Really, if I were an Ares admiral and someone blew up a few communes (killing how many people?), I'd marshall 4 phobos and 7 demios, 10 chasms, and a small fleet of Sandstorms and Tundras. As a Ranx, I'd be disgraced to see that kind of destruction. I'd build new dreadnoughts and fortresses with sla...

I went and numbered some quotes from Aeonic in my second post in this thread (though #5 may have changed Aeonic's original intent) since they were the kind of short, simple problems with easy solutions that I was looking for. In hindsight, probably not the best idea. 5. You can get far enough away t...

I really like a lot of the ideas for improving the AI. I don't know which I'll tackle first (or even if I'll tackle enough issues in 1.0 to make a difference). But here are some principles that I want to follow: My initial goal for this thread was to find the AI faillings that happen only in specia...

[snip]...you can get far enough away that the AI doesn't know what to do about you bombarding their base...[snip] Call this #5 I'd also like to see something added to prevent the AI from approaching stations that will happily blow them away. And #6 #2 will make the AI weaker, not stronger. The more...

Right now the AI is very incompetent in a few situations: 1. Following the player at range. The AI will bunch up. The AI stops being able to hit the player at about 50 ls with a wolfen. However, the player can effectively bombard the pursuing AI. If the AI stayed out of the line of fire of the playe...

I favor short durations and large avaliabillity for field crystals, so more like 800-1500 damage per crystal that a full system. Mayakev launcher requres that you are more maneuverable than your target. When I fought the slicer version that had Mayakev missiles as a Wolfen, it was reletively easy to...

While it only took me ~5 tries to get the ship past the pteravores (whithout clearing them out beforehand), I gleaned that part about kate telling you about the sentinels from the xml. I also put that in my second post about my experiences in heretic, and suggested that it be made more obvious. In a...

I had to look at that twice to realize what you guys were talking about, but yeah.

If all the stations get destroyed, then you need to talk to Kate in order to figure out that you're supposed to go after the sentinels. I'm not sure if this has an effect on how often a sentinel will drop a rom.

You're supposed to equip a bunch of them and see if you can figure out any of them. Try it out! Explore!

2. Loot everything, you increase your cash input greatly this way. Consder other means of getting cash such as freighter escorting and mining. Both are very lucrative for the early game. Turn off your shielding or use inferior equipment (such as kinetic weaponry or monopole shielding) if you are fac...

Really? I always thought it had nothing to do with the player, but rather the fact that someone was mucking around with their device. After all, I don't think anyone landed there before Kate did.

This is important because *each* Huygens contains a heretic research rom. Each research rom is worth a "research point" when taken to Kate. You need three "research points" to shut down the shield. You do not even need to keep the ringers station alive to be able to redeem the roms for research poin...

IIRC, the heretic stations don't have a limit.

What if the star that is supposed to go nova is like Elysium in that it links to all of our star gates? Blow up that star with all of the gates on....perhaps that would work.