Definitely needed, superweapons in this game are a little difficult to counter short of destroying them.

Not what I expected, or wanted. (That said, the Advent SW could use some little love...)



Like the Vasari tech?

Frogboy, let me be the first one to say that we really love what you created and the way u are communicating with us like you were one of us "gamers".
Thats defiantly unique and simply one of the best things about Sins.
So i hope that u dont take any critics too seriously/personal cause most of em complain because they rly like Sins and want it to get even better.
With that said i think there wasnt any reason for you to "justify" the changes although its great that even in this case u are stating exactly how and why those changes will be included.

Btw all those 19 points look to me like very good ideas and something u should defiantly consider to include in the next patches.

Ummmm....a monk-ability for planets to host/repair allied ships???   

j/k

Sounds unbalancing. Can you build more than one in the same gravity well? Does it have a radius like the regular jump inhibiter? Are capital ships immune? If not, will scouts get some researchable immunity so you can recon before you send your fleet into a do-or-die fight?

I like them all and that would be icing on top of the icing on the cake!

9. Not such a good idea IMO. SWs should be insanely high up the research tree and expensive to build, thus making the player trying to make one extremely vulnerable...BUT if he were able to get it, watch out...he's going to smoke you.

19. Let's expand upon this...how about allowing new players the ability to take over an AI player mid-game as well??? (WiC)

1) Re: AI smartly surrenders when it's losing badly (planned for 1.03)

Please make this optional for those of us that like to see it through to the bitter end.

2) AI behaviors:

a) Less likely to run. Especially if fleeing will cost it a planet (AI flees too often and fails to recognize the value of attrition or the detriment of sacrificing planets). Fleeing as it stands is a bit out of control. The AI seems to never stand and fight unless it has a huge upper hand. This is rather low on the fun factor as you have to chase it all over the place just to get a single fight in this military focused 4x game. Currently the only interesting fights are against Pirates or an AI that has fled down to his last planet. The game feels more like a car chase than a epic space battle game at times.

Recognize the value of economic and military tech. The AI barely techs and forgoes building trade port or refineries, yet will dump 10s of thousands into bounties. Most games end with an AI with zero trade income and 0 to 10 tech in each group.

c) More likely to attack with balanced fleets (ie no more 12 siege frigates that jump and run all over the place).

3) Either better descriptions or an easier way to see the direct result of upgrades. For example, my bombers had the same damage at the beginning of the game as the end, yet I have researched damage upgrades several times. What did that tech do?

4) Population dies very very fast yet I have to keep bombing-- why? Some kind of damage ratio that makes more sense (planet health vs population)?

5) Moons instead of planets always having asteroids?

6) Space monsters or other MOO2 like random events?

Go take a Howitzer or even a mortar into a battlefield and see how long you last.

ICO Improvements = yay.

I know there are fixes/work arounds to get people online...but those shouldn't be the first things to do in order to play online. For some of us, that's an easy item - others...not so much.

Yet another reason I love Stardock so much.

And I love Ironclad too. A match made in heaven.

I really want the Advanced Phase Jump Inhibiter. Ideally it could be put on a Cap ship, so it's mobile, but make that ship relatively weak, and maybe unable to jump to a different system because of the inhibitor system interfering with jump drives.

I'd like mobile versions of the super weapons and proposed Counter Super Weapon Techs.

I also want a way of slowing down incoming trafic, or even blocking phase lanes. Have something of this nature very large (in terms of Tac slots) or costly, perhaps with a percentage lost of your resources to keep it working (and it blockng your own ships as well).

Antimatter factories that would build antimatter freighters automatically, and supply your military ships with them automatically, increasing their recharge rate depending on the number of antimatter freighters reaching you, but if they were blown up could cause daamge to all units and structures in the area...(lots for the factory, and some for the freighters) Also could be sold on the Black Market.

I think Cruisers should be built on a more advanced shipyard, and a (again!) mobile light shipyard that could build frigates would be a nifty add.

As far as Capital ships, I think having to research them just as researching Cruisers and most frigates would be cool.

I'd like a larger difference between planetary and interstellar phase jumps. Interstellar jumps wouldn't be available to all ships...

Finally, how about non fighter ships without phase jump drives? They'd be cheaper than normal ships, but unable to leave the planet they're built at. It would allow you to build a strong defensive force in some important areas, but they'd weaken your ability to attack unless you bought speciallized jump ships capable of carrying them to different areas. They'd take a different shipyard from the Frigate yard, have several types, (small medium large basically) but still take away from your ship cap.

Golden! Me too!