Things I Noticed This Weekend

[keith.lamothe]

That's the more specific version of my statement, yes

That particular balance issue is fixed for 3.181, though.  If they go uberswarm on you in that, I want to know about it

[Diazo]

Oh, for sure.

I'm actually having way too much fun getting horrendously squished first by the hybrids and now by the swarmers.

Looking forward to what will squish me next. 

D.

[keith.lamothe]

Well, there's the Warp Jumper for a hard AI, and the preservation wardens for a minor faction (they're pretty light at first, but could get pretty tough if you get like 200-300 extractors, of course then you have the resources to fight them).  There's also a new easy and a new moderate AI but I don't think I broke them as much balance wise, though the moderate one (Neinzul Youngster) is likely to launch 800+ ship waves at you on double frequency.  So if you aren't used to handling youngling ships it could be interesting

The roaming enclave minor faction is also capable of making things interesting, but it's more of a balanced one because some of them ally with you.

[Frozen Critical]

Agreed with OP , Turrets Should be able to Shoot at Astro Trains , or Every single Astro train that Comes By is Basically a "Screw you" package

The roaming enclave minor faction is also capable of making things interesting, but it's more of a balanced one because some of them ally with you.

Meetthe500codeoflinesdoneforaminorfractionthatdoesnothingmuchthenshootshit

[Arcain_One]

The issue with having the turrets auto-attack is that they then might be stuck reloading when a more destructible threat comes through.  With most turrets this isn't a huge deal since the reload time isn't that long, but with lightning turrets or snipers or whatnot it can be a pain.

This sounds like a command node option/fix, or having only the fast turrets attack, or both

I find if i use a couple thousand ships I can knock off a few percentages (up to 40% one time), but this cuts back on offensive ventures and takes hours to get many trains killed even in a system with lots of train traffic

[RCIX]

Agreed with OP , Turrets Should be able to Shoot at Astro Trains , or Every single Astro train that Comes By is Basically a "Screw you" package

Counter-Dark Matter turrets are 1k knowledge for a huge protection range