Sins needs its damage system looked at.

from Sins Forums
even though i love this game i cant get over the fact that it takes 3 million ships to kill a light frigate. a single capital ship should ba able to do better against them, shouldnt they. i cant tell you how suprised i was when my advent crusaders were chasing down a single cobalt light frigate and couldnt kill it. the amount of harrasment in the game is also a little retarded.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
what's your suggestion?
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Um, it hardly takes "3 million ships to kill a light frigate". Even 2 light frigates will do the job... and light frigates are toast when faced by bombers or LRMs. That said, this is a much slower paced game than most -- ships do tend to last a while, rather than die when you look at them.

To explain why, let me engage in some (unwarranted but oh so funny) sarcasm. ./gasp, a way to engage in tactics that doesn't require the game to be a clickfest, oh noes!
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
The maps are large with multiple systems and the fact that ships last for a while allows you to get to the battle before it is lost.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
and light frigates are toast when faced by bombers
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No, but that's besides the point. Battles are meant to take more than microsecond, so that you can use tactics and strategy. And I like it a lot.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
I'm glad fights take a while, if they didn't and this was another click intensive RTS it wouldn't be owned by me, and I wouldn't be here.

Also if you are having problems killing something you are using the wrong ships against it. I learned this when I accidentally built a bunch of planet attack ships and sent them out to fight...

That didn't end well at all. :o
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
it just feels unrealistic that this huge capital ship is releasing all its wrath upon a tiny space vessel, and its holding up pretty well.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
yeah, but capital ships are really for surviving big battles, supporting troops, and carrying strike craft, not chasing down faster, lighter ships
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
it just feels unrealistic that this huge capital ship is releasing all its wrath upon a tiny space vessel, and its holding up pretty well.
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Some day, maybe you should try having a cobalt solo a capitol, and take a look. By the time the cobalt dies, the capitol ship might have had its paint scratched. Maybe. Even 2 or 3 cobalts aren't going to so much as penetrate its shields before dying, except maybe at level one for a "weaker" capitol ship.

If it really bothers you, think about Stargate: SG1 where a smaller vessel would routinely engage larger vessels by dodging its opponents fire, while all its own would tend to hit. (Think that one episode, where they blew up a star using a stargate...)
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
And you think that's bad, just wait until you take a couple of X-Wings vs the Death Star. ;)

Bh