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[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="9" id="3231704"]2 months is barely necro.... -Twi[/quote] well seems our views differ- to me if 3 weeks go by without a reply on a discussion thread(I perceive different rules/expectation for example from forums games or threads devoted to the upkeep of a mod), in my nook the thread is dead and buried and any attempt to whip it's rotting innards into a mockery of thread-life is a crime against thread-natur

Where are all these damned necroposters coming from?

AGainst a smart player you're less likely to kill their fleet with said starbase. Experienced players get a bit suspicious when you're being defended by a TEC starbases with minimal weapon & hull upgrades(that has "rigged to blow" written all over it). In this case experienced players will probably just attack the starbases with a small detachment of their fleet(it won't take a very large detachment to kill a starbases without any weapon

Also don't forget that the Akkan's Colonize ability probably has the best early game secondary effect of any of the 3 race's colony capships(since early game players are generally trying to keep resources spent on planetary upgrades to a minimum). This provides a handy early game economic advantage when starting with the Akkan. Also, in addition to the strong economy it's self the TEC also has good tools for uttilizing that strong economy by ofrcin

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="69" id="3230701"] Quoting bilun, reply 68You're quoting me out of context. Chill chill man, I'm discussing Yarlen's quote (it was easier to quote your paraphrase than hunt down that thread).... [/quote] ahh k; misinterpreted that a bit [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="9" id="3230678"] Quoting Seleuceia, reply 8This is about as important as nerfing illuminators against corvettes and flak...WHICH IS PRETTY DAMN IMPORTANT IN MY BOOK.... Oh noes, Seleuceia has started to troll himself. His bad case of West Forum Troll virus must be nearing its terminal stage. [/quote] naw, the terminal stages are when the victim starts trolling devs with great regularity- usually at this stage victims ar

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="66" id="3230654"] Quoting bilun, reply 56just because we don't think your ideas are best for the game and implement them doesn't make us incompetent" or something to that degree; That's entirely reasonable as it's their game. The issue isn't that "so and so's" idea didn't get implemented....the isssue is that nothing really got implemented for some of the most pervasive balance problems...many of the so called "trolls"

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="18" id="3230658"] Quoting bilun, reply 15Well to be fair, if the Akylon is far away from the ships it wants to shield, the current implementation does allow it to shield it's allies from further away(since the shield is applied in a radius around the target)- so for example it can actually shield allies outside the range of the ability by targeting a closer ally that is at the edge of the ability's range. The range of the ability is 4000m.

[quote who="Senza32" reply="16" id="3230625"]I suppose, I just don't think it makes a whole lot of sense . I usually just quickly right click to put it on autocast then turn it off when I'm in a hurry [/quote] Aye, regardless don't take anything I said to heart much- I realized part way through my post I wasn't even sure what I was arguing- I was more just musing on your suggestion and recording my train of thought in post-form....It's been that

[quote who="sareth01" reply="53" id="3230523"]Oh I think Yarlen is clearly stating that Starclad doesn't want anymore honest feedback for whatever reason, that anyone opposing his companies views on their project is a "troll". For some reason it seems that he is starting to get emotional about things, as if everything in every creative endeavor is a success because a "longtime group of industry veterans" designed it. When you get emotionally connected to a design it reall

[quote who="Senza32" reply="14" id="3230531"]I would also like for Group Shield to not be a targeted ability.... this seems totally pointless to me and is very aggravating in the middle of a heated fight, why not just have it affect every ship within the radius?[/quote] Well to be fair, if the Akylon is far away from the ships it wants to shield, the current implementation does allow it to shield it's allies from further away(since the shield is applied in a radius around th

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="93" id="3230371"] Quoting Ekko_Tek, reply 91You guys are funny...when Riddle King and Seleuceia are in agreement, something is wrong. For a Domina to get healing, you need tier 6 military if I remember right. Hoshikos come out at what, tier 3? The only person I've ever seen use Dominas in Rebellion MP was....me - once, and they are lacklustre. Why would I ever get them instead of Guardians who can provide extra shielding and amazing Repulse earlier? It&#

I'd rather have faction diversity then a choice between 2 titans personally.

I still think the key to making this ability higher impact lies in allowing it to proc Assim Populace(which unfortunately according to Yarlen is not a bug) and improving the Advent Loyal techs relevant to "owned" worlds(Coward's Submission, Global unity, & Planet-for-a-planet). That way, stealing control of the planet becomes very significant as the "home turf" bonuses you get for Repossessing the world may actually be a deciding factor in the attack.

The Gauss damage in the infocard includes both the Ragnarov's Frontal and rear Gauss Guns. Frontal Gauss guns are only 45.7 DPS as compared to the railgun's 100. Not to mentions while they have the same DPS, due to longer weapon cooldowns, each barrage of the frontal Gauss guns deals total less then 1/3 the damage of the Railgun firing. Longer weapon cooldowns are also mechanically advantageous as they can allow more damage to be dealt before shield

I'm deep in an obssession with this game. Started playing 2 days ago, managed my first win last night, still have 2 ships I haven't unlocked yet though. But yeah, I've been playing almost non-stop with all my free time. As others have already said, killing the final boss is easy if you kill off most of it's crew in the first stage. Basically I won the first time I played a boardi

[quote who="Yarlen" reply="164" id="3230205"]It's in QA this week, so soonish. [/quote] [e digicons]o_O[/e] Another patch already- color me impressed. Also, as always Yarlen, thanks for keeping us in the loop!

So I just had an interesting thought: While it certainly has useful skills, the Ankylon really lacks any sort of wow-factor gamechanging capabilities. So on to the point: What if disruption Matrix also disabled Strikecraft(both engines & weapons) in addition to it's current effects(perhaps with a slight duration reduction)? This would certainly give the Ankylon a completely unique gamechanging tool(no

Why does Rebellion need to be Defenced? Fences are wonderfully useful structures that keep the trolls at bay.

[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="38" id="3228397"]I wasn't comparing the balance. People were claiming Vasari have always been OP, and I was correcting them. -Twi[/quote] Eh-Vasari have generally been on top ever since the bugfixes dissembled the unstoppable monster that was vanilla Advent.

[quote who="Ryat" reply="5" id="3227705"]Quar can't post on this forum anymore to protect and speak for himself. Nice job picking on someone like that.[/quote] How did that go down again? A few months of other Trolls hogging the spotlight has caused me to completely forget what happened.

[quote who="Senza32" reply="33" id="3227738"]Yeah I know, it even says they are good vs Titans in the unit description... but they're not lol. Unless Corvettes are supposed to destroy Titans by feeding them so much XP that they explode, that is. Should test this [/quote] Well to be fair they can be good against some titans- namely the ones that don't have AoE attacks capable of reducing them to slag quickly and efficiently. For example:</p

[quote who="JuleTron" reply="23" id="3227203"]... Since the devs are unlikely to make Advent ships sturdier, another solution would be a buff the Advent economy. There are several Advent eco techs that are ideal for this kind of buff. Resource Focus should get a massive buff to something like 15%/30%/45% faster resource extraction since it is currently so weak. ... [/quote] If the devs ever wanted to improve the Advent Economy at all, Induced

[quote who="sareth01" reply="18" id="3226968"]well i would like to see the #'s on how much the kanrak dps gets increased by when their pm's get upgraded to max. then we'll start to see the gap.[/quote] Ignoring the value of dealing hull damage rather then shield damage, the value of which is more difficult to quantify: We shall assume all shied mitigation and phase missile bypass techs are researched 30% bypass chance is a 30% to bypass shield mi

[quote who="sareth01" reply="14" id="3226938"]... Kanraks are balanced and completely counterable. Vasari bomber spam on the other hand is quite rediculous. [/quote] I couldn't agree with you more. the phase missile problem is only really a notable problem with bombers. Principally speaking there are 3 differences as I see it: 1). The Kanrak has inferior DPS per supply as compared to t