(02-07-2022, 12:39 AM)QuakeIV Wrote: To be honest, reducing combat from a shooting war to getting spammed to death over hail for a week sounds truly terrible.
Is the "hail spam" the only part of it that you guys don't like? Or why is that the focus so often?
More like forcing the attacker to actually commit at least a single warship to each solar system they want to siege, and allow the defender to repel the siege if they have better or more warships than the attacker. Also I guess causing some actual space combat, instead of "you bomb their cities, they bomb your cities, repeat" wars.
(02-07-2022, 12:39 AM)QuakeIV Wrote: The only issue you seem have is 'what if they put a shield on every airless moon that doesnt matter' and then failed five times in a row to come up with a response to 'just ignore the planets that dont matter'.
I wasn't given a reason why players shouldn't put a super-shield-thingy-building on every tiny moon. Waving your hand and say "most players won't bother doing that" makes no sense, especially in Hazeron where resources are infinite.
I don't see how I failed to reply to that five times.
Lets do a quick example, you have a nice empire with a border you tell everyone not to cross, but you go inactive for a few days for whatever reason. A neighbor crosses your border and settles a rather useless but big solar system in the middle of your capital sector inorder to extend their sensor coverage. They colonize all 25 worlds in the solar system, making them all self-sufficient and construction super-shield-thingy-buildings on them. You come back from being inactive and attack the solar system that is now inside your borders. If even a tiny moon colony with an airport is allowed to remain the neighbor will have sensor coverage over your whole empire capital. Do you just want to ignore the tiny moon colonies now?
This is why I say that a per system siege system would work better than a per world system. In a per system siege system the defender can use the time to construct surface-to-space defenses or demolish valuable structures that shouldn't be abandoned to the enemy. But in a per world siege system you end up having to prevent all construction and demolishing to prevent exploits, not to mention the invulnerable surface-to-space defenses firing at the sieging ship during the siege or other weirdness.
Also, one of the main issues I have with the super-shield-thingy-building is the fact that it is a building. Something a newbie player might either be unable to construct because they lack special resources like cryozine, or they simply don't know that they should build one.