I just want to thank the Dev Team for stepping up and making this game less of a LRM spam fest. I find the new carrier dynamic interesting and entertaining. I haven't played since 2 weeks after release when I got board of thrashing 5 different keys in order to swamp opponents with LR spam units. As you know a little balance needed with the flack frigate aspect. Hopefully the strategy depth will continue to get deeper. <
+++++++++++++++A STEP in the RIGHT direction++++++++++++++++++++++ Just a reminder to those who want to play with defensive strats. USE THE MODS! Also THIS IS A PATCH NOT AN EXPANSION! My wish list: 1) Viable Defensive strategy. 2) Biddable (tech, units,cap ship abilities) 3) Deeper personality (Fleet Captains etc) 4) Higher Cap ship levels. Thanks for your hard work!!!
This is the best mod yet. BUT. I also keep CTD during raids. I have been playing with NO pirate maps to avoid.
TRY THE MODS.!!!!!! The game fails to be a long term entertainment. It ain't nothing but cat and mouse at choke points... I personally HATE the idea of phase lanes. Its SPACE for crying out loud. The WHOLE game would be better if Space was OPEN ENDED with no phase lanes AKA NO choke points but better planetary defense.
After playing for several weeks I would like to ADD: The A.I needs to be more challenging! No one really should be able to take on 3 Hard A.I with locked teams with 3 against one and no pirates. thanks!!
Any chance the AI could be AI instead of AM (Artificial Morons)
AWESOME MOD. makes the game FAR MORE interesting! KEEEEP IT UP PLEASE!!! :D I am baffled as to why the game wasn't released with this kind of "flavor" MAJOR PROPS!!
NICEEEE! Awesome piece of writing.!!!! :)
AWESOME! AWESOME! YOUR WORK IS LEGENDARY!!!!!!!!!!
Against AI cap ships can be a help. Against an attentive human they are LAUGHABLE. I have seen a group of 15 top tier frigates or LRMs take down level 10 Cap ships in less than 30 seconds. IMO cap ships need a higher levels to make them worth while.
[quote]I like the fleet cap / income tax principle. It acts as a damping force on the ability to project power (which otherwise would grow exponentially as you expand), and also the ability to replenish losses. This helps the game scale to a wide variety of map sizes effectively. It also somewhat damps out the dominance of a slightly larger empire over a smaller one (or a collection of smaller ones). However - the fleet cap only scales effectively up to its maximum value. The r
To the Devs and support staff: KUDOS! Awesome philosophy. Its good to see some brains in the industry instead of the cookie cutter market slop that is being published today. The gaming community often divides itself on the publisher/dev of the game and now the word is out. StarDock is something to look forward to..... Looking for more depth in 1.4 Hats off!! Jamel..
[B]The Philosophy behind the bidding of unique ideas as posted above is as follows:[/B] Expansion packs usually follow the same trend. Different units for each race. Different techs. More maps. etc Once a gamer as utilized and mastered or tried out the "new toys" they tend to get "bored" While these things are great and well. It is important to always ask the same question to the gamer: Can you beat your opponent with this scenario? Have y
For starters this in not a rant but these are suggestions. :D From an RTS stand point I am sure you have had your fill of feedback. My stand point. the Unique abilities of units needs to have more impact to stop the SPAM stradegy that appears to be the sure win at this point. MY 4X and RTS suggestions. After playing many games there is little to look forward to in the next game. AKA rush resources and spam units. the whole bidding thing with pirates is interesting
++++++++++Carriers++++++++++ IS this a Bug or somethings. when I COMMAND my Capital ships that have fighters or bombers to attack something..I don't just want my Capital ship to attack the target but also the bombers and fighters.. Imagine my surprise when Maverick over here is off bombing some other solitary target. very retarded!!! Thanks!
WHO CAME UP WITH THE SIEGE FRIGATES??? how in the world did this NukE pot enter the game. I love how they can wreck a planet for the cost of nearly nothing and if you want to counter the silly things you have to send in a MASSIVE Fleet! PLEASE MODIFY OR REMOVE THEM FROM THE GAME!!! sorry for the tone. they are infuriating. they do more damage then my capital ships. hilarious! Furthermore. Diplomacy is broken but you already heard that.
:) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5) Ideas: Build your own "Hero capital ship" Using Pre game selection under a Capped point distribution: the player would be entitled to: Stat Point distribution: Hull points, Anitmatter, Shield points etc. Ability Distribution: your favorite abilities here.... Leveling could unlock the preselected abilities and more stat point distribution. 6) Pre game selection under a point distribution ca
Hi there! Awesome game. A couple of things 1) Large maps and mega wars make cap/scaling off balance: a) The role of capital ships gets dwarfed in a massive battle. b) Planetary defense becomes next to worthless when you have 100+ships attacking. - this makes defensive players sitting ducks. - There is no home team advantage making the game offensively bent. c) Capital Centers influence is not effective enough.<br/
NO your not special. This is a real problem. Increase the cap or make planetary defense viable.
I love this game but some serious cap problems are starting to crop up. I know that this Issue is being covered in Multiple threads and would like to see some suggestions here. An official Cap balance needs to be released. 1) Capital ships lose their value when 16 ships gets overshadowed by 2000+ other ships. Whats the point. Try it. you'll laugh at the capital ships. 2) Fighting multiple AI on large scale maps. Even 4000k ships is laughable. Who can even
[B] Any one who says that defense systems are worth anything hasn't played against multiple CPU's on Normal on a larger map. [/B] Try that and come back. There is not home team advantage!!!!!!!! [B] This game is a total offense zerg fest on larger maps.[/B] With multiple AI. forget building defenses.
A very bad and strange OVERSIGHT. Unrivaled Scale.?????????????? Hardly. Guess we will have to be patient.
Just wanted to bump this issue. Last night I took 300 zerg ships against 10 capitals + 50 zergs. all one has to do is concentrate fire of all the zergs on the next ship. Capitals died in about 10 seconds each. GUESS WHO ONE>?? The balance just gets so thrown off when the scale is huge. I don't even build capital ships anymore.
A STICKY WOULD BE A VERY GOOD IDEA
YEAH I GOT THE BOX. Looks like Star Dock Dropped the bomb on this one. A Big fat warning would have been nice. SO BE WARNED BOX (1.0) people your game/games ARE finished unless you don't update.
