[quote who="lifekatana" reply="344" id="2532107"]Have you finally cited something kharma? Bravo![/quote] Actually, I didn't cite anything. I put forth something as an interesting read, and as I said, I take no position on it one way or the other.
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[quote]Hell, you could hold off late game raids with 3 turrets and a repair bay, no tac upgrade required. That's why people turned them off[/quote] I turn them off because it's stupid to play with an AI in an MP game. I could give a crap how easy or tough they are.
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I find it funny that all I've heard for the past 2 years is how weak and pathetic pirates are. Now that they are apparently buffed, people are screaming about that. Me? I didn't buy the game to fight pirates. When I play an MP game and someone has them turned on, I just leave. Also, when people turn them off (which is what I want), they give stupid justifications for turning them off, such as "well they are just weak and pointless." What? My justifi
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[quote]Seige frigates do not have the same role as bombers so this is an irrelevant comparison.[/quote] It isn't an irrelevant comparison. The siege frigates assault my planet. Ogrovs and Adjudicators assault my structures. So do bombers. Fighters counter all of them. Simple, intuitive, makes sense. No need for me to have to map an arbitrary, complex system of counters in my head, making things complicated just for the sake of making things complica
[quote who="Protoplazm" reply="8" id="2531603"] But then you end up with the Zerg syndrome. Mass, and maul mayhem.[/quote] What? What does reducing tedious bullshit micromanagement have to do with "zerg syndrome?"
Adding the ability to train caps to a higher level is a nerf to Advent, who have "Mass Transductance" ultimate research.
Come on. Anything else to report? The patch has been out long enough to make an evaluation, yes? Does Advent still seem ridiculously OP? Does Vasari still seem UP? What's the mainline strat or spam now... lrm? What are you seeing? What is there to report?
[quote who="Protoplazm" reply="6" id="2531181"] (suggestion #2 isn't bad either)Yeah, I do like the multi-grouping idea, but in the interests of "being careful what you wish for category", if you auto enable fire control and target aquisition across the board then I think good micromanagement skills begin to be less of an advantage because it might "level the playing field" a little too much.[/quote] Screw micromanagement. This is supposed to be a grand strategy game that w
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[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="143" id="2530676"]I must have missed adding it to the changelog then. I do know that we had changed the Enforcer, just can't remember when. I'll have to check the logs when I return to the office.[/quote] Excellent!
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I think the armor type on the ogrov/adjudici is fine. It is intuitive and makes sense. All the things that "assault" either my planet (siege frigs) or structures (ogrovs/adjudici) have the same armor type and are countered by fighters. As a defender, I know what to build for the counter. Just seems to make sense. Fighters are for defense, bombers are never for defense but for offense. It is a "wholistic" and consistent system. It isn't arbitrary. 
[quote who="Protoplazm" reply="3" id="2530619"] This is a fantastic suggestion. I will pay you just for thinking of it. Where do I send the money?[/quote] Just keep the money, and tell the devs you'll use it to buy Diplomacy if the suggestion is ever implemented :-) (suggestion #2 isn't bad either)
If you are just fighting against the AI, simply spam the hell out of illuminators. Also, if you are building a lot of capships, tech both levels of "Mass Transductance" - one of your ultimate military techs.
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[quote]Ogrovs are fine; those things hit viciously hard[/quote] They do hit visciously hard, I never disputed that. What I'm asking is, considering their supply cost, do you find yourself buying them instead of carriers? List every pro and con you can think of, ogrovs vs. carriers. (Range? Carriers have more. Tier level? Carriers are less Tier. Specialization? Carriers attack more targets. Etc.) I was able to come up with one
Okay, I confess. Bottom line is, I never got a hard-on for the idea of Diplomacy. Hey, no biggie, I understand that SP folks like it, and that's fine. You can't please everybody all the time. But is there a way you can get my money anyway? Yes. I figure Diplomacy will be supported (i.e. patched) for the next year or so. I'd simply like a few interface changes. I see those, I'll throw down my change for a copy, and I bet other MP types who have
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[quote]The one thing I've found odd about Orgovs and Adjudicators is that they have the same armour type as bombers, which means both kinds of structure busters are countered by by fighters, making a mockery of the counter system.[/quote] Actually, this seems perfectly fine and normal to me, unless someone can explain why it isn't.
I take no position one way or the other, just submitting this as an interesting read: http://english.pravda.ru/print/science/earth/106922-earth_ice_age-0
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BOOM!
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Darvin, you are making the argument I made here on this very same thread a few months ago. You would have to scroll back quite a few pages, but I said that Ogrovs and Adjudicators are NOT supplied correctly, i.e. they cost way too much supply for what they do. Don't get me wrong, I don't want them made OP (too cheap). But I want a reason to build them over bombers. I went down the list comparing them to bombers, and I almost never see a reason to invest in thes
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[quote]Looking through the game files, I noticed there was an undocumented buff to the Vasari heavy frigate's DPS. Not commenting on it's viability, just thought it odd that it wasn't mentioned in the changelog![/quote] So is there or isn't there?
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Since the vasari SB is the vasari anti-structure weapon, I see no problem giving the disintegrators an upgrade to help it FULFILL ITS ROLE AS AN ANTI-STRUCTURE WEAPON. Upping disintegrators wouldn't make the thing OP or allow it to kill fleets any better. It would just help it DO ITS JOB OF KILLING STRUCTURES. Ogrovs and Adjudicators don't have problems killing structures, why should the orky?
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[quote]Is anyone else confused by the contradictory statement made by psychoak? The state can do whatever the hell they want?[/quote] You left out the bit about "as long as they don't dick over any of your rights in the process." I'm not confused by it. It's not contradictory. It's called "state's rights." He said he's a strict constructionist (so am I). All powers not specifically granted by the constitution to the federal government are reserved to th
[quote]I would thoroughly debunk your pathetic website link... [/quote] Debunk? What's there to debunk? I said it was a entertaining read. I didn't say it was anything more. Why does an entertaining read need to be debunked? [quote]Every fossil is transitional.[/quote] LOL. In logic class this is called the Fallacy of Bare Assertion. Unfortunately, I'm quite used to bare assertions when I deal with evolutionists. It's pretty mu
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1" id="2527398"]The pacing options alone make it a critical upgrade for MP.[/quote] Actually, that's one reason I'm hoping MP *doesn't* pick up diplomacy. Games already fly too fast for me to be able to put forth my best effort. Any faster and I guess I simply won't be able to play at all :-(
So I've heard no reports of playtesting the new entrenchment patch. Any change in MP? Seeker spam still viable? Vasari skirmishers any more viable? Scramble bombers any good? Do illums still seem ridiculously OP (probably)? People generally happy or unhappy? Etc. I can't play online right now (as of the last week or so). In fact, I don't have enough internet connectivity at the moment to even download the patch. That will change in
[quote]but a level 6 Dunov in multiplayer is also a miracle. I've personally never seen one.[/quote] I got a Dunov to level 7 a few weeks ago in a pretty awesome 5v5 (MP). Unfortunately, it died before I could put it to much use. The game was great though, and quite unusual (featured a guy who fast-teched to kostura cannons - yes fast-teched). Perhaps I should post a replay. To comment on the OP's post, I sort of consider TEC the no-frills, non-fancy, come s