I'm not entirely sure how to respond, it seemed like a good post at the start but ended in horribly insulting towards the games designers.

I'll break it down point by point for you so you might be able to understand.

I will start by saying this, this game is designed in a way in which you have to do multiple things to win and not just play how you want to play. This doesn't make it unique in any sense. In every game, rts or otherwise you have to follow particular meta strategies or weapon load outs to be effective in combat. Effective in winning or achieving a goal.

Even in sim city you have to follow certain rules or guidelines to expand and become a +$ city. 

In sins you have to scout, tech in the right path and counter units just like every other rts.

1. Bind your engineers and remember where they are. Don't expect game interfaces to do all the hard work for you.

2. Bombers were at one point definitely over powere. But by no means are they now. If you are in a situation where you are losing to air it is because you are not scouting and countering. Or creating a defence strong enough to deal with them. The tier 2 aa turrets are outstandingly effective and you only need a few with the right regeneration to kill grouped bombers due to their splash damage and cost to cost they are much cheaper. 

Further more if you do spend the resources on aa/fighters then you are countering them directly and they are now at a loss on how to hit you. You can't tell me you are overwhelmed with ground forces too when bombers cost ridiculous amounts of resources.

If air was any weaker we'd have problems. 

Like anything if you let it get too big it'll kill you. I don't think there is anything to stop 100 bombers from killing your nexus. But it's your own dam fault for letting someone get 100 bombers. In a game they'd be holding them back for an assault so what have you been doing with the last 15minutes. (hint, nothing.)

3. Counter strats exist and it isn't difficult to stop someone dropping orbitals. I recently had a game where I denied orbitals with nullifiers, they are cheap and so dam good early game, especially against someone who's invested lost of resources into early quanta generation and orbital buildings. By that assumption you will have more expansion, ground or air compared to his useless abilities.

4. I'm not sure how you can struggle, well actually I do in a way. When I want to select just air it's sometimes a pain but that's about it. Breaking and remaking armies is easily, not just a little easy but overly easy. 

Though I agree there should be certain hot key combinations that allow mass select of certain units or all units of that type on the map. It's a small gripe and one that I can live without.

5. I've never played to a point where armies are maxed out, I see where all your problems are coming from. Although this game is a "tech demo" on mass units. No game should really get to that point. Unless you really are trying to play sim city with a friend and wait until you have 10000 units each. That's really not how the game has been designed to be played.

6. It is exactly for the reason you have suggested. It's not to keep the unit count down because that's what they want. But because it forces players to spend tactically and play with more than just a standard 6 factory start and spam units. The choices we make when playing matter and this is exactly what scarce resources force. 

I rather like that, it sorts the bad from good so to speak.

And really this isn't mean't to be a gitgud post but when you start complaining about design problems or about the game but have no skill in playing or attempting to play it the way it was designed over complaining it isn't just a cc or forge alliance.. which although is a good game is also incredibly boring to watch and play compared to games like star craft.





- My own thoughts on the recent expansion.


Thoroughly enjoying the new pace of the game. The new units should've been there from the start, it now adds much more depth to the game. 

 

F1 - select idle engineer

F2 - select idle factory

F3 - select all air units on screen (unless they are already bound to a meta unit/army)

I'm not really sure why I should care what someone who has so little respect for other people thinks.  I stopped reading as soon as it got insulting.

Although I'm not this games designer I believe the feed back I gave was pretty adequate. 

This isn't the first game where people have whined over design choices or because they can't play the game how they want to play it and receive the same results as someone who is using everything as intended. 

Do i have to laugh? LOL! So much Hate for gods sake

Mered4 does like the game a lot I see, he just suck at it and gets mad, i guess lol

But I do think hes right about a few things that i will love to see in the game too.

Like: having more than 1 Dreadnought per Meta-Unit and Make a Meta-Unit handle a bigger army

That will be a nice addition to the game.

About the maps not having enough Metal or Radioactive, i do think its a design decision, you can easily change those options when you create a game in MP or Single player, you can get as much metal or radioactive as you want. Or go ahead and make your own maps, they are so easy to make and if not let me know and i will do them for you using your ideas.

But in any means the game is a Tech demo, the game is very well done and I am very happy with it.

At least he said that he appreciate all the hard work and the time Stardock put into making AOTS lol.