RickSmith

The reason so many large ships in sci fi have AA guns is because our current real life ships have AA guns, and that is because it makes sense to have protection built in to ships from small fighters and bombers. Cap ships should absolutely have AA.

My $.02... almost, if not all, large ships in the navy have some kind of AA capability, so capital ships in this game definitely should. Maybe not proper flak guns, but some kind of AA gun that targets fighters and bombers.

Really in this kind of game a story doesn't matter at all. It's like a PC board game...it's all about the sandbox games. :)

when does this "Entrapment' expansion come out? :)

It seems like this issue breaks down very simply: It's very easy to spam carriers. It's very hard to counter spammed carriers. This is the essence of a balance issue.

[quote who="Othersides" reply="1" id="2066348"]sounds good alot of effort went into your post. my only problem is it seems to require also going carriers to counter, i wouldnt mind seeing a buff to things like flak to counter SC. good idea tho.[/quote] I agree, and fighters already fill this role. To destroy strike craft and bombers...

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="25" id="2064547"] Crikey...how hard have you actually searched to do this? The other possibility is that he's playing 1.0, before that Options button and the pirate toggle was added. [/quote] I think that's what's going on here, because I don't see any of the buttons he's talking about. Time to update I guess.

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="20" id="2064320"]Game options on the map and race selection screens. [/quote] Does this have to be done in the map designer? not just the options section?

[quote who="Haree78" reply="18" id="2063376"] Quoting RickSmith, reply 16Is there an in game setting for turning off pirates? Thanks. When you are setting up the game choose Game Options and you can switch Pirates on or off from there.[/quote] maybe I'm crazy, but I don't see any option at all for turning off Pirates in the 'options' menu...

[quote quoting="post"]i like the idea of pirates but would like to be able to use them with more options instead of just on or off. [/quote] Is there an in game setting for turning off pirates? Thanks. :)