Prerelease 3.153 (More Knowledge Per Planet, Rebalancement Galore, Perf+)

[Ktoff]

Speaking of Dreads... How do you take them out?

In general it is very hard to estimate what is good against starships. usually fighters, but  the dreadnaught is supposed to be good against fighters too. I tend to just throw everything at it when one comes to my planets.

Could maybe the strong-weak numbers for starships be adjusted (or don't they have any, i cannot remember) as in 1 Starship vs. 100(50, 80, 120 whatever) fighters etc...

Each starship will be strong against one fleetship.

[x4000]

This is getting a little suspicious.  I think the devs must actually be playing the game from time to time rather than developing like they should....

 

I play about 6 hours most weeks, or sometimes only 3, not counting "loading it up to test" times.  Keith is more stretched for time than me in that regard, though.

[x4000]

Speaking of Dreads... How do you take them out?

In general it is very hard to estimate what is good against starships. usually fighters, but  the dreadnaught is supposed to be good against fighters too. I tend to just throw everything at it when one comes to my planets.

Could maybe the strong-weak numbers for starships be adjusted (or don't they have any, i cannot remember) as in 1 Starship vs. 100(50, 80, 120 whatever) fighters etc...

Each starship will be strong against one fleetship.

That's a much more complex thing than you might imagine, unfortunately.  And dreads don't have a particular weakness, to my recollection.  As in, when it comes to fleet ships they aren't overly strong or weak against most of it, just a big blog will take them out.  That makes them pretty weak to mostly any mix of fleet ships, but they are excellent at hitting stuff from far range, and especially forcefields and starships in that regard.

[danando]

this game is much harder now thank you !!!

[x4000]

You bet. 

[x4000]

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