Gotta disagree with you on the Advent Rebel Titan, it has around the passive DPS of the TEC Loyalist Titan which just feels wrong for a DPS orientated ship supposedly.

Boosting Strength of the Fallen's range (if not the entire grav well honestly) to the same as Purification's would be a good start. While it's true Chastic Burst is a decent AOE it doesn't make up for the fact that Unyielding Will needs serious help or other wise is a completely wasted level 6 ability.

On the bright side this patch has finally buffed/fixed the Domina Subjugator's healing ability, it now auto casts outside of combat. One good step forward for Advent.

Superweapon Limit:  Limiting game options is just lazy.

I don't care that it can be modded.

Whats the point of forums if everyone is playing a different game?

Apparently you didn't read the entire thread.

In my opinion Titans should not be the 'end-all-be-all' weapons that everyone rushes to get and if you don't have one, you lose the game. They should be considered 'Heavy Capital Ships' and at that, not limited to one in play at a time (at the very least make that value something that is not hard-coded).

They should also stuff the Novalith research back into the missile tech tree. If you do these things chances are many complaints about 'Titan this, titan that, novalith this, novalith that' will go away or decrease significantly. Seriously, it's not that hard to balance it in this regard to get a game that largely everyone won't complain about and would actually be happy with.

Sounds good to me!

No counter to the novalith?  I'm fairly certain that there is a tech on the starbases that prevent loss of a planet.  I recall them being different in Trinity but i think they all protect from the same effects now in Rebellion.

They mean it cuts your trade port production in half and the population by 40% for 30 minutes. There is no way to counter this affect other than scuttling your world once you have trade ports setup and before Novaliths come online. The planet loss can be countered by the starbase, but who really cares when your trade production just got halved with a single cannon shell for 30 minutes. 

Funny thing is the Kostura was nerfed in 1.21 because it could disable and damage modules and fleets without counter in addition to opening a phase node. Now it only disables and damages modules for 3 minutes in addition to the phase node (90 seconds).

The Love Cannon can be countered by setting up a few culture centers. Plus the culture output only lasts for 5 minutes. It's other secondary affect is to increase your fleets damage by 25% while nifty isn't really a fun game mechanic IMO and isn't used online much due to it's heavy pre-reqs on the civilian side. There's so many other fun game mechanics that could be implemented with this one. Mass AM transfer from enemy fleet to yours, Mass shield restore, etc. At a minimum enemy culture at that planet should be disabled for the duration of the buff.

The only real problem I had with the Nova was the 30 minute timeframe meaning you DIDN'T have to spam them to get the real affect.

It doesn't cut your trade income in half, it doesn't even shorten your trade route. For the Nova to have any value as eco hamper you have to invest into at least three or four of them, the same money would grant you a large fleet capable of actually taking away planets from the enemy.

Ever since Rebellion beta started people keep getting spasms over "how powerful" titans/superweapons are. They are not. A Titan is taken out by medium to large sized midgame technology fleet. I personally don't understand the "but it feeds titan" whining since your fleet grows over the course of game as well, so unless you are economically broken the issue is not as big as people blow it up to be. Not to mention your own capships and titan level by exploding titans as well, even faster if the destroyed titan is higher level. In a defensive position your losses are bound to be less expensive than the opponents, too, unless you mess up big time.

Novas and other superweapons are unchanged compared to diplomacy, if anything their effect has become weaker compared to then since everything else seems to have been buffed. The main value of supers seems to be the suprise effect, distracting an enemy with fortifying their worlds for a few moments so you can prepare an attack.

People need to overcome that "OMG giant ship/warhead incoming what do I do OMG" fear and actually take a look at the things, maybe they'll start becoming used to devising a strategy against them.

have a minor issue with the patch don't remember it from before the patch.  playing the advent rebels and trying to get military tech achievement on point break map anyhoo.  finished researching all six laser techs  hadn't research any beam or plasma and on the new corvettes the damage output says that both beam and point defense were increased by 1 whereas laser which is in the middle of the list hasn't changed one bit now i know based on tec corvettes upgrading all damage research increases damage of corvettes by 1 and just wondering if there is a mix up where the programming connected beam and point damage with laser tech.

You are wrong, yes it does for 30 minutes!

No one said this so not sure why you bothered making this statement.

The Novalith and Kostura where changed in Diplomacy 1.21. The Kostura was NERFED, the Novalith was BUFFED. These were not done without some controversy even then. It's just made even more apparent because the Novalith was made even more accessible. I thought it was a bad idea then and still think so. The only superweapon that should have been modified in 1.21 was the Love Cannon IMO. 

So ya, I'm curious to see what they do with the superweapons. Limiting the amount of the weapons does open up possibilities to various new buffs and strategies that may result. Or we could just claim FUD and move on... personally I'm for seeing what kind of change this could result in.

EDIT - Read this if you want to get a glimmer as to why they might be proposing a limit on superweapons (https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/421725)

It takes away the trade income of one planet. If you have four planets that is 25% of your (edit: trade) income, given you have the same amount of trade income on every planet. With every planet or neutral well with a tradeport starbase upgrade this effect becomes smaller.

I added the fact that it doesn't shorten your trade route just to make sure noone makes wrong assumptions.

I said that superweapons were not changed since diplomacy I meant they were not changed between diplomacy and rebellion, to my knowledge. I never said anything about diplomacy patches. And by them getting weaker in rebellion I meant that they got weaker indirectly because the factions got overall stronger thanks to new techs. Again, nothing about diplomacy.

About my last post: Lol, forgot how sins calculates negative influences. Of course it takes away 12.5% of your trade income in my example. The "100%" debuff on the income means it cuts the trading income in half of course. Doesn't change anything about the point, though.

Yes I know, that's why I corrected myself.

In your figure you'd need those four Novas first. Again, with the amount of money spent for this you could have gone conquering enemy planets as well. I know, the Kostura can shorten trade routes in sufficient numbrs by killing the structures on your planet. But again you need at least 3 of them.

TEC Loyalists can get them cheaper. I wouldn't mind adding them into the rocket research chain again (but branch out at tier 6) to amend that a little. I don't see any need for a real limit or a serious nerf of the weapon itself. Adding the choice for players to limit supers when setting up the game I don't mind either. But why forcing people to mod the game if they want to bash each other with supers throughout the universe?

Those two are actually the sore points to me with all that disctussion about them. People trying to make them weaker because of AI spam (which is an AI problem, for the 100th time) and people trying to get a hard-limit on them instead of giving the player the choice.