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[quote who="SoA2Team" reply="7" id="3310618"]Scaling ships smaller does not have to be a negative due to grav well transverse time. You can easily make speeds double, increase mass and speed up time so they may take a few seconds to get to speed but once they do, zoom zoom zoom. I suggested this in SoA, and to have structures meant to help speed in friendly wells so you can build "Speed Path Highways" or something. mephistopheles[/quote] It's not just a m

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="57" id="3310629"]@ Aresiv, Bilun> While i proposed to buff other factions in order to make up for the Maw, it does not mean i am strictly against nerfs and promote just buffing. I know i disagreed with Valkya in regard to his proposals to nerf Vasari earlier this thread, but it was only cause he proposed to nerf basically everything there is, phase missiles, wave cannons, bombers, Vorastra, just everything worthwhile. Well perhaps he gave these thing

Short answer: the AI is kind of dumb. The higher difficulties essentially just get resource cheats- which is why in general AI is at it's strongest early game when the player doesn't have a mature economy yet. In general due to it's poor tactical choices and lack of ability to predict the player or apply effective counterplay once you get into the stage of the game where the major bottleneck is fleet supply rather then resource cost the AI has basicall

honestly a realistic scale would render the game unplayable. Either ships would be essentially microscopic, or gravity wells would be so large it would take utterly unreasonable times to traverse. In the proper scale individual planets would likely be larger then entire 30+ planet solar systems are now. Increasing the size of the planets by a factor of 2-3 won't make it anymore realistics, so why not just accept it as a necessary consequence of good ga

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="51" id="3310323"]@ Aresiv> "Because their powerful toys are more balanced and as such dont stand a change against the Vasari ones" Do you realize how bad that sounds? What exactly makes the TEC/Advent "balanced" and Vasari not? The balance here comes out clearly from their direct comparison, in which case, who decides, which side is the balanced one and which side is not? [/quote] This not necessarily the case.

If they are bomber spamming massing carriers carrying fighters will do(fighters counter bombers) it. Add in some light frigates(light frigates are the best at killing the source of the strikecraft the carriers themselves) to actually hunt the carriers if you're still at a stage of the game where they won't just feed the enemy titan. Once titans roll out if you use light frigates and how you utilize them will depend on the titan(in this case your first priority is a

[quote who="barebalo" reply="22" id="3309987"]Also question wouldn't combining the AoE ability from the Progenitor make Unity Mass technically and AoE[/quote] technically yes, but it's not titan quality AoE. The absolute most important things that makes Titan AoE a gamechanger are that a). it's consistently valuable(decent cooldowns, good areas, no wierd timing/aiming/interrupt conditions that make them unreliable)

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="36" id="3309886"] I just dont think the Maw ability to kill bigger number of units than other Titan AoEs should be nerfed, simply cause it actually requires timing, bit of skill and most importantly lot of luck to get desired effect, its simply more random than things like Dissever or Chastic Burst, which give you results every battle. Those results are indeed not as spectatular as the Maw ones, but there is no risk with them that you basically "miss" a

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="32" id="3309796"] Quoting Seleuceia, reply 25Titans don't break stalemates unless there is huge disparity in titan levels...for example, if one side has lvl 7 VL titan and other side has nothing above lvl 3, then yeah the high level VL titan is probably going to be game-changing... But otherwise, titans are simply "a thing" that most players in the game will eventually get...if everyone has a low level titan or high level titan, they aren't

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="28" id="3309703"]Remove the pirate base from all competitive maps. It doesn't take any skill to throw a titan at the base and level it to 3 or even higher if you take out the turrets. I'd rather all titans start at level 1 in competitive games. As it stands now at-least ONE titan will start at level 3 without even fighting an enemy.[/quote] Also while we're at it I'd love to have a game option wherein there are

[quote quoting="post"] So i have 3 questions: 1. How does the Antimatter related Titan upgrade works? It says it affects ability cooldown, what does that mean? For example, if put some points into it, does that mean that Deploy Phase Stabiliser on level 4 will take less than 600 seconds it is supposed to take to recharge? Or any other titan ability with cooldown... [/quote] Think of it like attack speed for abilities. It doesn't directly reduce

Ok, now I finally have time for an in depth response to the OP. [quote quoting="post"] The purpose of this thread is record all balance issues in one place for easy reference and then to suggest changes. Here I'll list some examples of possible solutions from my own ideas and also ideas that have been floating around on the forums. Ideas that are not my own (which is most of them) are marked with an asterisk. Any input would be greatly appreciated. &nbs

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="28" id="3309001"]Let us analyze the different strategies in Sins... 1) Play TR, LF spam + Marza...hope game ends soon 2) Play AR, LF spam + Prog...rape with Eradica and wail... 3) Play VL, Orky rush + Egg....rape with Titan and Orkies... 4) Play VR, get booted from lobby... Now admittedly I over simplified some things....somewhere in there is a stage where you spam bombers or fighters or corvettes...<br

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="9" id="3309211"] Also, Unity Mass should do chaining damage...[/quote] Thank you Sel- been too long since I've heard you say that [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

The advent loyal tech I'd really like to see drop a tier or 2 is Assimilated populace. As is it's too deep to be worth grabbing in time for the initial wave of colonization. Assim is perfect for early expansion, and if it were T2 or T3 it could actually be grabbed in time. By and large though I like most of your changes- I'll post a more detailed response later.

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="7" id="3309191"] Quoting bilun, reply 5I can't agree with this. Suppression Aura doesn't affect strikecraft, AoE ability damage, or corvettes. Those are the three main sources of late game damage. The Rapture's Vertigo omits the same damage sources. The Advent Loyals are the tankiest faction only against types of damage which are almost entirely absent from the late game. Realistically speaking the defenses you&#

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="3" id="3309139"]Combined with that combat research and capitalships like the Rapture, AL fleets by far have the most tanking power of any faction.[/quote] I can't agree with this. Suppression Aura doesn't affect strikecraft, AoE ability damage, or corvettes. Those are the three main sources of late game damage. The Rapture's Vertigo omits the same damage sources. The Advent Loyals are the tankiest faction only ag

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="57" id="3309078"] Quoting Seleuceia, reply 55One could start with the useless culture techs...global unity at tier 5 (with 2 levels) makes me cringe... It now gives 10 % extra tax/extractors income. That does have a value. [/quote] Not enough to really justify going deep in the harmony tree most games. The advent aren't like the other races- in previous iterations of the

The changes I'd like to see to the Ankylon are the following: Disruption Matrix: Change the Vorastra's level 5 ability 'The Maw' to a channel so disruption matrix can actually interript it [comments: this would give the TEC loyals their much needed countermeasure to The Maw. Despite this being a change to the Vorastra there would be no collateral damage,

[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="72" id="3308821"]I do kinda wish the AM cost for GRG didn't scale up with its level. That +10 per level almost negates the extra shots you could be getting from the bonus antimatter you gain from levels. Keeping it a flat 50 would go a long way towards making it an early game ship. BUT, if the Kol were viable in the early game, it would be an absolute God in the late game using the strategies Icomitatus explained earlier. [/quot

[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="69" id="3308791"]Minor question: When did Group Shield start affecting the Ankylon? I just played a game and it jumped in first, immediately targeting itself and gaining the damage reduction from it....was that a glitch or did I not notice a patch? -Huzzah![/quote] most recent patch. Doesn't matter a whole lot though, as among titans there is no better antimatter-drain-then-gnore candidate then the ankylon- though t

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="49" id="3308777"] Quoting SithLordAJ, reply 47The AL get subjugating assault, which doesn't work well but the rebels got reanimation which, while not game changing, is far more effective. Subjugating Assault is not half bad at higher levels. You even get experience when you capture stuff with it , so it can also be viewed as an chance to instant kill enemy units. Of course in MP it also gives the enemy a chance to get extra XP o

[quote who="SithLordAJ" reply="45" id="3308720"]Kind of a lore point here, so I guess you can ignore it, but how did it end up that the Advent Loyalists who are supposedly corrupted by vengeance or something (at least according to the Rebels) get a defensively built titan and the Rebels who I would expect to be more enlightened (if they're calling the loyalists aggressive or insinuating it) end up with a mostly offensive ship?[/quote] Well to be fair, thematically t

[quote who="Bama498" reply="63" id="3308698"]I have always been a Kol skeptic and almost never build them. However, I have always had a nagging suspicion that there was a really good use for them once you stray outside of the normal MP game parameters (primarily the 1-2 hour time frame in which MP games usually get resolved). So I did some testing... My working hypothesis is that the Kol would be a great ship if it had enough antimatter. So I setup a scenario wher

Goa's pretty much right on every point. Anything will work in single player against AI sure, but against realy players who know what they are doing, massing capitalships, overinvesting in research, or choosing capitalships poorly will make you lose. If you are vastly better then your opponent in micro & scouting you may win, but you are putting yourself at a substantial disadvantage. Overinvesting in static defenses is also a mistake players new to