Cykur

Hey Annatar, Thanks for taking the time to confirm this! I was trying to think if there was an advantage to this behavior, but I really can't think of it. I discovered it because I would give retreat orders to my capital when it was under fire, and I would discover a chunk of frigates in a different fleet would follow it (usually with very bad results for the frigates that stayed and fought). I can't help but think it is a bug with the "fleet auto join" functionality also addi

Ok...I will try my best to describe this -- maybe someone else has seen it since 1.09 and can also give feed back. I usually hotkey my capital ships so I can find them, and they are usually 1 ship fleets so they don't auto join some other fleet. I have noticed the following new behavior in 1.09 that I don't remember ever seeing before. I make a capital, select it, and hit CTRL 1 to assign it to group 1. I also make it a fleet. Some frigates enter the system, and of course

[quote]Manhunter123-I'm still kind of new... I've beaten one game LOL. I played on easy and I used to think I needed a huge powerful army to defeat them. So I got my 42 Cobalt Light Frigates and my level 3 Kol Battleship or some other capital ship and started attacking EVERY SINGLE PLANET except the pirate base. Most of the enemy ships were either destroyed or fled. So then I got my colony ship and started colonizing a bunch of planets I was doing all the research in the advanced fleet thing so

The Kol doesn't beat a Kortul, in my experience, but it is still really valuable to have in fleet. I also was using its flak ability the other day to save my ass from strikcraft, and it was a lifesaver helping my own strike craft get the upper hand. Kortul's just happen to be good for killing other capital ships. I have never tested a lvl 10 Kol vs Kortul. It could be that at level 10, the Kol's level 6 ability turns the tables.

Ummm....balancing IS about removing and adding power to various units. And I concur with the others, this is a beta -- bugs are to be expected. As to your other comments, I agree, it would be nice to have maps distribute via the game launcher. Choosing positions sounds great! These are wish list items that should be asked for with a constructive voice rather than a flamethrower. I think that the Alloy upgrade will ultimately grow the community by allowing more people

Lock the AI's on their own teams or they will all gang up on you. Those Multistar maps actually start with 2 stars occupied, 3 stars empty....so if you spend all your effort trying to conquer your star, the others are probably going to be owned by someone.

Hooray! I'm online with 1.09. But there is no one here to kill.

[quote]1 lane to volcano with 3 extractors 2 cobalt 3 lrm 3 garda 2 krosov[/quote] At least you were 1 jump from a Volcano....this would be a normal bad start. It would suck, but at least you can send in your cap ship and cobalts to clear it out. Hack was stuck in cul-de-sac. Only one path out, with 2 planets in a row, so he couldn't even easily bounce ships by them.

Actually, what made it the worst I had seen was the jump past the fully stocked desert was a Volcano with I think about 8-10 frigs. His asteroid was 4 jumps away, and to top it off, he was only 4 jumps from an enemy HW on the other side. Talk about being bottled in....

You should do some battleship jousting some time. In all the Kol vs Kortul fights I've had, the Kortul wins. The Kortul also has disruptive strikes, which slowly dissipates the antimatter on whatever it is fighting. This limits the Kol from using its abilities, and the Kortul doesn't have this problem -- it keeps getting its shield regen and damage boost. In my experience, the Radiance and the Kortul can both beat a Kol 1v1.

I feel TEC are pretty balanced and only start to have problems at end game. Every map favors each race a little differently. Some have neutrals, some have time to set up trade, etc. Look at it this way. The long range frigate is a substantial upgrade over the basic frigate, and trade is important to fuel the an economic war machine for larger games. LRM + Trade Lab Requirements. TEC 2 Mil 2 Civ = 4 Labs Vasari 1 Mil 4 Civ = 5 Labs Advent 3 Mil 3 Civ = 6

Amish did it to me!!! It was supposed to have been fixed. I've known about it forever, but I don't do it to people. But next time Amish, next time!

I look to see what ships make up the enemies fleet and adjust accordingly. That is the whole point of strikecraft, you can adjust to fight different fleet compositions.

Hey Drexion! Yeah, what Hack is saying is pretty much the case. There are lots of brand new players. There are also a lot of foreign players getting the game now. I think many of the experienced players are waiting for the 1.1 patch as well. There are still a lot of good players lurking about, but you have to find em.

Ahhh...interesting, I didn't realize armor mitigated a percentage, I thought it was flat. In that case, it doesn't matter how many beams you use. Damn those Illuminators!!! Thanks Lennier

LRM's and Assailants sometimes get a missile or two off while chasing, but they are not continuously firing. Sometimes you are just seeing missile trails from something already fired, or a random shot when a ship paused. Do a test sometime, take 20 Assailants or LRM's, and have them try and chase a capital across a gravwell. You will notice at some point they stop shooting, or only get a shot off rarely. Give them a move order so they are staying in weapons range. Now, if you micro

[quote]In my SP games version 1.05 as a Vasari I had big problems with Distortion Field: 1) My subverters NEVER autocasted it. 2) When I manually used it, I stunned only 1 (ONE) ship. I'm not mistaken, because I had 2 subverters trying to stop 4 bombers bombing my planet. Whatever I did, two of them were bombing. Can someone explaing what am I doing wrong? BR, Iztok[/quote] Subverters do use autocast with Distortion Field. It is better to micro it, but they will use it

[quote]DPS: 33 dps vs. 33 Victor: Tie (The coming patch is nerfing Illums only slightly. I've done the math. They'll be on par with the Illum) *Note: 1.05 has Illums at 36.6 dps however.[/quote] Remember, an Illums damage is split 3 ways, so that is 3 opportunities for armor to reduce damage. In the comparison above, that translates to 6 armor reductions for Illums vs 3 for LRMs, which would actually favor LRM's a bit. Assailant damage, while having a low base, actually scales

[quote]Also... armor can only ever reduce damage by a maxium of 50% if you end up with 63% shield mitigation as you normaly do on a LRM thats only 47% damage so 10 damage is reduced down to 5. 3 armor is the max armor required to reduce that down to 2.5 because of this Health is far better then armor upgrades except for fighters/bombers who have mutiple units to a squad and damage is spread out from mutiple sources to mutiple members.[/quote] An LRM at

Nice Analysis! I hope you are doing this with a spreadsheet and not killing yourself. Once you get your methodology down, you should be able to just plug in the numbers for any planet type. Tragically, many people will look at this and say, "Great, when should I upgrade my planets, or are trade ports better???"

Nice number crunching for the masses. I would highly recommend you upgrade armor first. It helps a lot against Illuminators whose damage comes at you from 3 beam mounts, so three opportunities to lower damage (also helps against those people who insist on countering you with Flak). You also have to take into account Logistics research. Sometimes keeping your fleet cap size a bit lower pays for those tech upgrades.

[quote]i think the coming changes to RA wil have a positive effect, right now it is possible 2 tech to RA and win the game, with the changes to RA it is only considerd a strong research, just like the TEC pirate raids wich u wont research after your empire = big enough and so does it has to work for RA, dont tech RA until your empire is big enough to sustain itself, RA = just another way for Vasari to get free ships in LATE GAME, if we are going to nerf it again it wil yet again become

Good job! Next time you are using a hit and run strategy, have a Marza in your fleet and get Raze Planet up to level 3 asap. Immediately put the Marza on the asteroid or un-upgraded planet while your fleet is clearing out the infrastructure. You will find the Marza has probably killed the asteroid about the time your fleet is mopping up.

In addition to the Novalith, Advent can use their supercanon to drop a world with low allegiance to 0, effectively killing it. It has been months since I experimented with it, but I played a game a long time ago where I used multiple cannon blasts on higher allegiance worlds, and got them to hit 0. I haven't experimented with this in ages, so I don't really have any useful advice as far as how much allegiance one canon blast can shift, but I know it is possible. As far as ships

I think it would make sense if they made RA just a single level of research and got rid of the intermediate level 1. The level 1 RA is not going to be worth the summoning price considering you won't get exactly what ships you want. Level 2 RA will be a good value to bulk up and augment your fleet. Considering the new summoning cost, I don't think it is a bad idea to cut down full RA's research requirement. RA has a huge research and infrastructure cost associated with it -- now that the shi