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say it sunny!! lol agent your are full of s*** lol what a lame excuse

not just an influx of new players but old players aswell:D

agent thinks he is some 'great player' lol and if u dont think that 75 bomber squads will effect a battle then u must be on crack

lol if you dont like the game dont play it. diplomacy is far better for multiplayer it adds so much to the game. not to mentioned the faster speeds

lol double post. i managed to mow my yard to :) just trying to get the word out that the communty is no longer shrinking and is in fact growing (hopefully at an exponentail rate ;))

6 lvl6 skirantras = 75+ bombers 6 lvl6 sovas AND 6 lvl6 halycons wont match that lol

ive witnessed a steady INCREASE in the number of players online at certian times rather than a decrease since the last patch. yesterday (sunday April, 5) i played nearly a dozen games 3v3 or larger including 2 4v4 and 4 5v5. YES FOUR 5v5 games 3 of them were played back to back to back. most were skilled and 2 games even involved booting :D The ICO community is seeming to be making a comeback. I personaly attribute the growing number of ppl online to the dissapear

fighters killing bombers is completely irrelevent when dealing with a high level skirantra currently it relaucnhes 3 squads at 100% without much time inbetween. 6 skirantras will eventualy equal 75+ bombers (ive done it/ seen it lots of times). to counter that you would need roughly 30 carrier cruisers lol. and dont forget fighters have about the shortest survival rate of any combat ship due to how fast flak kills them

nerfing can and does indirectly buff other ships/ablilites so nerfing is on topic

ta kingdoms was a huge flop lol

lol ithas u dont even know what you are talking about :P

nothing wrong with being new...but if you think your good when your not...thats when your will see little/to no improvement. if you read my entire post you would know that i am trying to help too many people complain and whine and complain about rushing and spamming and well just about everything if they do not win...boo-hoo go play something else. some more advice for newbie whod like to improve and hold their own against skilled...always go a military start and

never seen u online...but if id join ur game and saw it was on normal speeds i would not play lol (not unlike many others)...cause like i said games take long enough already no reason to make them take longer... some advice...go to single player against easy ais in a large random map (faster speeds, quick start) and just practice your start (colonize fast and build LOTS of ships) untill u get fast at colonizing and making large fleet. then mp will go much better ;)

i think i was in both games...lol obviously i was the one rushing first things first...you or your friend...ur not very good (the minute u can acknowledge this fact the better u will get) second and most important thing for any and all rts...SCOUT...SCOUT..SCOUT...cant stress this enough third...u cannot feed early in diplomacy because u must research 2 techs after building 3 civic labs to do so... fourth...its not hard to have 30 ships and 2 caps withi

make ur speeds faster and more will join...games take long enough as it is and normal speeds take even longer. longer game = less ppl willing to play...

lol you made another one...

well skirantra def needs nerf...it is as OP as ilums used to be lol

we seem to agree on the fact that caps need buffed. just disagree on which ;) Skirantra--NERF sova, marza, akkan, haly, egg, mauradar--FINE (never mentioned akkan but ion bolt is great as is its lvl 6 ability and its colonize is arguably the best) all other caps--BUFF

thank you dessconner you said it better than i could volt u claim to know so much but i garentee you be gettn wooped online lol use maruader to A: kill enemy caps as they try to jump out when they get damaged (ie interupt their phase jump charge up) and B: allow urself to jump into to a fight u cannot win to kill something important (ie a damaged lvl6 cap) and jump out without worries of getting trapped due to pji and B: give ur damaged cap a few seconds longer whilest ur skir

volt...you just lost all credibility in my eyes. lol...no wonder you are so far out in left field...you do not play online "forgiver him father, for he does not know what he is missing" "I am not a crook."..erm..jerk... if you played online you would notice that...no skilled player ever builds a kortul (unless for kicks) skilled players use the antorak. and there are reasons...reasons that you would notice if you played online Agent of Karma....sor

hmmm...play online against a skilled vasari and see him use a maurader against you...you will say it is OP after 2-3 games. and noone uses the kortul (NOONE) an egg can colonize 6 times faster than an colony frig lol. still see alot of eggs in MP, but rarely see any progs or akkans EDIT: and the marauder can save your caps if you are in a gravwell with a phase jump inhibiter....

and on POH...cooldown is so short u can use this ability almost constantly...this also leads to running out a AM quickly but take it off auto cast lol. this is best used to save one of your caps or even better stop a running caps phase jump...it has to recharge up to jump...then u use again and agin..untill its dead. works like a charm :)

i think u guys are off base flak are FINE do not buff them lol (flak kills lrf i use them all the time) yeah my bad i meant the marauder the egg is fine (skilled players still use it well trust me) what ur saying is u want to go back in time where all anyone built was colony caps and bfor scouts were buffed if u were losing mid-late game against som1 who was not teching military at all and you were then, USUCK period. end of story lol the egg is

i agree the egg's colonize doesnt match the other races colonizer caps. but it is by far the most powerfull colonizer cap and probably ranks somwhere 3-5 overall. nano still great ability and better than nano is its gravity waepon thing. and it has one of the better lvl6 abilities. suck planet gives u resources and kills planets fast as crap... most of my point was that the egg, desolator, halycon, sova and marza are perfect. the skirantra needs slight nerf (mainly scramble bombe

lol do you even know what a railgun is? it definitly is not going to 'pass through' anything. however it definitly should get some sort or buff it is too weak currently... caps are more powerfull now than they have ever been in this game. the most powerfull are the carriers, as they should be, however some of the caps u will never see a skilled player build because the pros do not outway the cons. i still love the egg to death and as vasari i make an egg 2-3 skirantras a