theleif

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omg new space paranormal stuff? 0wwwwwwwwww! Will we see space ghosts and rogue poltergeists? The Secret Astrologist that gives you the Horoscope Of Doom?

Hey! I already posted that idea! I would actually love if a host of indirect warfare options where added. Where's the spies with the ability to temporary disable certain structures in a system? That causes local unrest, that makes all your production somewhere temporary slow down to a crawl? The mine layers that let you booby trap space lines? Spy drones to attach to other players merchant ships? Elite Storm troopers th

Or you could try not to implement U.S.A:s current definition of a cruiser on a game that takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Anyway this has been discussed already. cruisers have been different things throught the ages and shouldn't be classed overall like CRUISERS HAVE BIG GUNS

Or maybe they should just stop repairing themselves, not building new fighters and not regenerating antimatter. There could be a chance that unsupported ships warp drive could fail when it tries to hyper jump? Speed and turning decreased? My brain is storming.

Well, i would still prefer "untouchable" pirate bases. After all where playing a game in space where there's a million asteroids where a pirate cove could be hidden. Actually pirates as it is don't play anything as pirates would do. More like rogue nations. "Real" pirates would satisfy themselves with hit and run attacks on trade ships. So maybe I'm actually talking about a completely different thing. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 align="absmi

Don't that depend on how you cap it? Well, as i didn't play the game at that state i can not say anything about that, but if you compare it so CoH (which is, i admit, a vastly different game) it seems to promote an offensive strategy. And it also gives a boost to a player i an desperate situation (i.e. his forces where just wiped out). But then again, that would i know?

This seems like a good place to shoot some ideas Why not have the possibility to travel outside the lanes? It should be really slow, your ships shouldn't be able to repair/regenerate shields/restore their antimatter while travelling. But you could do some nasty deep strike surprise attacks Of course

To clarify: With a soft limit i intend a limit similar to the one in Company Of Heroes. The more units you build, the less income you get, imo a good way to simulate the upkeep of your forces.

Well, actually the bounty system indirectly makes pirates "friendly" as long as you keep the bounty up high on other players. But it would be nice to be able to by a pirate coven structure that creates you own automated pirate corsair. These pirates would not attack other peoples ships or structures but only prey on enemy merchants and resource ships. Or maybe not. What i really want is a way to make pirates stronger . But reading the forums it seems like I'm the only player not

Another idea for pirates is "privateers" which are basically allied pirates. Pirates in your territory that don't hurt your ships but prey upon enemy systems... then run back to your systems to sell their booty, repair, and rearm... You stole my idea! I was just going to post that! So it may come as no surprise that i too like it. <

Imho capships should either get some upkeep cost, or an increase in building costs, supply costs. A soft limit is much better then the current (research) hard limit. Mee 2! Actually i would prefer if your whole fleet had a "soft limit" instead of a hard limit. That would force you to balance fleet size/developement and research. Too big fleet = No income to spend on research for those advanced shields. Cheers

I would prefer: No Treaty -> no retreat non-aggression pact -> retreat to neutral/own systems possible alliance -> free passage I second that motion as well! Combined with: I like this method, but I would a like an option in the diplomacy screen to allow "allies" access or not. I don't like my "friends" getting deep in my ter

I don't mind if super weapons are really powerful. As long as it hurts a little to use them. For example it can cost resources to build the "bullets", they can be vulnerable and easy to take out with raiders, etc. And of course really expensice to build.

My bad Well, actually the whole ship balancing discussion is kind of pointless until we see the other races (species?). I have a feeling we'll all go: Aaaah that's what there here for! once we see them. Or maybe Oh-La-La! Cheers

I agree with scematicninja here. The only thing i could see missing on the cruisers are anti fighter defence. And, just because cruisers, today, in the USA navy are used in one particular role, does'nt mean the future can't change it. So lets get over that and play the game. Cheers

I like it!

Well... I too think capital ships should be researched. Well, research in a game of this timeframe is, as in any game wierd if you look at it logically (you dont research anything in 30 mins). But, this is a GAME . And, as a GAME mechanism it's really cool, and adds a lot to the choise of tactics. So, here's my idea: At the start of the game you build one ship for free as usual. The rest need to to be researched. So, you have a capital ship of your chois

The idea of deteriorating structures i a wonderful idea! I had my first game with cultural takeover today (i've had problems with my savegames messing up), and it was really annoying that all the enemy structures where left undamaged. A slow decay a la unsupported fighters/bombers is a much preferred option. This will make the shield generator much more important and open up another tactical option, wich imo is allways A Good Thing. ScematicNinja wrote: "it takes no longe