Dude, advent are not broken. Play TEC and get trade ports up while cranking out heavy cruisers. I posted a replay on the win customize site. I don't know if its up now. The strategy I use there will [I]cremate[/I] an illuminator fleet.
[quote]A straight LRM rush, that really focuses on rushing instead of expanding can be countered with scouts.[/quote] I've done this before too.
[quote] If they embargo you, you're even more screwed.[/quote] I always build radience, so I've never encountered this problem.
One more note: You might lose a cap ship or a couple cruisers if you send in everything at once, but you would be suprised how fast 60+ fighters will tear through 80+ bombers.
[quote]Of course there is a point where you are going to lose your caps in anyway cause you cant kill all the bombers before they kill your cap. Its like having a 100 lrm FF on your cap... no chance of escape.[/quote] I like to send in: 1) a scout to see enemy positions 2) all my carriers and support to entry point opp enemy cruisers (he will have a couple) 3) wait 20 secs while running carriers away from planet and cruisers 4) Intercept with caps and cruisers (you
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Ok ok, so I think i'm being one-sided, but do not give an explanation. Either type /signed or I sign. or / not signed or I disagree.
No I'm not. I've made this work. They need about 2/3 the flak that you make the hosts, or the flak get overwhelmed. If they build that many flak, then that's a significant investment. "15 LRMS and 6 flak" You have 108 fighters. What happens is that you kill all his LRMS, hands down.
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[quote]For future reference, If you "don't think this petition is worthy of signing", then don't sign it. I can't stress this enough.[/quote] ... [quote]shift+click.[/quote] ... nevermind. Can I delete this post somehow?
TEC LRMS are a slightly bigger problem, due to the abiltiy to get them fairly early. My suggestion is to build carriers in a 1:2 ratio like what you did. TEC LRMs are very very squishy, and they will die where advent illums woudn't.
Dude, just tech right to heavy cruisers... It's only 2 extra military researches from advent illums, and he spent all his crystal on those illums, so he can't catch up in time. Once you demolish his illums, start cranking out seiges. Find the planet with his factories.
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[quote]I don't think this petition is worthy of signing. What you are asking for is already elegantly implemented with waypoints. You can create any patrol route of any complexity or length desired just by shift-clicking your patrol destinations in sequence.Furthermore, as anecdotal evidence, the #2* use of waypoints for me is to manage my scouts and ensure they give me as much reconnaissance as possible for my credits. Your scouts should never be sitting idle in a grav well.(* #1 use is to prio
Look,the key to this game is to start by rushing to heavy cruisers. Then, wait for your opponent to select a counter and counter that. Then counter the next strat. Whatever, do this until someone makes a mistake and loses a ton of ships. For example: 1) two sides have heavy cruisers 2) one side builds subverters 3) i build light frigates with am drain 4) he builds lrms 5) i build fighters 6) he builds flak 7) I build more heavy cruisers 8) he builds
"My LRM's not only kill your light frigates, but they kill two of the most important things in the game: Capital ships and Buildings. [B][I]They'll also do fine against HC's[/I][/B]." If by "do fine" you mean "get slaughtered", then I have to agree.
One thing I don't agree with is that fighters/bombers don't work well. The reason this person thinks that heavy cruisers are overpowered is probably that he doesn't build bombers ;). I always have at least as many fighter squadrens as I have cruisers. A lot more if I'm playing advent, or it's late in the game. A great advantage is that I can always switch some to bombers if he doesn't bring a lot himself. The only real counter to this is if someone splits his fleet into flaks, bombers, and light
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/signed Note: you can type / not signed also.
[quote]Effective, yes. But by no means a single carrier is able to shut down an entire planet. Thats a little over the board, don't you agree?That I perfectly agree with! I disagreed with the guy I quoted, who said doing it was a stupid idea (as opposed to having the imbalance in the game, which is a stupid idea). Here's why. On smaller maps where people know this rush can be coming, people tend to make the battleship. You need all the firepower you can in the beginning because you have to a
[quote]speaking of targeting bugs, i love how my LRMs will fly into the range of gauss so they can attack hangars thats why u generaly leave LRM's at hold position stance... still fascinating to get this insite on just how useful this beta testing is. great work so far IC.[/quote] Agreed. Local Area and Hold Position are priceless. Use them or lose your ships. Put defending flaks on local area and LRMs on hold position. Put support cruisers specifically made to guard carriers on hold po
[quote]I just invade with two carriers, a few light carriers and some frigates etc. They're not so weak when there's a swarm of about 50 bombers and 20 or so fighters. Ah, the fun of sitting back and watching the enemy explode in clouds of debris. Aside from that, you may indeed have a point regarding speed, but I'm not one to judge.[/quote] Actually, they are very strong ordinarily (I don't know about the bug.). In fact, the only real way to counter 50 (or 80+) bombers is to have 40 (
Actually, if you scuttle all the stuff in the raided planet, the pirates leave. Sometiems it can be cost-worthy to just let them take out your planet.
I always build a radience first as advent, so I don't know what you are talking about. Anti-matter burn.
Did anyone play a game called "Impossible Creatures"? Look it up. They had this feature. You could create your own impossible creatures ahead of time (but i don't think you could switch it up in-game). That made the strategy weird. You would counter someone before you even started the game, or you would gimp yourself. Basically, you could take light frigate guns and put them on a heavy cruiser, or you could put heavy cruiser guns on a light frigate. The result would be reflected in the price of
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I have found that mini-dumps occur much more often the more you frequently you load a saved game. If you keep loading your game from a saved point, you will get a mini-dump.
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If your cd-key does not work, then how did you sign onto the forumns?
Dudes, would someone address the fighter heavy idea? A small number of flaks (25 or so) would not take out 60+ fighters...
First, it should be determined that the strategy has no viable counter. I think 60+ fighters plus a cruiser heavy fleet will take them. Plus, a lot of people spam bombers, so that might be a good general strategy. Hopefully, you will have enough cruisers of your own to take out his. And if you don't and if you see he went cruiser heavy as well (meaning he has less bombers), then retreat and switch some fighters to bombers.