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[quote who="Jaegerjaques" reply="18" id="3389688"]I'm working on a guide[/quote] Good. Looking forward to it. -- The entire bombers-fighters argument does bring this to mind though: http://youtu.be/EitZRLt2G3w Bomber hordes are sort of a first-order-optimal (FOO) strategy. They provide convenient power and are easy to use while taking more skill to counter (microing of fl

Note that having a starbase with Enduring Devotion will mean that only you can colonize that planet after it's been destroyed by Wail (or if it was made neutral by culture and then the culture was pushed back). Any other faction that tries to colonize it will have to go through the starbase first.

[quote who="lolpurplecow" reply="12" id="3389457"] why are the kol and radiance unusable?[/quote] They're not "unusable", they're just disappointing. They both have one useful ability (Flak Burst on the Kol, Detonate Antimatter on the Radiance) as opposed to other caps that are useful in more ways. They're also not "battleships" that do extremely well at single combat and tanking - the Kol's direct combat abilities take up too much antimatter for i

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="14" id="3388966"] Progenitor: Worst colony ship, no firepower, no durability and weak colony bonuses. Shield Regeneration is very helpful against TEC but worthless against Vasari. Malice has a targert cap of 24.... minor annoyance. [/quote] Da fuq. Your arguments seem to be very late-game centric and fight-the-Vasari centric, and as you can see are sort of a devil's advocate PoV. Holistically the Progen is a brilliant ship IMO

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="8" id="3388631"] You should try to escort the Coronata with a fleet of illuminators. The Advent Loyalist have some rather hefty damage increase researches..... and so those illuminators dish out damage worthy of a heavy cruiser. Death in all directions! Combined with Unity Mass nothing can stand before you. Starbases and Titans alike melt like butter. [/quote] Hmm well an A

[quote who="Turchany" reply="7" id="3388883"] Quoting sareth01, reply 5Allowing the discord's aoe ability to hurt fighters and bombers would do a lot to improving it's usefulness. true, but many players would cry OP instantly.. Anyway, are developers aware of the Discord's current state as a useless warship?[/quote] It wouldn't be OP. Psionic Scream is a frontal blast. Only carelessly attacking the Discord from th

I use some customized hotkeys fairly often - the q,w,e,r,t set for manual casting of abilities 0-4, the a,s,d,f,g set for toggling autocast on abilities 0-4, k & l for dock/launch strikecraft. And band-boxing + tabbing is useful for catching moving units... I can never catch them by trying to click on them, esp. strikecraft and vettes. As for planet/econ control, that's basically entirely clicking for me, since the planet control card is good enough. What would

Regarding LRFs being useless, Why single them out? Sins is a complicated game of options with a (slowly) evolving metagame. Naturally the players will reach an equilibrium after every system alteration. There was a time when the equilibrium was shifted so far in LRFs' favor that LFs were pretty useless. Now the equilibrium has shifted elsewhere. The way I see it, there's a lot of stuff that's really great because of how things just happened to turn out. TEC/Advent

Play Advent Loyalists. Research Mine Control. Let your Aeria Drone Hosts fly through the mine fields. They are now yours. Otherwise, set a scout to local area targeting, have some flak set to follow it, and set them on to the minefield that needs clearing. If you can afford to do so, fly an effing Titan through the minefield and then use shield-recharging and/or hull-repairing abilities on it.

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="52" id="3386556"]Generally, if the game was less bomber spam focused.... overall balancing would be improved. [/quote] This is hard. The game's design is inherently hard to balance. There are a lot of powerful AoEs out there, especially in Rebellion, that make ANY sort of fleet made of actual ships suffer immense damage and/or get heavily impaired. Strikecraft allow for a way to maintain a fleet that can have its valuable components stay out of t

There's the main map area where everyone starts (4 factions in 2 pairs with each pair having adjacent homeworlds), off to one side is the pirate base, off to the other side is the wormhole. Beyond the wormhole there is the star, and there are 3 chains each of 3 uncolonizable gravity wells that end in dead asteroids. To find the "remains of ancient starships" you need to colonize the dead asteroids and upgrade the Explore Planet development twice. It will give your faction an artif

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="8" id="3385814"] And btw, repulsion doesn't affect SC so I don't see how that lends to Advent being good at countering bomber spam...maybe you mean something else.... [/quote] That's what I was asking, in reply to this: [quote who="JinglyGoo" reply="5" id="3384759"]I guess this could be true wtih some sick lategame spam with MASS bombers but advent can simply use guardians and the effect is the same.[/quote]

[quote who="Turchany" reply="40" id="3385591"] Not sure if that would change much, you still need many levels on that ability to make a difference, and remember, the ship would be still a glass cannon that cannot survive for long, and weakening 1-2 waves of bombers by some percents, I don't know, still your important objects would die too soon. Or you maybe think it otherwise? I am curious.[/quote] Well we can imagine a fun world where Vertigo and Vengeance worked on st

[quote who="Turchany" reply="38" id="3385486"]Rapture is not affecting this, you hardly ever see one deployed (I have never seen one in battle), as it is a fragile ship that is useless in many cases, and can be sniped easily with bombers, so the buff for Advent bombers will never last for long. I guess same goes for Dunov as you don't want to waste AM draining on carriers that you will never even catch if your opponent has some brain and don't just leave carriers alone where they arri

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="36" id="3385377"] Define real game conditions?[/quote] I'm guessing he would be including anti-strikecraft capital ships (Kols, Halcyons, Kortuls), perhaps other capital ships that affect the strikecraft war (Raptures, Skirantras, Dunovs), and perhaps starbases (which are a big bomber target along with caps) and support cruisers, instead of just groups of light carriers trying to kill each other. I still think Vasar

[quote who="JinglyGoo" reply="5" id="3384759"]I literrally *never* see bombers vs fighters in 5s, vs AI you can make any ship work. As soon as ppl see my fighters they instantly switch, because if they dont they just level my titan for free. I guess this could be true wtih some sick lategame spam with MASS bombers but advent can simply use guardians and the effect is the same.[/quote] Hmm? So you deploy 100% fighter compositions viably? How does this work? Does it scare peo

[quote who="Sinkillr" reply="12" id="3385137"] Based on the amount of terrible ideas and suggesttions you have produced on this forum, the sense of entitlement that you feel for others to help you, and your unwillingnness to learn the basics of sins gameplay, I can only conclude you are a [/quote] I see this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Scrub With the "house rules" in question biased stro

Regarding the Vasari: how do we know which of the OP effects are intentional design and which ones are bugs? I would guess that Maw, Phasic Trap and Disruptor Nanites are all bugged; I know that Maw chain-gobbling is unintended and it's supposed to have a target cap. But I don't know why they would design Vasari basic static defenses to be so pointlessly powerful by intention. OP bombers and UP Skirmishers are probably by design though; they've had their stats the sam

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="18" id="3383707"] Yes, the domination of bombers is a general problem that does nullify several parts of the counter system. Heavy cruisers? Inferior in all important ways Build a starbase? Dont bother, it will die to bomber spam Build Torpedo Cruisers? Dont bother, bombers are better and are usefull against more things than just structures. Personally I think that fighers should ST

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In regards to the Phase Missiles, I would agree with the idea that Phase Missiles are the problem at all, just that the bombers that presently deploy them are. There are no problems with the Phase Missiles on capital ships, starbases, turrets and Assailants. Just those on bombers. While all bombers are capable of alpha-striking capital ships, Vasari need a lot less, especially against Advent ships, and tend to obliterate them while their shields are still very high. If