One idea about the phasing...maybe every ship thats fired on a non-capital ship incrementally slows down the units movement and phase jump time? So if my 15 ships had shot your unit A within the last second then your unit will move half as fast as long that many of my ships continue firing. 30 ships would then quarter the speed, etc.
Blair: Yes it was the "host rejection" problem. I can host games just fine but there were several I couldn't join. Now you said that AI players don't take over for dropped players. That's fine as long as the other players can control the dropped player's units and technology. I don't believe this to be the case but I could be wrong (I certainly didn't try during my game). One of these two things has to exist because there a multitude of reasons why people leave. Several of the
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Certainly an odd location for the subforums...the order most of us are used to dealing with is forum -> subforum -> threads and not forum -> threads/subforms. Ah well...thanks for pointing it out at least. The subforums should really be visible from the main forum section.
I liked the pirates in the MP game that I played even though they were generally used against me. Bribing the pirates to attack a specific player just added one more thing to think about in assessing your strategy.
Got home from work, played this game about 5 hours with few interruptions. I played a 4v4 MP game that lasted about 2.5 hours before what was left of our team saw the writing on the wall and left. I had to host a game because nearly every game I tried to join had the host connection issue (seems common). Also I found it odd that I could not change the map or player slots once a game room is created. One player also lagged out from our game at the very start. The AI that took over for dropped/qui