I won on brutal with the Germak on a small and normal map. The 1st time around I ran the universe into a stalemate, having only 3 other factions alive and me being super friendly with them all The 2nd was a lot more fun. I got the upper hand pretty quick and expanded in a small universe pretty fast....

I couldn't transport or move any of them off the planet and my resources were so stretched thin, I was waiting for some temporary research option to "train" them into some usable population. Nope, they bread like tribbles and were just about as useful.

Possible problem : No bonus from two space stations with Construction modules on them. Uploaded "Game_1606" Construction modules don't provide bonuses; they are a requirement for building larger classes of ships (you need one for cruiser-class ships or colony ships, and a second for capit...

Possible problem: No bonus from two space stations with Construction modules on them.

Uploaded "Game_1606"

If I'm spelling it right, just consume space on a planet and food. There is no way to remove them from a planet. Is there any way to kill/convert them?

Now I know where those performance issues come in when you got 100+ planets.

This is a universe with just 50 planets!

Point defense will be less effective against bombers than missiles; a point defense "hit" on a bomber will have a chance to make the bomber miss its attack and waste the ordnance. This should result in a fairly similar amount of damage per bombing run, but more bombers will survive to ret...

I haven't lost a game yet when playing the Germak.

16 point defense guns only took out one bomber? On another turn, 8 standard Coilguns only took out 2 or 3 bombers and sometimes none. With a 140% hit rate that is really frightening. I'm also pretty sure that the description of the PD guns was designed to take out missiles and "smaller crafts&q...

bjg wrote:Seems like carriers are becoming useful.
Are they expensive enough?

Yea but it's making all other ships useless and I mean useless.
http://i.imgur.com/LybMq3u.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xi1Fpsw.jpg

Uploaded "game_1569" for fleet in action

It may also be because I'm playing that nightmare mode they just made.

Before, the carrier's fighters/bombers were taken out with ease, perhaps way too easily. Now, a full load out of the Gremak light cruiser (1x pd mass driver x4 Mass drivers with long range and Accuracy option) -may- take out 3-5 small craft in a turn. I think I need three light cruisers just to hand...

Problem: Initial turret mount amount halves when adding any weapon, even the same type.
In ship edit mode http://i.imgur.com/0zKDFHU.jpg
after adding exact same weapons http://i.imgur.com/5W00XEo.jpg

Uploaded "Game_1567"

I know this may sound sadistic for people who want the most powerful ships in the galaxy, but how would you feel to a technology block or limit to how far the game will allow you to research, for all AI players too. You could have a game where only missiles are used or no rail guns and primary guns,...

I wonder if a work around, for now, would be to have two separate instances of battles.
One that lets you attack the fleet you want to kill and a second instance where can retreat or not fight the other alien fleet you want to "help"