase in the same zone the starbase would play as a planetary shield.  By doing this you would have to take out the starbase prior to being able to attack a planet.  I would also make it so starbases are capable of shooting at stuff no matter where it is in the sector and have no limitations on its range if you phase into a system you can be attacked as soon as you enter.

Beef up hull points on capital ships along with shields so they dont die to fast.  This will balance out some since Starbases will have unlimited range on a cap ship.

Make vasari ships better and more expensive. Advent ships should be even. TEC SPAM-A-LOT. I want to see this balance. Where one vasari ship is even with 3 TEC. 2 vasari would be as good as 3 advent. That type of balance.