I am in the 'don't want ********* super weapons' camp.  I have searched and searched for a way, or a mod to disable super weapons for Diplomacy but have had no success.

Why on earth did they not make this optional from the game menu?  They really lost the plot on this one.

 What a ******* terrible idea.

Ha-har.

I loaded up my game after activating the mod, and at first thought it hadn't worked, as the missile was still fired towards my planet.  But then half way to it's destination the missile blinked out and my population was saved.

Looks like it works.  Me very ********* happy now.

Now that would be a cool use for the deliverance engine--when fired it reverses incoming superweapons back to the firer,

wow i didnt think the mod would work on a save game either.

i can assure you that if you start a new game, you wont even see the cannons on the research tree, nor can they be built by ANYONE/AI.

Easy, where is easy?  There is no easy in this game.  The daft devs don't understand what the word 'easy' means.  Easy is not in their vocabulary nor their dictionary.

They have no understanding what-so-ever of the word 'easy', so for those that wish to play it on easy then, sorry but you are clean out of luck.

Just for the daft devs.  Having a easy mode means allowing the casual player to play, and win with comparative ease.  Comprehenday?  

since when was playing against AI ever hard? superweapons? pah! death to the infidels! The only game I played where AI gives me a hard time is Warcraft 3 (cause i tend to just play custom/use map settings games) and Starcraft Brood war after they updated the AI. 

No reason to be mean guys, saying how easy the AI is for you. Some people really don't want to play this game to win. They want to watch it. That's one of the great things about Sins, you can zoom in and watch the ships on their own every now and then while you're playing the game, and if you could have won the game three hours ago or played against an AI three levels harder so what? That's not why you're playing the game. You could have played Starcraft instead if that's what you wanted. You're playing to watch the pew pew, to slowly watch your Empire grow from a single planet to the entire solar system. And I could see how superweapons might ruin that for some people, even if that's not exactly why I play.

They actually ruin it for skilled players as well...it was already bad enough that the AI was a cakewalk, relying on cheats to even remotely present itself as a challenge...but with the early rush of superweapons, the cheating AI makes the situation only worse...

If you were to play against an unfair or cruel AI from diplomacy, but you would be facing ship production rates greater than a human player could have...pushes on HWs that normally would succeed in MP would utterly fail in SP simply because of the resources bonus the AI would get...however, investments in SBs that would get you killed in MP could be your saving grace in SP...when going against high level AIs, one simply had to adopt "lame" strategies like SBing every planet or milking the XP with a fleet of only capital ships...

Superweapons just make things worse...it forces you to entrench even more, and widens the gap between what works in SP and what works in MP...it's to the point where playing against the AI is no fun, because it is so far from the capabilities of a human that it isn't even remotely the same...you used to be able to play a 1v2 against two unfairs and still have some fun because it was kind of like being tag teamed by two noobs...it wasn't perfect, but it was more like MP than going against a vicious and simply SBing everywhere or milking the XP with your caps...

But now with superweapons, even the unfair AI basically makes the lame turtling strategy king....it's not just annoying, it's boring...I don't want to be SBing my planets with auxilary government 15 minutes into the game....it ain't a matter of skill or "knowing the right strategy"...it just plain isn't fun....I'm glad the AI now can use superweapons, but it makes the cheating they have that much more apparent....

hmm, i think i think i put in my mod a option to turn of super weapons, those things keep pumping up.

For me being skilled means that you respond fast and effectively to given situation. This definition goes beyond gaming world......

As for being skilled in SINS.

Objective of the game is to WIN. It doesn't matter how or whatever you do. If it means spam 200 corvettes or SB every planet you got. You have to evaluate situation and choose pat that will get you to victory.

as for SBing every world against vicious ai. Yes AI is stupid but they do know how to overwhelm star base and simply upgrading hull and weapons wont work......