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by zenopath
Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:56 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Slave armies?
Replies: 6
Views: 11671

Re: Slave armies?

Honestly the whole slavery thing isn't tremendously useful after early game. It is probably easier to simply not use slaves after you depopulate your Enfi, but, as a challenge mode, full slavery can be done. The best solution is pharma bliss tech... drugged slaves don't feel pain. Its interesting to...
by zenopath
Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:12 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Slave armies?
Replies: 6
Views: 11671

Re: Slave armies?

You realize you can just force labor or experiment on your slaves right? Best solution is to grab a big planet like Tyr and just ship all the slaves there. Make it nice, maybe, like lot of markets, (so they don't rebel while waiting their turn) and then just systematically experiment on the slaves o...
by zenopath
Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:17 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Comparative Ship Strengths
Replies: 8
Views: 19982

Re: Comparative Ship Strengths

I disagree with the underlying assumptions here because you aren't taking into account build costs and effectiveness at capture. I would say that the various races ships are, in order of combat ability: 1- Yoral: The torpedo destroyer with its absurd 14 missile capacity built in extra magazine for l...
by zenopath
Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:46 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Military transports are too strong
Replies: 23
Views: 71722

Re: Military transports are too strong

I just think there should be counterplay. I know this game is pretty much dead, with no hope of anything really changing, but imagine an item, system slot maybe which addresses this issue. How about"Internal Defense Turrets" which doubles the effective marine strength of the defender? A sh...
by zenopath
Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:34 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Minor Bug
Replies: 0
Views: 20001

Minor Bug

THis is pretty minor, but it bugs me a bit. Ships armed only with Pulson Launchers (the presence of PD doesn't matter) do not know their own range. Autocombat them against fixed targets like planets, they will sit outside of combat range and cause a draw. Hit the little gear icon during manual comba...
by zenopath
Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:07 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: First research goals
Replies: 11
Views: 23858

Re: First research goals

For Phidi, rushing to teir 2 markets makes a fair amount of sense. I guess if you going to do that anyways, you can go ahead and put a bunch of scout labs on your scouts. Also Phidi have pretty subpar ships anyways, as they are expected to use mercenaries to fight, and their best early game ship is ...
by zenopath
Sun Apr 24, 2022 6:52 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: First research goals
Replies: 11
Views: 23858

Re: First research goals

A lot of people seem to like building labs on their scouts. IMO you really don't have enough alloys to make that practical. I just can't see budgeting for that sort of construction when you've got colony ships to build. So unless you only plan to build 1 lab on your existing scout ship, which hardly...
by zenopath
Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:41 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: First research goals
Replies: 11
Views: 23858

Re: First research goals

My goto first research is marketplaces. This is a cheap tech that is actually pretty important. You're almost guaranteed a native species in one of the planets near you, and ploping down a marketplace or two will definitely help keep them from rioting and rebelling. It also helps with colonization, ...
by zenopath
Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:54 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Military transports are too strong
Replies: 23
Views: 71722

Re: Military transports are too strong

I don't know if this is a bug or working as intended, but any ship with shuttles has a built in boarding pod functionality. That is to say, if you equip marine shuttles, you don't have to risk them to PD, you can just bump up to any enemy ship and just try to capture it. There's no defense against i...
by zenopath
Sun Feb 28, 2021 4:01 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: The AI might be a little too willing to nuke worlds.
Replies: 4
Views: 25118

Re: The AI might be a little too willing to nuke worlds.

I think there are two basic options. You could add in a “selective bombing” type to the invasion screen, costs 2 or 3x as many bombs to use, but it has a much lower civilian population casualty rate. That way, if the AI has massive fleets it can use this against the player or another AI to capture w...
by zenopath
Thu Feb 25, 2021 5:55 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: The AI might be a little too willing to nuke worlds.
Replies: 4
Views: 25118

The AI might be a little too willing to nuke worlds.

This is kind of an interesting thought for me, because it isn't immediately obvious why this is a problem. First consider it from the point of view of the player, a player who uses bombardment to nuke worlds is at a serious disadvantage because recolonizing every world would be expensive and you los...
by zenopath
Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:57 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Does anyone know the HP of missiles and fighters?
Replies: 1
Views: 11928

Does anyone know the HP of missiles and fighters?

I'm curious as to what the hp of missiles and fighters look like. Does armor tech affect how much they have? It seems to me like anti-missile rockets are a lot more effective than lasers, is that because defense lasers need multiple hits to blow up each missile? Does the 8 damage of an antimatter an...
by zenopath
Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:02 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: The AI does not know fear (when it really should)
Replies: 16
Views: 53124

Re: The AI does not know fear (when it really should)

In the formula posted for combat strength, that should really be additive, not multiplicative. If a superdreadnought has 500 defence and 500 attack power, it shouldn't count as being worth 25x as much as a ship with 100 defence and 100 attack power, as there is no way a superdreadnought could solo a...
by zenopath
Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:25 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: The AI does not know fear (when it really should)
Replies: 16
Views: 53124

Re: The AI does not know fear (when it really should)

The yoral torped destroyer armed with AM missiles is so incredibly broken. I love the little ship, it does suffer in late game a bit against enemies armed with a lot of lasers. The solution is always to just build more. Local point defense gets overwhelmed, especially if you close in close enough to...
by zenopath
Sat Feb 13, 2021 4:56 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: The AI does not know fear (when it really should)
Replies: 16
Views: 53124

The AI does not know fear (when it really should)

This happened to me a lot during my last game as yorals. I had a full antimatter torpedo destroyer fleet. There is nothing deadlier, honestly, yorals are OP because of that one simple ship. That's not the problem. The problem is that whatever code the AI uses to calculate the odds of beating you in ...

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