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[quote]Squadrons rebuild in a few minutes.[/quote] I see squadrons replaced instantaneously. [quote]Squadrons are 100% reliant on sustaining their numbers to remain viable. If the number deteriorates faster than it can be rebuilt, then the carriers are left unable to do damage. If this happens in seconds, the carrier ends up doing 1 volley of damage before it dies/runs/craps its pants.[/quote] So what? That means the carriers are countered, right? I'll sa

Reply to Possible Solution for Overpowered SCs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Bobucles" reply="17" id="2065038"] "Balance the flak so that if this ratio is there, and if strikecraft fly within range of the flak, they are dead. Period." Do you mean "give them a few minutes" die or "kill them on sight" die?[/quote] I mean that, conceptually, the strikecraft are "countered." Now, if you say that it might take several minutes to kill the strikecraft with a particular flak balance, meanwhile the strikecraft have destroyed everything in t

Reply to Possible Solution for Overpowered SCs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]If flak really gets the power to liquify fleets simply by LOOKING at them, then carriers become worthless.[/quote] I don't know that I said flak should have the power to liquefy by simply LOOKING. Just off the top of my head, it should be balanced the same as any other counter for any other unit in the game. What is the "liquefy by looking" ratio of, say, lrms to light frigates? Is it half as many lrms will take out twice the light frigs, leaving what.

Reply to Sieges - Does anyone even use them online? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]My favorite scenario is when I find a cluster of planets that the enemy has neglected to defend well. You send in 6 SFs and murder a planet. Unless the main fleet is literally next door, they'll try to take out your SFs with a small force of a few LRM frigates or whatnot. When they do, you scatter the group - send the 6 SFs in groups of 2 in 3 different directions, if you can, and hit 3 more undefended planets. Keep going back and forth like this for as long as you can. The economic da

Reply to Sieges - Does anyone even use them online? in Strategy Sins Forums

Do **NOT**, I repeat do **NOT** even remotely consider buffing siege frigate armor, hit points, or survivability! Period, paragraph, end of story! PERIOD! If anything, I'd nerf it even more! The hit points and survivability should not be above a scout frigate! After getting the game the first day it came out, and going through the first patch, I simply put the game down and walked away for a year. Never touched it, never considered playing it again,

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Astax" reply="10" id="2064459"]well the back up to enforcers is subverter. If he has a lot of hoshikos then of course he is going to demobot you, you need to disable hoshikos first and then they will die fast to enforcers + damage, then you can work on carriers.[/quote] See my "postmortem analsis" thread from about 2 days ago (strategy forum I believe). I tried enforcers plus subs against hoshiko and carrier spam. The subs never got to do jack crap becaus

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]that's why i said its easy for tec and advent, much ahrder for vasari.[/quote] Oh. Duhh. So what's the counter for vasari, besides enforcers with damage upgrade and inertia field (I won't get either - if straight enforcers get slaughtered, I can't see how the upgrades will make a difference, and I'll be dead before I can get 7 labs anyway)?

Reply to What's your most hated ship? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]For completely ruining this game and making it into a spammer's heaven.[/quote] Thing is, before carriers people spammed lrms. People will always spam something - you will never get away from that. Period. That's this game, and that's every other game. If carriers are nerfed, there will be a new spam. Now, that doesn't mean carriers shouldn't be nerfed (perhaps they should be, perhaps they shouldn't be). It's simply to say that you should jus

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]If all he built was carriers + hoshiko then ti would be cake to counter him as TEC or Advent.Mass cobalts or mass disciples would slaughter him.[/quote] I tried mass skirmishers and could not kill carriers + hoshikos this game. I tried mass enforcers in a game yesterday and could not kill hoshikos that were essentially by themselves.

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Nope, can't upload a screenshot no matter what I do! Happens every time. [quote]Well at least after several names exchanged between the two of us, there is something in common now.[/quote] I think we still have a disagreement, because the way I see it you complain about tactics, and want them forcibly removed from the game. I don't mind tactics at all. It is important to realize that what I was testing here was the units themselves, with NO tactics. H

Reply to An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="2" id="2064287"]Are we talking Entrenchment 2.5 or Sins 1.13?[/quote] Sins 1.13. I have entrenchment, but I'd probably have extreme trouble getting an online game with it, thus my tests are on Sins 1.13. I will try to post some screenshots of the game, but not sure the replay will work good enough. Also, even if it does work, I've had trouble getting screenshots to post in the past.

Reply to Why so much hate to TEC robotic cruisers.... in Strategy Sins Forums

My problem with overseers is that I can't get them to autocast. The autocast is on, but they just sit there and do nothing. I just tried it again a few seconds ago in an online match. Built one, it wouldn't autocast, so I didn't build anymore. Wasted the research. I mean, how am I supposed to compete with a tec player if his hoshikos are spamming repair automatically, while I am having to manually click on an overseer and manually click on a unit to heal up?

Reply to Possible Solution for Overpowered SCs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Also, see the thread I'm about to post on my most recent attempt to counter strikecraft without building carriers of my own (extreme failure).[/quote] https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/340117

An attempt at countering carriers WITHOUT building carriers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

QUESTION: Is it possible to counter the much-vaunted carrier and its associated strikecraft WITHOUT building carriers? I decided to test it personally. SYNOPSIS: I chose an online opponent whom I have played before, and whom my friends have played (and beaten). The people I play with consider him "mediocre." We played a 1v1, random small map. I chose vasari, he chose tec. OPEN: I dropped a mil lab right away, queued up a space wh

Reply to Possible Solution for Overpowered SCs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]There is NO way to balance flak damage values against carrier hit and run tactics, because it has nothing to do with the flak's damage, the squadron's health, nor the carrier's rebuild rate. The carrier doesn't stick around long enough for any of those things to become a factor. It's all because the carrier can do high speed and high damage hit and run attacks, and it can keep on doing it without personal restriction. No other ship can do this.[/quote] I'm not sure I

Reply to Postmortem analysis - your input is requested in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote who="dhomochevsky" reply="9" id="2063640"]How on earth was your first clash with fleets that large on a small map? Your best bet against TEC is to rush him. Midgame, his production capability and the lvl 6 Marza he should have had give him the advantage.[/quote] It was a 4 player map. The other 2 players dropped, leaving only me and him. Still, it was a "small" map compared to the huge maps some people play. It was the topmost random map you can play on medium

Reply to A thought to balance carriers in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]That's pretty non sequitur.[/quote] I beg to differ. [quote]I was just emphasizing the fact there IS no tactics to realistically catch the Carriers that chill out at the edge of the grav well.[/quote] The correct plural is "ARE no tactics," not "IS no tactics." At any rate, I don't necessarily agree with you, but perhaps you shouldn't be trying to catch them anyway - at least not in the way that you are trying to do it. Perhaps that's one of your

Overseer bugs? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Was playing around with overseers. 1) If you buff a unit's max HP then heal it up real quick to max, then buff it again, you lose hit points. The "rebuff" takes off the hit points you just gained, and you have to heal them up all over again. Is this a bug, or intended? 2) I couldn't really get overseers to autocast. Has anyone seen them do it?

Reply to What Entrenchment is Missing in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote]This is the reason why. A small fleet of light carriers jump in, staying out of the SB's guns then releases their SC. They just chill at the extreme edge of the gravity well for 3-5 minutes, jumping out at any sign of trouble if needed. The Strike Craft, the SB has in its hangers are not enough to defeat the spam and unlike the spam fleet those SC can ONLY defend the SB making them much less usefull. Then the SB dies. Wow, that flippin fantastic isn't it? [/quote] As

Reply to A thought to balance carriers in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]If you can't deal with tactics, challenge yourself to learn a few, come up with new ones on your own, and counter the ones that are bothering you now. Wouldn't that be more interesting than simply saying "remove tactics from the game!" ?[/quote] As an illustration, this is the story of the first time I encountered carriers. I jumped into a grav well with a bunch of assailants. The guy had a small number of carriers. I said "Hah, those carriers are dead meat!&

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[quote]and oh ya, the carrier jump out the instant you get in range for some dmg. Wow he just played you for a fool there... nice. [/quote] Dorian, it seems that with statements like these, you are actually against something called "tactics." It seems that you want to remove tactics from the game. It seems you just want all ships to square up against each other, look each other in the eyes, then unload guns into each other until the last man is standing. You could

Reply to Possible Solution for Overpowered SCs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Caps don't need flak guns - that's what flak frigs are for. Caps having flak guns ensures that flak frigs remain useless. Someone will say "but flak frigs suck! we can't use those!" Well, the solution isn't to stick flak guns on caps, the solution is to FIX THE DAMN FLAK FRIGS! Doesn't that sound easy enough to understand? Edit: In thinking about it rationally, cap ships already have features of other frigs, i.e. they have long range missles, they have

Unit nerfs - BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I've seen so many complaints about carriers and strikecraft lately, I am putting this reply of mine in its own thread. Please note that I do not necessarily "like" carrier spam/strikecraft spam any more than anyone else does, but it isn't an issue of what I like, it's an issue of "picking your poison" so to speak. [quote]If I have to choose which spam to live with in the game, I choose carrier spam. At least that way you actually SEE other unit types (lrf) on the way to ca

Reply to Why can't carrier ships have weapons? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]very heated dicussion. but serioulsy ironclad does need to nerf the carriers a little bit. the game is no fun when you have to build espensive carriers instead of the ships you want to build. there is no stragety anymore. all it is is whoever hase the most fighters and bombers(i will not say carriers because advent carriers carry 3 wheras vasari and TEC carry 2)and adding flak guns would be retarded because THAT IS FUCKING FLAK FRIGATES ARE FUCKING FOR!![/quote] No nerf to carr

Reply to Postmortem analysis - your input is requested in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]Get overseers before you get enforcers you'll see overseers do wonders.[/quote] Please explain. I played with overseers a long time ago to test them and figured they were crap. Had some ability which for a short time caused hp to creep up to a higher level, but the effect isn't instantanous, it doesn't last a long time, and it has to be micromanaged otherwise it just buffs anything and everything, even stuff that's already been buffed. Explain. [quot