Unit defense cap?

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Once more, I have a Survey vessel with extreme ratings -
Att: 25 Defense : 95
I suggest that perhaps a rating cap based on level of ship? Otherwise you will get the Übervessel that cannot be killed at all it seems.

/Flemming Madsen
VP Lidium
www.lidiumonline.com
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Actually, it is quite easy to get arround such supervessels. Just conquer the race owning it, or trade a trade good for it.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
LOL well, but since I'm the lucky owner of the vessel, I don't think I'll try that ;)

My point is, that it's perhaps too powerfull?
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
My point is that GC is a game where rules like this are shuned. If you can find a way to build a superstrong vessel, Brad can teach the AI a way around it. With this game you don't want to waste time on strategies that only work some of the time.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Jack,
hmm hadn't thought of that one - good point.

/Flemming
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Sometimes that only thing that has saved my bacon in a game has been the fact that my original survey ship has picked up considerable bonuses.

In the game I played last night the _only_ reason I was able to fight off the horde of battle cruisers launched by the pirates was because of my survey ship.

This was fairly early in the game and the pirates had taken out basically every other ship in the galaxy and all but two starbases.

Another point is that in a longer game ships like Rangers and Overlords are serious threats to even a beefy survey ship.