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@Volt I inflated the numbers to make my idea sound more impressive. @ Seleucia Why not? AL focus on influence (i.e Acclimatization and Confluence) and influence is a big way to gain money. Instead of thinking of it like tithing, think of it like the Huns or Mongols being paid off.

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="15" id="3197558"]You do realize that an Level 6 VL Titan basically removes frigates from the game? You have to retreat them the moment he is phase jumping to your position, otherwise they are going to be history. You should know that frigates are more important than capital ships in a game against a human opponent. Sure, build captital ships when the hostile titan is approaching level 6. And then? Are you believing that your new capital ships are a good counter to a

[quote who="stein220" reply="8" id="3197137"]I think Confluence, Acclimitzation, and Global Unity are supposed to be their good macro techs to set them apart from the Advent Rebels in particular. Are these lacking and if so, how?[/quote] These techs are lacking because their in-game effects are too small. Only the devs know exactly how culture works so I can't be more specific.</

Australia. There is no indication as far as I was aware that Sins Rebellion was actually available retail anywhere.

According to this website's store page, Rebellion is digital download only and the collectors edition isn't even out yet. So how is this possible? link: Found in the local bargain bin.

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="26" id="3194504"]Vertigo will always affect fighters and i believe bombers will always be a threat to every race. The loyalist play fine and their weapon techs are arguably just ad-dons. [/quote] The other factions get much more than just add-ons. EDIT: Other factions get changes that are more far-reaching.

The issue isn't the underpoweredness of the AL fleet (AL fleet is fine) but the blandness and weakness (for their tier) of so many of their techs. The 5% damage buff of Fury of the Unity would be fine if it were a military tech in an appropriate tier. Winning as a particular race says nothing about their balance.

Ah, OK right. I know nothing about modding, forgive me. [quote who="bilun" reply="14" id="3194351"]Considering the vasari have a non-faction specific tech 2 tiers lower then assimilated populace which passively increases population generation rate by 40%, it should be perfectly fine for assimilated populace to give a 10 minute 50% population gain rate buff to newly colonized planets. This would essentially result in an extra 37.5 population generated over the first 10 minutes after co

Capital ship income for VL is not an ability, not sure if its taxed though. Mass Communion income could be implemented like that, or alternatively it could just increase the amount of taxed income within said gravity well.

Wow Assimilated Populace is even worse than I imagined. The whole point of Repossession is that in captures a world without bombing, so this ability should capture planets with all health, population and planetary upgrades intact. The simplest way to make Advent more competitive with the other factions would be to strengthen their economy. If AL got eco bonuses instead of useless damage ones, they would be in far better shape. Confluence should give a +10% tax i

Interesting approach but somewhat complex to balance especially if it gives a different buff to different abilities. Using Guidance on itself could give Reverie a small AoE and/or allow targeted ships to receive more damage before causing the ability to wear off.

Percheron is a breed of pack horse. Marza is the name of a river in Romania. Akkan sounds like the name of female spirits from Finnish mythology. Hoshiko is a Japanese name that means star child. [quote who="GoaFan77" reply="2" id="3194239"]Actually there was a guy on here who said many of the TEC ships have sound like Russian or other Eastern European languages. [/quote] Ship names like 'TDN Karamazov' (after the Russian book The Brothers Karamazov) etc. make this pre

[quote who="bilun" reply="88" id="3193459"]Guidance: Target single Allied Frigate or Squadron of Strikecraft Deals 80/120/160/200% increase damage, has it's abilities cooldown 100% faster, and gains +4/6/8/10 armor for 30 seconds Cooldown: 35 seconds AM cost: 50/55/60/65 Note: the numbers looks big, but keep in mind this ability would be unable to target capitalships, titans, or starbases. it supercharges one of the little guys, that's all.[/quote]

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="76" id="3191861"]I actually really like the idea of it being on the Matter Processor and frankly, I think STTC gives too few resources, though I am however in favor of removing all credits gained from it. As a result, I believe that pulling it off would be harder, though very powerful if you manage to do so.[/quote] If it were on the Matter Processor, it would be more easily counter-attacked. Giving only crystal and metal seems like a pretty good idea

2 other approaches: Making SttC an ability on the matter processor (as mentioned earlier) Make income gained dependent on the number of planet health upgrades

The old skyboxes and the new ones have the same file names. If you didn't rename them, you probably lost the new skyboxes. A shame that it didn't graphically work.

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="3" id="3189964"]rid of the green one and put a red one back in[/quote] Yes. Definitely this.

Downgrading fleet supply won't work because it would make battles become less decisive.

Sounds good to me. That leaves Unity's Guidance. I guess this would fit best with Ancient Retribution.

Rather than new techs, the second and third ideas could be integrated into existing techs.

[quote who="MayallCommunion" reply="7" id="3183092"]5. Doesn't AL take over the ship after its jumped like there is not way to stop it from jumping. So essentially if the fleet is large enough to be effected by the small 5% you wont actually get the ship because it will die after it jumps? I just don't think its worth it.[/quote] It doesn't say that on the tech description I'm sure. I thought the whole point is that they convert INSTEAD of fleeing. [quote who=

If Vasari cap ships with the patch now only have 1 lab, is it military, civic, half of each or random?

I agree with a lot said here and have been pushing for the same thing. 1. An early game allegiance buff would be nice, although I would also like to see this complimented later on by an in-culture trade income boost, provided by Assimilated Populace for example. 3. Global Unity can be a very strong tech if it is tier 3 but I don't think it will be a problem. 4. and 5. Agreed with Volt. 6. Glad someone else agrees that Fury of the Unity

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="59" id="3182769"] +50% conversion rate and culture spread should be huge... if culture worked well in the first place. [/quote] It isn't a culture spread buff, its culture spread rate buff which is far less impressive. If it were culture spread itself that got a boost, than there wouldn't be a problem in that area. I didn't know that they had a 50% conversion rate buff, that sounds decent. But Fury of the Unity is probably

Great changes, look forward to checking them out. [quote who="bilun" reply="49" id="3182609"]the future of culture and/or any upcoming changes in upcoming patches? It's a core mechanic to the Advent Loyalists which continues to not really be viable despite their enormous bonuses.[/quote] What enormous bonuses? AL bonuses are tiny.