Umm, I would like the option in the pregame, I NEVER said it had to be for everybody.

How can you guys post but not read?

Why 50?  You are still above what I would pick and I would have it different per ship type.  50 Kodiak's are much different than 50 cobalt's.  That's why its called an 'option'.  We should be able to tailor the game as we choose.

Starbases will always die if left alone, that wont ever change.  What should change is the fact that you spend tons of time and resources for something that is gone in less than 30 seconds.  What an absurd waste of time.

-Jason

I never insulted you.  Your behavior greatly confuses me which is what I said.  You're getting your butt kicked by the hardest AI (as most people would) and in response you want to make it harder.  That's what I don't get.

I don't mind the idea of limiting the AI to counts of various types of units under normal circumstances (obviously if you spam fighters, it should be able to spam flak back at you).  Giving encouragements to the AI to build more varied fleets is fine by me.  I'm assuming the AI is done via some sort of internal reward system, so simply increase the reward it receives when it builds a balanced fleet.

Also, as I'm assuming that something like this would already be in place, I'm curious what fleet you had just prior to the illuminator spam.  Did you spam LF?  I'm not trying to insult you, I'm just trying to figure out what the cause was.  I have nothing against improving the AI.  I'm just really curious why you're complaining about an AI that killed you being too easy.

Still, why should the devs add something in because you get annoyed when your starbase dies?

If you looked around a bit on advice for playing you would know all defences are for slowing down the enemy late game, maybe you are simply playing the AI on a too difficult setting for your current skill.

And to clarify , It would not really matter If you had 200 Illuminators or 50 of 4 different kind of ships, that starbase would still go down.

Why on earth should the devs waste time implementing, testing, and supporting an easy-mode button for one person's personal preferences about how a strategy game is supposed to work? Why would they fritter away their efforts on such a pointless exercise when they could be working on the entire product for a portion of their customer base that numbers more than one?

So far as I can tell, it's not even an easy-mode button that he wants.  He wants a hard mode after getting killed by the current hard mode.  I don't understand.. 

I don't like limits in RTS games.  I remember being very excited about Age of Empires III only to be told I could only build X amount of this and Y amount of that.  I can appreciate some of the reasoning behind this request, but frankly, my only response would have to be rather than forcing limits on certain types of units, perhaps we need to reduce the limits or some of the other things such as starbases, perhaps placing a soft cap on them (i.e. they consume resoures to keep running therefore you can only build to your resource base) or something like that.

That being said though, I haven't had any of the problems you're having and fell the formula is still pretty sound (considering we're still in Beta).

My vote would be to leave it untouched.

I don't like the idea of it being an option either.  I feel that games all too often try to be everything for everybody and wind up getting bogged down as a result.  The devs here I think ought to continue to focus on improving the existing formula.  Every game has critics, and you can never please everybody.

It can't be modded, that's the problem...either the game allows for limits, or it doesn't...

Do you even know what an RTS is trackpads....

No he doesn't. Why do we keep reviving this stillborn thread?

Don't forget to commit suicide afterwards, if you survived that'd be mega unfair.

don't worry, ill want to after shooting everyone... of course, you know, if I'm the only one left who knows about the game and this new rule.... 

Hell no, if they implement any more caps on anything. I am done with this game. Cap ships and Titans are different.

Putting a hard cap on superweapon is a lazy way out of an issue. Nerf Novalith a little bit and everything will be alright, but no, everyone just want to hardcap it. Come to think of it, whats the point of playing TEC Loyalist now while one of the most distinctive thing with TEC Loyalist is gone?

Now, you want a hard cap on all the ships which is even ridiculous. And what the hell is RTS Shooter? Did i miss something? RTS pretty much only exist on PC, except a few games like Stormrise, Halo Wars and Sup Com that also appear on consoles, but failed miserably.