08-08-2018, 02:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-08-2018, 03:12 AM by Mr. Mortius.)
Why would you waste eight hours on a single fight against some spacecraft? In that time you could build about 24 maximum population old style cities, take more than that from the enemy by avoiding the ships, or ram some cheap designs into them for easy kills. Fighting them ship to ship is an inefficient use of time.
I don't take you seriously. You were part of Syndicate? I fought against Syndicate with a small group of two other people and held off a group of 6-8 for a long time without much trouble. Later I matched the population of their entire combined efforts (~350-400k empire loyal population) alone while there were still only old style cities in the game. You took down a TL32 empire singlehandedly? First thing I did when I joined the game, using my tl4 shuttle while I still had no idea that the lights were blinking red because I'd left the doors open. I'll be the first to admit I was a clueless and near useless player at that time. I've conquered over 130 empires since then, many of them multiple players against me alone, and only lost once. Most importantly, I've actually played the game recently, instead of hiding in some remote corner of space.
If you can take down the shields on a new style ship, you can take down the ship in another few hits, especially after the health reduction recently. Fights between ships are no longer hour long slogs. All energy weapons have the same range now, no matter the volume dedicated to them. There is no point anymore in the old jousting strategy. Warfare has changed since then, and your information is badly out of date. Please try and leave suggestions on mechanics to people who are familiar with them.
This is something many people seem to have difficulty understanding. If you cannot destroy an obstacle directly, go around it or figure out some more creative way to deal with it. I just recently took down a group of three Q220 ships and a similar station with a Q80 shuttle design, no boarding involved. There's certainly no shortage of options.
I don't take you seriously. You were part of Syndicate? I fought against Syndicate with a small group of two other people and held off a group of 6-8 for a long time without much trouble. Later I matched the population of their entire combined efforts (~350-400k empire loyal population) alone while there were still only old style cities in the game. You took down a TL32 empire singlehandedly? First thing I did when I joined the game, using my tl4 shuttle while I still had no idea that the lights were blinking red because I'd left the doors open. I'll be the first to admit I was a clueless and near useless player at that time. I've conquered over 130 empires since then, many of them multiple players against me alone, and only lost once. Most importantly, I've actually played the game recently, instead of hiding in some remote corner of space.
If you can take down the shields on a new style ship, you can take down the ship in another few hits, especially after the health reduction recently. Fights between ships are no longer hour long slogs. All energy weapons have the same range now, no matter the volume dedicated to them. There is no point anymore in the old jousting strategy. Warfare has changed since then, and your information is badly out of date. Please try and leave suggestions on mechanics to people who are familiar with them.
This is something many people seem to have difficulty understanding. If you cannot destroy an obstacle directly, go around it or figure out some more creative way to deal with it. I just recently took down a group of three Q220 ships and a similar station with a Q80 shuttle design, no boarding involved. There's certainly no shortage of options.