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[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="43" id="3308234"] Quoting bilun, reply 42And honestly I don't think a synergy potent enough to elevate suppression aura to "strongest titan defensive ability" is present in either of the guardian's abilities. If you coupled Suppression with Inspire and Impair then....oh wait...[/quote] Don't even get me started on I&I- the titan level 6 ability(read: ability that doesn't occur until very late game) that d

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="41" id="3308081"]In general, bilun, I do agree with most nearly everything you said...there is one thing though that I disagree with... Quoting bilun, reply 39So? this is a discussion about how suppression aura doesn't bring much to the table in terms of fleet survivability- and a bility that is not even faction-specific isn't really part of this argument. When discussing the power of titans (and capital ships or SBs, for that

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="38" id="3307864"]I play vasari loyalits and i can asure you that suppression does hinder the vl titan. [/quote] It does not affect desperation. So whoop-dee-do suppression aura removes something like 20-30 DPS to 2-3 targets from the enemy fleet at max rank. By contrast STrength of the Fallen can make more then twice that modification(only in the positive direction) on the second-highest weapon dps titan in the game(t

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="36" id="3307795"] Quoting bilun, reply 35A fleet wide defense which barely actually has an impact on late game damage. it doesn't affect strikecraft, it doesn't affect corvettes, it doesn't affect starbases, and most importantly it doesn't affect ability damage(which is to say AoE damage). The only late game damage source it affects is titan weapon damage. it affecting capitalships is minor at best, and mid-late game combat frigates don't ge

[quote who="myfist0" reply="49" id="3307595"] Quoting SergeantJezza, reply 48Why not? I quite happily play all my games on Steam. It's just so awesome! I have not heard the same thing over and over since I played a badly scratched album on a turntable. Must be a Steam employee or own Steam stock. [/quote] Valve never went public- there are no shareholders they have to please. It's one reason they are a bit

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="34" id="3307627"] Quoting Seleuceia, reply 33This is false....micro phase jump is far better as a defensive ability, mainly because it allows you to get out of a gravity well ASAP...suppression ain't going to do you any good when you have mass bombers or corvettes swarming you...microphase jump also allows you to avoid things that might deplete your antimatter...that it also is a great offensive ability is a huge plus... Thi

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="21" id="3306175"] Quoting DirtySanchezz, reply 17Moving to Steam was one of the best things that ever happened for this game. Did I mention that online player counts peaked over 1000 at a single point in time after the recent $14 Steam sale? Nobody has anything against them offering it on Steam. What rightfully pisses people is that you are forced to use Steam. At which

I was kind of thinking recently: what if Group area shield were more eefetice on frigates then other ship types? At present it's plenty sufficient for making your capitalships tougher, but still utterly insufficient to keep your frigates alive through enemy titan AoE- something that it needs to do as a support titan who's main DPS comes from it's supporting fleet. Perhaps add some secondary effect, perhaps using the same mechanics guardians use:

[quote who="Skasi" reply="9" id="3306114"]It gives research_level * 8.3% credits and resources. I suppose you gotta destroy 20 or so structures (depending on what you hit) before it pays back, unless you kill a capital ship which is probably very hard to plan. I read in an old thread it would only pay back in games you would be winning anyway[/quote] Average research cost per rank: 900 credits or so. Salvage % per rank: 5%. </p

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="18" id="3306052"]I'd like to bring something to light that i think people completely ignore: People always say unity mass needs a fleet to do any damage and bring up the whole issue where the fleet is completely wiped out by another titan.. except that the fleet is under the defense of suppression aura and the coronata continues to mind control other enemy ships at no anti-matter cost. Sometimes i feel this race gets bitch slapped for no reason.--it deserves

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="7" id="3305843"]What exactly do you get out of that research? I've never used it. As far as I know you only get resources from when enemy capital ships (and now titans?) are killed. How many of those do you take down in a game? How often would you need to know one down to make it worthwhile? Maybe it would make sense in games against AI where you're going to end up killing many AI capital ships, but in real games it's

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="35" id="3305717"]I wouldn't underestimate repossession either...there are occasions where 2 fleets sit at the same world but don't actually engage each other for long periods of time...in this situations (and others) bombing out the planet would be highly desirable but also extremely costly or outright impossible (due to enemy fleet and/or SB with government)... Note that if you take the planet, the enemy is denied the ability to build new stru

[quote who="Valkya" reply="32" id="3305553"]I think repossession is being underestimated. It's an instantaneous planet steal regardless of defenses. [/quote] The problem is that it's not allowed to target capitals, which is the only terran world many enemy players have. There is simply a shortage of high-value worlds it can actually target. Not to mention border worlds can be take the old-fashioned way. it was actually pretty good w

[quote who="Gneckes" reply="14" id="3305282"] Quoting Seleuceia, reply 13.even mid and late game, it's not like VL just hit the "I win" button and it's game over....but if you face even a mid-level VL titan with overseers and kortuls, there is just nothing you can do to stop it... That seems somewhat contradictory to me. On the one hand you say Vasari don't necessarily win just by making it into lategame. I'd tend to agree, else noone would be playing anything

[quote who="jsolo15" reply="21" id="3305159"]Hey all ... Does anyone still have a copy of this match. I would love to watch it? I knew a Diehard for SFC he was with 9th Fleet? Is this the same person? If so, hey bro it XTF Fox... Just a newbie [/quote] it's from an outdated version which the current version won't recognize the replay file of- so even if they do it can't be watched. Which is a pity as it was a good game.

[quote who="Gneckes" reply="8" id="3304892"] Quoting Seleuceia, reply 5 Now Vasari have a lot of neat tricks up their sleeves (they are also the strongest factions by far), but you weren't interested in those... Nothing is set in stone yet. I'm still new to Rebellion, and from the first look&feel, TL, AL and AR seemed most interesting. I guess Vasari are quite nice with their phase missiles and mobility, but when I tried them I never got off

[quote who="JuleTron" reply="6" id="3304871"] Quoting Seleuceia, reply 1AL is considered the weakest faction out of them all (titan is probably the 2nd worst, beating out only the Ankylon)... But, if you are just playing SP well then you can pretty much do whatever you want to do...that being said, the Eradica (AR titan) is one of the better ones (Vasari titans are better) and is pretty much a one man army....get chastic burst on it and rape everything.... I haven&#

In principal? Probably the coronata- It's mechanical design is really cool- now if only it actually worked better... Practically speaking? probably either the Vorastra or Eradica Aesthetically speaking? the Eradica, with honorable mention to the Ragnarov

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="23" id="3304757"] Quoting ARESIV, reply 22I agree about the need for a buff, but I disagree about buffings its damage. Imho the damage is the ice on the cake.... but not the primary function of the ability If the primary function of the ability is going to be ability suppression, then its duration needs to be a lot longer...if the primary function is to be a damage AoE (which most titans have) then it needs more DPS or something to get around the

[quote who="Valkya" reply="17" id="3304611"]This thread seems like splitting hairs to me. The differences between TEC loyalists and rebels seem relatively minor overall. Yes the Ragnarov is better than the Ankylon, however.... TEC feels like the gimp faction in general in this expansion. Both advent and both vasari factions seem like better performers. First let's compare titans. Both advent titans are better than both of the

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="10" id="3304546"] Quoting bilun, reply 9I disagree. Playing defensively doesn't have to entail wasting a ton of money on defensive structures and slowing your expansion. Doing this is foolish on any faction and it's not really reasonable to expect a few factional techs to make such an enormous divergence from the core gameplay viable. Mate... if you intend to play offensivly you have to choose TEC Reb

[quote who="GeneHerr" reply="10" id="3304571"]OK, i think i'll win this one. one thing i notice though when logging out: the graph on "credits gained from planet income" shows all 3 AI's about the same, and all 3 about 30% better than myself. any thoughts?[/quote] Probably means you weren't buying the population planetary improvements for the planets you colonized- or alternatively that the AI are just colonizing more planets. Leaving a planet with abs

I have no idea what you're actually suggesting or addressing.

Also another mistake new players tend to make: Be very careful of wasting too much money of static defenses. Turrets are practically only used to speed expansion(colonize a planet before killing some of the defending militia and build turrets immediately to help kill the defenders faster, then scrap the turrets once they finish their job). Hanger bays are luxury late game defenses for when you have a ton of extra money. In gen

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="3" id="3304454"]Generally speaking you are right. The problem is that the only superiority TEC Loyalists have over TEC Rebels is a somewhat superior defense. On all other fronts TEC Loyalists are equal or even inferior. Early Novaliths are not compensating for that enough as fielding them until late game is usually inadvisable anyway. If you dont intend to dig in... there is no reason to choose TEC Loyalists. Any offensive strategy is fa