and I say that kostura cannon shot doesnt affect friendly and own units when it should.

I noticed this , too. But how often does someone fire 6-8 kostura shots at a pirate base when they should be using it to cripple their enemy's fleet?

Plus Kostura still freezes your own ships. What more do you want? Oh, and you can only fire it at enemy systems. So it can't be used defensively at all. Nerf is out of the question.

If you had multiple caps there the xp gained through the MB is divided between them. E.g. 1000xp for cap 1,2 and 3. Never noticed that this doesn't work, TEC players seem to level up happily when they use it in MP

that would be wired ok (no im not retared if you can look at this link i gave a terrible life lesson on the second page because im "Maxim the terrible teacher" heres the link -----> https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/356649 go there and go to the second page and look at my post ok) and what i do to keep the bug away is when there is a huge garason in a system i use all my kostra cannons to sofen them up then i invade when all the shot reaches there target

Besides: In large maps, If I fire a Nova. Warhead at an enemy planet (in another system), but then an ally of mine colonizes it, his planet gets destroyed... a glitch? I dunno, but I still think its funny.

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I think Proletari has a point. When the Kostura projectile hits a planet, it hammers out a GIGANTIC wave of plasma/debris/fire/something that washes completely around the gravwell. I'd always assumed that it was this ejecta that caused the disabling of the structures/ships. So when gigantic plumes of stellar debris hit everything in a gravwell except your own ships, that is confusing. Say you had a a fleet right next to your enemy's fleet. Your enemy's fleet will be disabled, but why not your own?

The comm transmission is a bad example, because the Kostura cannon is anything but. I really is a massive nuclear EMP generator.

It obviously can't be an emp, because the wave is visible. Sins doesn't specify what it is.

Besides, even assuming it is an EMP, the argument that the ships would survive it as they're EMP shielded is flawed. You can use the Kostura on any planet, even other Vasari ones. So does that mean that only a select few Vasari ships (yours) decided to EMP harden themselves against a Kostura? Wouldn't the other Vasari do the same? Especially since they get the same exact weapon?

I'd hypothosize that the Kostura projectile sends out a plume of superheated rock and debris upon impact with the planet. The planet's rotation and gravitc stresses would warp it into the swirl seen in-game. Thus, it makes no sense that your ships would be unaffected by the Kostura.

Umm, as I stated above, your ships ARE effected, they just don't take any damage. Still freezes your ships. And If we're thinking rational, logical explanations, why can't you fire the thing at your own systems or even neutral systems? Nope gotta be ENEMY SYSTEMS. and how the hell does it stabilize phase space for that little duration hmmm?

My guess is that the weapon is a phase device, and since the Vasari are quite adept with phase technology, a simple transmission from central command saying "incoming kostura, prep shields for phasic distortions and prep all stations for a power drain" means the vasari and other allied fleets don't take damage.

Aye, plus we've seen that Starbases can distort phase space, causing damage to enemy units and not your own or your allies.

The real point is we can only theorize how anything works in this game, but the truth is the Devs weren't holding "logic" as their primary goal when making any aspect of the game, so why bother attempting to apply it for the sake of "why this should be like this instead of this". I can name a handful of things in this game that make no sense logically right off the top of my head. Are we really going to 'debate changes' or even point out their absurdity because of it? I say no because it doesn't matter.

You may say 'hey I think Kosturas should damage friendly units as well' and thats fine, but its ludacris to define your arguement with this science fiction type logic.

ROFL it's a game people to the original point, there is no friendly fire probably by design, if anything it prevents accidents or people intentionally throwing the game for their allies.

But this previous post really goes clean off the deep end.  N3rull, before opening your mouth and spraying the forums with your complete misunderstanding nuclear physics and such, you should at least attempt to do your homework on the subject.   Statements like "A hydrogen bomb that can yield about as many megatons as you want (it's just about amassing enough hydrogen; it is not radioactive, so no problem)" had me laughing pretty hard though.

Well, technically, deuterium and tritium are radioactive, just not very dangerous by themselves.  H-Bombs work in the general way as follows:

TNT/PlaExp compresses Plutonium>Plutonium detonates>Heat from Plutonium sets of Hydrogen.

And there are FAR more powerful theoretical weapons than H-Bombs...  The Kostura as I said earlier is a Phase Bomb.  In the book I am writing, there are no phase drives, but the interstellar travel therein still deals with gravity manipulation.  When you send that bubble of warped space at an enemy ship, it can turn it inside out.  

Then there are Charged Particle Cannons.  First off, these things are magnetic so they shove shields out of their path.  Next, they are ionized (its a beam of protons after all) so they destroy electronics.  Then they have a sizable mass unlike Ion Cannons which fire electrons.  Last, the protons are near the point of decomposition into photinos due to speed and temperature anyways, so causing them to impact a target has a tendency to do just that.  And if you fired a "Cold" Particle Cannon, it would still yield a nuclear bomb as the protons fused (yes I know that neutron=proton+electron+antineutrino but you could find the other things in the target...)

Then, there are AM bombs.  A paperclip of it would level Manhattan.  An apple would end life on earth.  A house would blow up the planet.  AM is not stuff you want to be around.

And then you have Evaporation Bombs.  Although we do not currently know how big a boom one would set off, we do know you don't want to be near it.  More than likely though, one would be more than enough to wipe a planet clean of life with the massive burst of gamma rays.

The point is, there are plenty of weapons that could have been used for scientific purposes, but they weren't.  In all reality, missiles in space are useless.  You may as well just fire naked AM.  There is nothing for it to hit until it hits its target.  And, you don't have to pay for the missile.  Sure, they go around objects, but turrets would be able to shoot them down...  

Beams, Particle Cannons, Ion Cannons, Kinetic Weapons (bullets and the like), AM, and Gravity Bombs would be the most powerful weapons in space.  Nukes would do nothing without their shockwave (no air=no shockwave).  Sure, they give a gamma burst, but compared to other weapons like those above...  As far as their fallout goes, ships have shields which are made to withstand solar flares which would be worse than fallout...  Fallout only affects planets...

I'd take a graviton cannon over a nuke any day.  Turn your target into a black hole; make your target glow...  Turn your target into a black hole; make your target glow...  I'll take the black hole maker...

The point is, they used weapons easily identifiable by general people.  They could have dug up some theoretical bombs and cannons that could destroy planets (btw, the Death Star would never work... just saying) but they didn't because this isn't reality, its a game.  Games are meant to be fun, not real.  That said, its still somewhat realistic.

The point is, realism is trumped by the "cool factor."  If it looks good, it works.  I personally believe the hierarchy is as follows:

Balance>Cool>Realism.  Its still there, its just lower on the priority list...

When you fire that many missiles, some of them are going to not work properly.  That was his point.