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[quote who="DarthLeader" reply="19" id="3213627"] Armor vs attack vs shield upgrades: which ones do you prefer? I looks to me like armor is better than attack upgrade (for example +5% attack on certain ships vs +1 armor, which might mean +20% armor, on all ships). I don’t really know how shields place themselves here. Also, I guess that in big battles, only a few ships are getting fired at while all ships are effectively firing, so that would place attack upgrade higher than armor

[quote who="Ibnpatuta" reply="75" id="3213512"]I think that Wail is fine as is, though it could give some kind of warning (I don't really have an idea for that). For Chastic Burst, I would suggest a cap on affected targets.[/quote] I don't really agree here. Seems kind of silly that the only titan AoE with absolutely no secondary effects or utility become the only target-capped AoE. That said I DO thing limiting the scope of the damage is a better

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="19" id="3213503"]I don't knolw if the gentelmen is still around but I saw a pirate siege frigate firing freom both missile points tonight. Very neat actually, they skew an jitter out of the tube and then cross paths and arc in to the target. Just thought he might want to know he was heard.[/quote] [e digicons]:omg:[/e] A necro which actually serves a purpose besides annoyance! What an ag

[quote who="Ryat" reply="3" id="3213398"]Because people can't think outside the box.......[/quote] It's been proven from at least a dozen independent unbiased studies that there is in fact nothing but a barren wasteland outside the box. People need to stop their heinous thoughtcrimes and accept that everything they want or need is inside the box, carefully monitored by our benevolent cephalopod overlords...

So I was looking over the Culture related gameplay constants hoping for some new insight on the fundamental issues with culture and a question occurred to me. First off, the relevant section of the gameplay constants file reads: cultureData minPropagatedCultureRate 0.005 culturePropagationPerc .5 cultureDecayRate -0.4 neutralOrbitBodyCultureRepelRateMultiplier 0.5 enemyOrbitBodyCultureRepelRateMult

[quote who="Yarlen" reply="57" id="3212902"] Quoting bilun, reply 19Also @Yarlen: I have a quick question I've been meaning to ask on the topic of the Advent Loyals: Since implementation The Coronata's Repossession has never applied on-colonization effects, most notably Assimilated Populace, which especially now with assimilated populace being buffed is going to matter. My question is this: Is this a bug as most people assume or was it a concious decision on the part

I'd just like to see Deliverance engine disable culture buildings at the targeted gravity well and have a 50-100% faster projectile speed(it can sometimes be rather hard to time considering one of it's main effects is a fleetwide damage buff which needs to arrive at a battle near the start of the confrontation to really be useful). Heck even a 100% penalty to enemy culture production in the targeted well may do the job(rather then a full disable). But the fundamental i

[quote who="Pat_22_" reply="35" id="3212411"] Quoting bilun, reply 34 Quoting Pat_22_, reply 32 Quoting GoaFan77, reply 12 Quoting Seleuceia, reply 11Eradica was buffed Well that unyielding will change was asked for a while, its just if they didn't reduce the invincibility time once it really dies, it might be a bit extreme. It only costs at minimum 60% more to rebuild once it dies now. Aye I sort of

[quote who="Pat_22_" reply="32" id="3212405"] Quoting GoaFan77, reply 12 Quoting Seleuceia, reply 11Eradica was buffed Well that unyielding will change was asked for a while, its just if they didn't reduce the invincibility time once it really dies, it might be a bit extreme. It only costs at minimum 60% more to rebuild once it dies now.[/quote] Aye I sort of assumed that's why they chose now to rework Unyielding

1.04 changelog has been up for a few hours: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/429746

Honestly even just implementing this idea for even Light frigates alone would make a huge difference IMO. If light frigates had any reasonable amount of survivability late game we'd have a small but fully functional set of Frigate counters in the late game: LF>carriers(fielding bombers)>HC>LF...... and so on perhaps dropping LF damage taken from abilities to 50% or so should make them plenty resilient to AoE In this fashion&

Also little remarked on change: Disruption Matrix hitting titans. Do you guys think the ability disable will work even on titans since Matrix is it's self a titan ability? Would certainly add a bit more wow-factor to the Ankylon.

I like. Also @Yarlen: I have a quick question I've been meaning to ask on the topic of the Advent Loyals: Since implementation The Coronata's Repossession has never applied on-colonization effects, most notably Assimilated Populace, which especially now with assimilated populace being buffed is going to matter. My question is this: Is this a bug as most people assume or was it a concious decision on the part of the development&n

I'm a bit sketical. The time it take allegiance to actually increase is as much of an issue for culture's benefits as the spread time. Not to mention that in the big scheme of things it really doesn't take all that long for culture tos pread through your territory with zero culture upgrade techs. But let's do a cost benefit analysis: With confluence culture spread 60% faster, which means it takes 62.5% as long for culture to reach eac

Personally I'd like to see titan's have their vulnerable infancy period extended as well as the risks of building a titan increased; perhaps something like: -Increase exp needed to reach each level on titans by 50-60% -Increase exp granted for killing enemy titans by 50-60% That way rushing a titan will carry some risk, as the guy who's fleeting up with frigates has a fair chance of killing the titan before it reaches level 2 or 3. &nbs

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="5" id="3211417"]Now you are going to get sued for using the word "Rebellion"...shame shame shame....[/quote] At the risk of getting this thread locked I've got to say I hate copyright law sometimes...

Years from now scholars will refer to the events of the last few months As the 2012 Troll Uprisings...or perhaps The Great Troll Rebellion of 2012(see what I did there?).

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="77" id="3210983"] Quoting bilun, reply 76Honestly though, the real reason the Advent have so much trouble with phase missiles is they lack any widely available hull repair abilities. Low armor & hull contribute too, but the biggest problem is they are mostly stuck with every hull damage they suffer(by contrast other factions getting 30/hull a sec or more outsustains a decent portion of incoming phase missile damage). To be as capable at dealing with pha

[quote who="sareth01" reply="22" id="3205034"]I'd say they need to introduce a new class of ship. It would be part support ship, part combat. Each race would have different variations of them. They would be "Sub Capital Ships" Take a beating like capitals, yet be a lot more spammable and cost around 30 fleet supply per. Each race would have 5+ different types with different fleet capabilities to really mix things up. More varia

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="127" id="3210677"] Quoting bilun, reply 126 Quoting BellGoRiiing, reply 124How do you join this beta? Because on Steam it says its password protected. >.> I'm completely in the dark about this alleged 1.04 beta. I've seen it mentioned on the forums a few times yet there's no announcement post from the devs I can see stickied or on the main site- a bit of google-fu has also produced no results.

[quote who="BellGoRiiing" reply="124" id="3210568"]How do you join this beta? Because on Steam it says its password protected. >.>[/quote] I'm completely in the dark about this alleged 1.04 beta. I've seen it mentioned on the forums a few times yet there's no announcement post from the devs I can see stickied or on the main site- a bit of google-fu has also produced no results. When exactly was this 1.04 beta announced? And

[quote who="KSSSWM" reply="6" id="3210392"]I completely understand what you're saying, but if any faction is in the eco spot, there is a high chance for a win by that team. For example, if each one of these teams were in the eco spot, this is most likely what they would do: TEC R: Novalith and Titan TEC L: Novalith and Dual SB Advent L: Titan Advent R: Titan and Wail Vasari L: Titan and Strip Vasari R: Mobile SB

People played with VR for awhile- the result was pretty much always the same: If the VR is in the eco slot, the other team loses, as with little pressure the VR can starting pumping out a fleet of starbases without ever having to increase upkeep. If the VR is anywhere else they still have a massive advantage on everyone else. VR are banned for a reason- hopefully the enxt patch will make them reasonable enough to unban.

[quote who="NewHorizons" reply="1" id="3209099"] Subjugating Assault: Additionally each time an enemy ship is stolen the Coronata gains 30/45/60/75 experience. Not so sure I like that as it could skew your targeting priorities :- You could spam exp by capturing low value targets (scouts/colony/light frigates & corvettes :- worth less or same) & destroying high value ones (heavy/carrier cruisers which are worth more). [/quote] I originally worried about

Some good ideas in here. Another thing I'd like to see is for the TEC loyals to be given *Some* offensive capability- they are the premier defensive faction, but let's face it: you need to attack to win. To keep in flavor I think any such buffs should focus on boosting Border conflicts or mounting counteroffensives on enemies that attack you first. Perhaps something like: Counter Deployment: In addition to current effects, when the last ene