Yeah he didn't. The first post of mine about this was probably all those superweapon and titan threads welling up inside of me . In the followups I just kept going with that.

I thought the Kostura only disabled tactical buildings, but damaged all of them. Good to know, with my friends being so Vasari centred I mostly play TEC and Advent. Hope with Rebellion I get to play Vasari, too .

(Also whenever I see your Avatar I gett he feeling I'm being yelled at, that's kinda making me agressive, lol)

The player can only build 1 SB per planet...

The player can only build 1 Titan...

The player can have only 16 capital ships (or 14 if they have a titan)...

The player can have only one HW...

The player can have only 150 mines per gravity well...

The player can only offer a pact to one other person...

The player cannot have all capital ship abilities upgraded, all titan abilities upgraded, or all SB upgrades purchased...

Seems like Sins is a game rife with player limitations...funny how many panties have gotten twisted in a knot when superweapons get limited too, just like everything else...

Yeah, I would much prefer that these limits get changed into settings that we can set ourselves in the ways we want.  Sounds like a good consumers bill of rights item doesn't it?  

I think the limitations on super weapons are not needed as it will severely nerf the advantage of TEC Loyalist.

Instead, i think a nerf on the Novalith's damage is needed where it should not destroy an unprotected asteroid in one shot. Or put a hard cap that you cannot destroy a planet's occupation regardless how many Novalith you used on a planet, such as leaving a bombarded planet with 5% of the health remaining to put a penalty on the taxes gained by the owner. Or throw in a slight effect to slow down the growth of the population after bombardment to regain the planetary tax rate to normal. This will not completely decimate the opponent's economy where a late game player should have an extensive trade network to support their economy. In addition, this also serve as a warning to the receiver that they need more Trade Ports to sustain their economy with low planet tax.

In my opinion, this fits the lore of the TEC where they are trying to ruin your economy to destroy you. This is also to encourage the TEC Loyalist to destroy the planet with their own fleet, than sitting in the base and destroy enemies planets with no offensive fleet. It is unfair and not fun to counter as the opponent with Novalith in its current state.

Both Advent and Vasari super weapons are sort of support weapon on the fleet. Why cant Novalith behave the same? It should not be an offensive weapon to begin with, where it can be used as a complement to an offensive force, such as allow a planet to be destroyed faster by removing 95% of it's health almost instantly. On the other hand, serve as a harassment weapon, to deteriorate a Terran planet's population growth.

Hard cap is just a terrible way to solve this problem. A careful redesign of the superweapon will make it more fun for the user and the receiver. There are definitely other ways to redesign Novalith, such as the Supreme Commander method of controlling superweapon by asking the user to pay for each warhead. I do not think that this is a good option for Sins of Solar Empire.

I sincerely hope Iron Clad will retract the idea of putting hard caps on super weapons.

1 Starbase per planet -modders can up the number

1 Titan -hopefully modders will be able to change it in the player entity

16 caps -modders can get many more

1 homeworld... well, just makes a bit of sense and having more would render allegiance decrease worthless and unbalance economies.

150 mines -moddable to less or more

pacts... pacts, smacts... blow ship up

Capital abilities ??? What ??? -so some have 4 abilities with 3 points each making players have to choose?!!!  Damn that's just harsh.  Good thing 7DS didn't do that with a couple of capitals. 
Titans... wow, same thing... too bad, deal with it.
Starbases -modders can increase number of upgrades

2 Superweapons max -hopefully that can be modded in the player entity file.

cuz super weapons dont need a limit

as long as they get a HUGE buff i guess i might be ok with a limit

I think the point he was making here is that previously you had 3 abilities that went to level 3 and one "ultimate" ability. This allowed you to have everything at level 10.

Now, however, abilities go up to 4 and 2 for the ultimate, allowing you to specialize more.

Actually its not that star bases become outdated its that that dont have a large enough hp/shield pool to be able to survive/kill a titan. To solve that either stick in a research that increases the hp/sp pool dramatically or a research on the starbase that nerfs in system emeny titans weapons to a point where you cant 2 shot a starbase with one

at least that's my thoughts on it

2 is good, if the cannons are good.

I'd rather have StarClad figure out how to get the AI to research not just all the ships and a handful of economic items, but get their weapons upgraded.  Research has priority 0.0 or 1.0, but the AI researches for crap unless it is a researcher and has tons of resources to throw into it.

You're welcome.  Pirates got capitalships, an NPC starbase and module that can capture capitalships.  Rogue are just about as piratey as a player can get.