Foraven

Well, i just stumbled on the real cause of fighters uberness : self repair. I watched a bomber squadron duke it out with a neutral flak frigate. The flak did damage the bombers, but it was randomly hitting them. So it never actually killed one, and the bombers were repairing themselves almost as fast as they flak figate was damaging them. So i think the most urgent fix would be to tone down, if not disable self repair on fighters and bombers so flak can actually wear them down with their lowe

What would space battle be like in my opinion? It would be more like riflemen tactic than fast manouvring, kind of like Legend of Galactic Heroes anime. First reason is fuel economy : manouvring a lot mean spending your fuel reserve quickly. Unlike in atmosphere, we can't use air in space to turn or slow down, so every course or speed change require thrust, and you can't store an unlimited amount of it. The second reason is how much acceleration you can get with the engine you have :

[quote who="Shadowhal" reply="16" id="1858139"]Quoting Foraven, reply 15I have a different idea on how to rectify the balance problem with carriers and fighters/bombers. What if strikecrafts had to rearm/repair/refuel after a number of attack runs? The time they would spend returning to carriers and the few seconds there to rearm would be time ships could take to either withdraw or blow up a few enemy ships while the strikecrafts are not fighting. Right now, fighters and bombers keep attackin

What i like about Soase? Well, i like the fleet action, the way colonies are handled, the tech tree... But let's say i would not mind major changes to the AI or how the Pirates works. The AI could use some strategic and tactical intelligence so it choose it's fight more wisely and do try to cripple the economy of the players it can't face head on. The AI should be able to use delaying tacics and baits, and know how to get the most bang for the bucks when raiding. I would not mind if the Pirat

I did not notice any particular problem with fleet, and i'm playing the current beta (1.09). Of course i learned while playing that some ships should not be put in the same fleet, and that who is the leader of that fleet decide how the whole fleet will act. Depending on the engagement range and fleet cohesion setting, the fleet may stay in one clump (with lost of ships idling) or spread itself tin attacking multiple targets (making them easier targets for the enemy)...

Here some ideas : Tactical Hit and run. The AI tries to destroy as much structures or civilian ships while avoiding static defenses or defenders. It should retreat only when it can no longer attack any structure or civilian ship without running into defenses or the defenders are too numerous (like 3 times their number). The AI should not use capitals or expensive support vessels when raiding. All ships used to hit and run should be considered expendabl

Well, i can't say i have played Sins much since i got it, but it does not take me much time to see quite a few weaknesses in the AI. The AI does a few nice moves, like raids, but when it comes to fight fleet against fleet, it sucks. The AI is too prone to retreat and does not make much strategic decisions like baiting us to defend one place while it attack another in force, or sacrifice a few ships while it marshal a larger force to take us down. It also lack tactics in combat like splitting

I have a different idea on how to rectify the balance problem with carriers and fighters/bombers. What if strikecrafts had to rearm/repair/refuel after a number of attack runs? The time they would spend returning to carriers and the few seconds there to rearm would be time ships could take to either withdraw or blow up a few enemy ships while the strikecrafts are not fighting. Right now, fighters and bombers keep attacking until destroyed or they run out of targets, but if they had to go back

Oups, double posting...

Hey, i know the anime, watched the whole thing a while ago. I believe a LOGH would do nicely with the engine of SIN... That could be a nice mod :).

[quote]We could also add, a selcet all ships of the same type, to the fleet AI. That way, you don't have to go to each ship in that fleet, and turn off the same auto cast, for the same type of ship, for the entire fleet. Try holding alt and click a ship.[/quote] But that will select all ships of the same type, regardless of what fleet it belong to, that's the problem.

[quote]scouts dont counter lrms I tried it and got slaughtered my scouts were getting poped.on the otherhand laserfrigates dont seem to do that badly agasint them as long as they dont get critical numbers..problem beig for TEC its 5 pop to counter a 4pop lrmThe real problem is the damage they do to capital ships and the tiny ammount of damage capitalships do to them.Just boost the damage caps do to flak/lrm frigates[/quote] The rock/scisor/paper aspect of the game should be reworked so

I agree with you, the AI need some work. But i noticed the AI tend to focus it's attention on a few targets, sometimes targets it can't finish of due to repair units and support ships. I found out while modding that all combat units are set to "prefer focus fire" that make them focus on a few targets and keep attacking them until they are dead. I did mod that to false and noticed a great improvement (in fact it make it much more dangerous) for the AI, but the AI won't switch targets when it woul

Well, yeah, some way to control the auto-attack function would be nice. For example it's not necessary for the whole fleet to chase one trade ship or scout, a few ships (scouts or lights preferably) are more than enough. The unit/fleet ai should be able to gauge how much firepower is needed to kill a target, or if the current ships has any chance of catching the target before it leave to another gravwell. Of course, when you throw in support ships and special abilities, the decision making can g

Is there a way to create an ability that makes the ship casting it pick a new target according to the parameters set by the ability? It could be useful to automate some ships behavior like making them hunt down all structures in range, pick on certain ships types during fleet engagements or retarget on nearby near dead ships to finish them off...

A good counter should be something cheaper or faster to get up and running. If your counter require more research or investment, it's not a good counter. That remind me an old argument i had on the Homeworld (the first one) forum. Capital ships could be countered with lots of bombers, but you ended up pumping more resources building those fragile, easy to kill fighters than the cost of the ship you wanted gone...

Unit AI. I would give it a 3. They can do quite well on their own, but sometimes i wish they would pick their target more wisely (when auto-attacking). Fleet AI: A 3 again. What i dislike of the fleet AI is that support units, long range units and unarmed ships tend to be too close to the warzone. For example, carriers tend to go in the middle of a firefight, getting in the harms way while they can't fire a shot... I know we can assign them to another fleet but juggli

Not sure if it would work well, but you could send scouts against the LRM (scouts are anti-light armor) along your Light Frigates. Just don't forget to set the scouts to auto attack mode.

Personnaly, i would like a complete revamp of the pirates so they can become something more interesting than a timed annoyance. For example, make them roam the map and attack defenseless trade ships or inferior forces instead of going against fortified planets. Second, make them stockpile wealth (like all good pirates should, this make something to plunder when we take over their base) and have to actually build and maintain their ships as well as care for them like any other player. And last, w