1. The texture glitches are odd... missing textures for the cursor, the dreadnaught, the light carrier, the heavy shipyard... and space elevators still disappear.
Did you remember to uninstall then reinstall? That sounds
really weird.
Pirate bases are great, and I think the pirates are adequately defended, though over time the pirates should build up a few turrets, hell even squadron hangers. Also I feel that a few pirate versions of the ... hmmm utility capital ship IE the one which can colonize would be great. They could show up in the middle to late game and set up camps of pirates in places that no one bothered to colonize. All in all very happy with it right now.
I agree, the idea is great. And they definitely need to build defenses -- in fact, IMO, they should *start* with the defenses -- make them hard to take out, so their raids keep coming even in the mid-game!
. I still find the crystal issue annoying, but maybe we just need to suffer through lol.
Actually, I think that was halfway decently balanced -- I actually found myself with an excess of crystal at times (relative to metal / credits).
Edit: I need to be more careful about hitting the "post" button by accident.
I wanted to say that yeah, the AI needs to work on developing its economy more than it is, but also it needs to get improved routing for its economy ships. At one point last night I just about laughed my rear end off watching ships fly *through* my territory to get from one end of its empire to the other.
