Sir Bhart

I think it would be really hard to balance but custom capitals is a pretty cool idea. It would lead to a lot of rebalancing patches though. What I really want for this game is a ratings system for online play. Have ratings like starcraft used to. Or like they have for chess players (same system I beleive). Another thing that annoys me in online games is that the opponents can so easily just disconnect and deny you the win. If they d/c the game should do something like, if

Oh yeah, and as much as I like Malice, what's the point in ever going above level 1? Normally when you hover over level 2 it shows you what gets improved... but with Malice, there seems to be no benifit in upgrading, so although it's my favorite ability, I don't bother to upgrade it. Bhart

Okay, I just got the game and I've played about 20 hrs out of the last 30 since then (yeah, sleep and eat break, call in sick for work hehe). So I'm still trying different races and I really like the Advent for their charisma. I read that Malice + Brillance is a good combo. I can see why it would be, but brillance only does 250 dmg.... so even if I have everyone take 30% of that, it's not that great really. And Brillance only seems to hit 1 target, rather than a column, am I suppos

I looked at this thread to get tips myself but I gotta wonder about your comment "they have caps before I have cruisers".... you should have caps before cruisers yourself. Your first capital ship is free with construction of the capital assembly... so start practicing with a start like this: build scout, upgrade planet population. scout nearby areas (hold shift and queue them up with your scout). when you build your cap ship, if it's a colony cap ship, you don't even need any other ship