Agent of Kharma

Reply to Carrier's are NOT over-powered in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]5. PJI becomes more important. [/quote] Good. I always thought the PJI was underused and underloved.

Reply to Unit nerfs - BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Also the beta changes didn't note any Anti-matter cost change at all so still essentially people can replace SC with impunity. [/quote] I have yet to test it fully, but it actually (on paper, anyway) looks like a fairly significant nerf, even without the antimatter adjustment you want. That's because the longer it takes to rebuild strikecraft for a carrier, the less significant the amount of antimatter it has in reserve. To prove this to yourself mathematically, jus

Reply to Sova, Halcyon, Skirantra - Do Capital Carriers suck or what? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="CreditSuisse" reply="7" id="2069785"]What we're trying to do here to emphasize the frequent use of the Capital Carrier over the Light Carrier which is everyone's favorite spam unit. In terms of absolute dmg output and direct combat usefulness, 6 Light Carriers would easily take the cake over the Capital Carrier anyday.[/quote] Let's say the devs do exactly what you want - the capital carrier is buffed in numbers of strikecraft, and then everyone switches over to using it a

Subspace inhibitor? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Didn't I read somewhere that there was supposed to be a "subspace inhibitor" unit? Second question - does "weapon banks" apply to capships, or just starbases? Thanks.

Reply to Somewhat disappointed... in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Put the AIs on unfair, and aggressive. You aren't gong to beat 6 unfair aggressives. Also, if you are playing teams of 3, you are actually pitting most of the AIs against EACH OTHER, not against YOU. Play 6 unfair aggressives AGAINST YOU and see what happens. It doesn't make sense to bitch about the AI being too easy when you are in fact setting it up to be easy.

Reply to Entrenchment Beta 3 Change Log in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote who="Howdidudothat" reply="9" id="2067207"]That test agent of karma did was lame, and wouldn't have been what I would have built for an anti-carrier fleet.[/quote] I built light frigates. Are you are telling me this was the wrong thing to build?

Reply to Carriers: Is perfect balance a bad idea? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="CreditSuisse" reply="5" id="2068531"]How long would this "Twlight Period" be? I think its a excuse to never change the Carrier at all. Do the research now and get it done. People need to seize the day and ATTEMPT to solve the problem. I would agree with Agent if we were talking about major changes to the carrier but we're not. -A 15% decrease in shields and hull points - A speed decrease of 20% -Increase the build time for replaced SC from 10/15 sec (it is no

Reply to I want to demonstrate carrier counters to you [Updated 2/27] in Strategy Sins Forums

Howthe? - I downloaded all updates, and the game totally wouldn't work because of remnants of Entrenchment. So I had to uninstall everything and am reinstalling now, and it's taking a while. Perhaps reschedule?

Reply to Carriers: Is perfect balance a bad idea? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Hey Agent - interesting thoughts there. As far as your discussion question, that seems to make sense to me. Higher tech units should be a little "OP" compared to lower tech ones. Or, at least they should provide some capability that lower tech ones don't. I can't find anything wrong with this logic, currently. On the poll question, I'll vote on "moratorium to nerfs" until a good deal more thought and play testing has gone into the matter.

Carriers: Is perfect balance a bad idea? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

After some long thought about the carrier and strikecraft, I have come to the conclusion that perhaps we should leave well enough alone for now. This is why. This assumption *IS* debatable, but for the sake of argument, let's say that carriers are currently "slightly OP" (many would say they aren't, and that's fine). This is why I have concluded that it's actually desirable: It doesn't make good sense to *PERFECTLY* balance a game like Sins which has multiple tech

Reply to I want to demonstrate carrier counters to you [Updated 2/27] in Strategy Sins Forums

Howthe, I just logged on, and even spoke with Flipkick. But it seems that I will have to download the new update, so I'm doing it now, but it will take a while. I will be on after if you need a host.

Reply to I want to demonstrate carrier counters to you [Updated 2/27] in Strategy Sins Forums

Sign me up as Agent of Kharma. I will strictly host - nothing more.

Reply to I want to demonstrate carrier counters to you [Updated 2/27] in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]I completely agree, and I think it would be great if someone would host that is capable with hosting without alloy, thereby insuring the replay works.[/quote] I am capable of hosting without alloy. I will pop on 7pm EST and see if anyone has shown up. I will volunteer to host. My terms for offering this are that I will not be an active participant in the game, I will merely host and observe. Everyone should therefore ally with me (while remaining enemies

Reply to Carrier's are NOT over-powered in Strategy Sins Forums

Howdidudothat: Your points are fine, and I have no quarrel with you putting your two cents out there at all. However, I have a few retorts: 1. I don't want to be forced to build an anti-strikecraft capital right off the bat to counter strikecraft guaranteed to come my way early game. Why? Because I like to open with a colonizer capital, that's why. Opening with another cap will handicap me, and force me down a particular path I might not want to g

Reply to I want to demonstrate carrier counters to you [Updated 2/27] in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]However, the carrier spamming team might have to forfeit. Last I heard, they are starting to realize that carrier spams don't work and they know what kind of rape they are in for.[/quote] Try the test against a Tyr, a Cykur, a JJ, etc.

Reply to I want to demonstrate carrier counters to you [Updated 2/27] in Strategy Sins Forums

Howdidudothat: 1. You did not commit a logical fallacy, nor an ad hominem attack. An an hominem attack is an "attack against the man." In other words, if I say "carriers are OP" and you say "what do you know - you're just a newb!" then you commited an ad hominem attack (you attacked me personally by calling me a "newb" rather than addressing my point). You did not do this with your challenge. You are saying that carriers are not OP, and you are declaring that y

Reply to Human Starbase shape in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The rounded shape you are asking for is Advent-ish. The square looks cool, and it also "fits" TEC.

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Hey also Agent, I think the test was a little lopsided, i mean if you think about it in terms of tech. he's using two tier 3 units versus a bunch of tier 0 and tier 1 units.[/quote] This was done on purpose. In other words, I was trying to counter expensive, high fleet supply units with cheaper, low fleet supply units. Thus, if successful, it would have been a "harder" counter. And don't forget, I used masses of the very thing everyone recommends for taking ou

Reply to Testing flak in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]but then again, I head and support the posts than nerfing the dominant unit too much would just result in another spam.[/quote] I agree. This isn't an "anti-spam" post per se. Neither is it a "nerf the dominant unit" post. It's simply an "investigation of counters to strikecraft" post. Beyond that, it's mildly an "investigation into balance" post.

Reply to Countering the Carrier: Now Many Mini-Guides to bringing down the new workhorse (updated 2/24) in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]...all about how I faced an advent Carrier spammer with 118 carriers (plus the holy trinity advnet capships) with just 40 LFs, 25 LRFs, 10 overseers, 15 flak, 10 carriers and 3 capships (Vassari evacuator, carrier, and Kortul.) and this was all done on my enemys planet with all his 7 repairs 2 frigate factories and 5 hangar stations.[/quote] Ha ha, really cool story but I don't believe a word of it. 118 CARRIERS? You were toast. Your whole fleet evaporated in

Testing flak in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

A friend and I tested the effectiveness of flak. He chose tec, I chose vasari. I have seen it recommended to build 2 flak per squadron of strikecraft, so we tested 4 vasari sentinals against a tec light carrier (2 squadrons x 2 flak/squadron = 4 flak). No tech upgrades whatsoever on either side (no weapons, no armor). The first test was with fighters. We simply parked our units on opposite sides of the grav well and stuck them on hold position. I put the

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]What you should do is ... use Light frigates in large numbers to catch and take out the carriers since Carriers are weak against them.[/quote] Sure, if you read my post you will see that I did this. But it's apparently much easier said than done.

Reply to Possible Solution for Overpowered SCs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Bobucles" reply="25" id="2065484"] "I see squadrons replaced instantaneously." Since when? Individual ships take around 10-15 seconds to rebuild.[/quote] Every time I play the game, I see an effect where a strikecraft goes down, and another one instantly "flies" from the carrier and jumps right back into the squadron. Almost like a teleporting effect, but not quite. It is NOT the microphasing aura from the vasari cap carrier, because I never build those.&n

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Also Agent of Karma, why is my criticism of how light carriers can chill at the edge of the gravity well and jump out as soon as anything tries to counter them "getting tactics out of the game" [/quote] Your criticism is over a tactic, pure and simple.

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

A few people have told me that the presence of the hoshikos corrupted the test, so that I did not get an accurate result. I suppose more tests need to be done, hopefully either without hoshikos, or with the hoshikos countered. Unfortunately, I don't know how to counter hoshinkos. I think that with all the flak (no pun intended, heh) that carriers are getting, we are at risk of a hard nerf. That will suck. If there will be a nerf, I think that only a minor adjus