If you actually read my question you would see I was asking how they relate in game terms. i.e are they merely for aesthetic purposes.

Please drop the childish insults, yes the subject is perhaps misleading but if you read the whole post in context you would see I was getting at applied uses in gameplay terms. So drop the attitude is all I respectfully ask. Also I dont want my thread degrading into a flame war so please take your ranting eslewhere.

oh and stars themselves replenish anti-matter at a faster rate, so this can come in handy sometimes.

No wonder some people are afraid to ask questions on game forums when they end up having to deal with people yoadjla.

+1 karma for you Grubber for actually being decent enough to answer the question and +1 for you as well Redwing just for being civil in the face of rudeness.

You are adama.

How does allegiance work with inter solar travel.

if a ship is in orbit around a star it gains anti-matter faster but other than that stars dont have much a use aside from providing a hub that ships jump in and out of system with

A typical star will give a bonus of 2 antimatter/sec to all ships aroudn the star.

Also, stars are important because the game is Sins of a Solar Empire. The Solar part is sort of a dead giveaway to the presence of stars. If this were Sins of a Black Hole Empire, or sins of a Nebula, or Sins of a Mutant Spacial Anomaly, things might be a bit different.

Amazing sometimes how people will flame. That guy Yoad, look at his OP questions and how patient other people with him are for... 1st grade lvl questions lol


https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/posts/3117237

Guys, please don't feed the trolls.

Civility works both ways, eh?

-- Retro

Its cool folks, really appreciate that most on here realise being civil is best for all but yeah RB I hear you and with what you have said in mind well I will just comment regarding some of the followup advice. I think its really useful to newbies, you see because of this thread I got the long range jumps and when I zoomed out I could see LOADS of systems. The thing is I knew stars did have some practical use but there was much I didnt know, for example antimatter regen and strategic uses.

I am playing a huge map called the Areolian sector with TEC, I seem to be starting out well and taking peoples advice about going ecco with TEC, heres the thing usually I at one point have a planet I must hold which has more than 1 entry point, I take roid and then try and take a home planet to the left and the faction from the right attacks my homeworld. Also if I try to get long range jumps and send a fleet to a star , the ai will attack one of my weaker cols. Great fun but although I attack quite early well I have a bad habit of not having enough fleet to protect my colonys.

At my home planet I put repair structures up, gauss guns. Im thinking if I could find some optimum way to get to the star and get far away colonies the quikest I will have a big advantage so is it mid game you folks go for a star, or just asap?

Really adds a great feel to the game stars though, Is it the case that certain factions start in the far away systems?

Either way .......cheers all because thats a whole other aspect of the game opened up! When I seen it I was like woe! a whole galaxy to conquer!

Consequantly I am playing on the aforementioned map with approximatly 8 ais Normal, its quite hard going sometimes. The funny thing is sometimes I start out owning but the ai but I always seem to make a mistake somewhere along the line that has me having to backtrack. (when I have to do this its like the ai starts behaving like a yo yo in and out of multiple systems lol)

I will learn I guess (On that note I think Im going to watch a clan replay today and try and find a replay with good players playing hard ai)

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Rather than start yet another thread, I actually am wandering about how readily the ai uses stars? I started a medium map, myself and nother newbie in mp went on the same team. after a while he logged, so I was left playing with ai, the guy was actually a little better than myself so it wasnt a problem, we just did 4 people on the map, I had taken out 1 of the 2 enemy colonies , in the end there was one enemy colony left, I figured although it was the last colony in the system the ai would have more in the multitude of other systems beyond the star but it didnt so I won. My question then being , does the ai usually use stars?

I played that same map on Normal vs 9 AI's, and they established footholds in the other star systems quite readily. It was probably increased because I didn't pursue as many missions as I should have early in the game and the other players exploited their own alliances to expand while I defended against all of the hostile AI's that were in my own starting system.

What I'll do next time when I try that map on single-player hard is get the technology for jumps early, then spamscout the other stars out ASAP and make my decision on which one to go for. I think that once you have a couple capships, you could send the first one off to start establishing a remote resourcing base, particularly if it's a colonizer.

-- Retro

Yoadj is the reason for my own hesitation in asking the same question. Glad you did, Redwing. Just got the answers I was looking for! Thanks!