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Reply to Sova Carrier missile batteries clarification in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

That looks accurate. The Missile Battery is also subject to the hull/shield/armor/DPS upgrades that frigates recieve through research.

Reply to A thought to balance carriers in Strategy Sins Forums

Even so, flaks still can have their damage output increased through autocannon/laser/phase missile research.

Reply to Colonizing Dead roids in Strategy Sins Forums

Development Mandate is particularly useful in places with lots of dead asteroids or asteroids, in particular Storm Front, where each side gets 2 or 3 dead asteroids.

Reply to Some Capital Ship abilities I don't understand how to use or why you'd use them in Strategy Sins Forums

Of course, most people now are wary of what a lvl 6 Marza can do and are building ships that can cut off Missile Barrage (Akkan/Ion Bolt, Radiance/Detonate AM, Revelation/Reverie, Marauder/Phase Out Hull). I'd also like to point out that Phase Out Hull causes the affected ship to "forget" its orders, on top of cutting off any channeling abilities.

Reply to Advent Crusader in Strategy Sins Forums

Ruthlessness doesn't affect strike craft, last I checked. It's also not disabled when the Crusader is hit by Distortion Field.

Reply to Help with Advent in Strategy Sins Forums

The supposed handicap of the Advent Illuminator requiring 3 Hostility Labs (and associated reserach costs) can be mitigated by the Illuminator's high damage output, which can be attributed to its three beam emitters. Illuminators have a fairly good DPS/cost ratio, and when you consider your alternatives, LFs are, like you've already mentioned, too easily killed, flaks aren't that effective in frigate-to-frigate combat, and Aerias are prohibitively expensive (in terms of both credit and resour

Reply to What about having Capital Logistics doing more than capital slots? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I wouldn't necessarily agree with zero fleet capacity, at least greater than the frigate with the highest required Fleet Capacity (which would be the Aeria with 20 fleet supply). For Vasari players, this gives them even more fleet supply space when they already have a tech that increases their max supply by 7.5%/15%. It would make sense if capital ships became less expensive, since the descriptions for each level of Capital Logistics is to make recruitment of capital crews easier. How

Reply to man i suck. in Strategy Sins Forums

In terms of hull/shield/armor upgrades, its probably a good idea to research them concurrently instead of completely focusing on one then moving onto another. For one, the early upgrades are cheap which won't hurt your economy too much while you're still building it up.

Reply to A petition: make Cap Ships stronger in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="MindsEye" reply="5" id="2055316"]Thats one of the problems. It takes so long and if you buy levels its really expensive to level them up.They are reall only useful around 4th level. I think they need to put in research to upgrade mitigation for caps only at 4th or 5th tier.[/quote] The problem with this arises when the Advent capital ships are in question. At maximum cultural and their existing shield mitigation research, a mere level 1 capital can have 75% mitigation (at

Reply to Why no upgrade to ship's speed in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The Antorak already has Distort Gravity, which increases its max speed and acceleration by 33%/66%/100%.

Reply to Sova missle batteries in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The Battery is also considered a frigate, so its also subject to shield/hull/armor/DPS upgrades provided by research, basically making it a hardier, but immobile LRF.

Reply to Pirate raids not random in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If you have 250 bounty on your head and everyone else zero at the start of a raid, once the raid has been launched, the new countdown starts, but the 250 bounty on your head has not disappeared, therefore making you the target of the next raid. Even if the bounty against you drops to zero, you're still the target, since targets are randomized only after the launch of a raid (or the start of the game).

Reply to How do you use a Wormhole? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="6" id="2053015"]It's 5 civic centers for all factions. No prerequisites.[/quote] Except for Vasari. They get their wormhole travel tech at Tier 4.

Reply to How do you use a Wormhole? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Wormhole travel still costs AM just like a normal jump.

Reply to Loyalty loss in Strategy Sins Forums

Capital ships also repel culture, higher leveled ones will repel more strongly.

Reply to Attack Range in Strategy Sins Forums

Have you tried setting the engagement range to "Hold Position"? By default, this is set to "Gravity Well" (so it engages anything and everything that is hostile in the gravity well), but can be set to "Local Area" (exactly how "local" is a mystery to me) and "Hold Position". The button has a large blue oval for the entire well, smaller green for local area, and I believe a small red X for hold position.

Reply to Hoshiko's in Strategy Sins Forums

Not to mention that Demo Bots inflicts a 200% penalty to max speed and acceleration. It works really well on Heavy Cruisers so you can save your more vulnerable ships, like LRFs, Flaks, Light Frigs, and other support ships.

Reply to Advent in Strategy Sins Forums

Ship diversity is important for Advent fleets as their abilities are very complimentary of each other. The most sought after frigate in Advent fleets for abilities is probably the Iconus Guardian for its Shield Projection and Repulsion abilities. Oh, and Holy Trinity = Progenitor Mothership, Radiance Battleship, Rapture Battlecruiser. Read their abilities, think of how they can mesh together, and you can see for yourself what kind of destruction this trio can wreak upon their enemies.

Reply to Planet bonuses and Artifact bonuses in Strategy Sins Forums

Dead asteroids can have these 3 bonuses: Porous Core Penal Colony Roiders Outpost Pirate Bases can only have 1 bonus: Plundered Booty Asteroids can have the dead asteroid bonuses and: Expert Crystal Miners Expert Metal Miners Kalanite Deposits Volcanic Planets can have these 10 bonuses: Caustic Atmosphere Habitable Cavern System Dense Molten Core Ionic Storms Expert Metal Miners Penal Colony Kalanite

Reply to Taking over planets in Strategy Sins Forums

Are you talking about the militia forces that are initially there or wresting control of it from another player?

Reply to Vasari Phase Cloaking Ability Useless? in Strategy Sins Forums

Upgrade it to the second level of Phasic Cloaking, put the Navigator at a star, disable autocast, and use Phasic Cloaking. Since the star regenerates AM faster than Phasic Cloaking consumes it (2.5/sec restored versus 2.0/sec consumed), the Navigator can never be destroyed until you pull it out and you have effectively permanent visibility of the star. However, outside of that, Phasic Cloaking only prolongs the lifetime of your scout by a few seconds if frigates are around. In

Reply to Trade and Refineries in Strategy Sins Forums

Increasing the size of cargo holds simply increases the rate you earn credits (and for TEC, resources) by x% from trade ships, depending on what level research you have. Your credit income rate is constant and is not increased every time a trade ship reaches a trade port. However, enemies which destroy your trade ships earn credits for blowing it up (though you want to be a little careful approaching Advent Trade Drones - with appropriate research, not only will they give you the credits they

Reply to Shield Mitigation Explanation in Strategy Sins Forums

More accurately, the damage reduction as a result of 1 point of armor is the same as having 5% more hull. Aside from the number of armor points on a ship, the armor type also is a factor in how damage is calculated. Every destroyable object in Sins has one of the following types of armor: Very Light, Light (one for Bombers, one for frigates), Medium, Heavy, Very Heavy, or Capital. Each of these types provides a percentage reduction in damage from certain weapons, and conversely, a per

Reply to Nano-Disassembler in Strategy Sins Forums

The purple circle denotes the range that the Evacuator can use Nano-Disassembler. Any ship inside the circle can be targeted without the Evacuator moving (though it may require it to rotate).

Reply to TEC strategy question in Strategy Sins Forums

Sixteen Progenitors? One thing your opponent is definitely missing is ship-to-ship firepower (although you can be relieved that those 800 fleet points are not spent on even more Aeria Drone Hosts). Worst case scenario, your opponent has 800 points in capitals, 210 points worth of Guardians, and therefore, on normal fleet settings up to 990 points of Drone Hosts (in version 1.1, that amounts to maximum 49 Drone Hosts, with 10 leftover points) With the 1.1+ updates, though, the