(03-26-2022, 04:37 PM)QuakeIV Wrote: At one point you could definitely shoot them, it was years ago however. This is dumb mainly because of how powerful the weapons are,
Been this way since the bug reports I made in universe 5 about this exact issue. It makes no sense that the giant energy weapons on our warships are made useless just because the enemy shovled some dirt on top of their buildings.
But seemingly some people think this is good gameplay or balance or whatever. Go to the thread I linked above and see people's responses.
(03-26-2022, 04:37 PM)QuakeIV Wrote: and now also the offline protection means you need to park a ship in orbit either for eternity or until the dude finally logs. This just to get a chance to shoot the bases, which practically speaking will never happen if the crew refuses to shoot at it (even with a missile weapon that could actually burrow down to it easily as you say).
I assume you can still make craters on the world while the base is under noncombatant protection, so you can park your ship in orbit, fire some missiles to clear dirt from the buried buildings, then leave the ship there once you have confirmed that energy weapons have a clear line-of-sight to all military buildings. That way the ship can easily deal with all the military buildings once the player logs in.
Only issue is then if they have military buildings over over the planet, so you can't have just a single ship in orbit.
(03-26-2022, 04:37 PM)QuakeIV Wrote: Waiting until you are online at the same time does eventually happen but is in my opinion impractical. It’s already dumb that you are stuck with a warship parked in orbit for presumably months if they just never log in again.
You only have to wait as long as the player keeps an active account subscription, but yes. I did say that the noncombatant protection was interesting, but in the long-run it doesn't really solve anything.
This is why I liked the idea of week long solar system sieges instead.
See: (Idea thread) Conquest of Solar Systems