Hi!

Update 1.6: off-type defense bug finaly killed. Off-type defenses slightly improved.

Update 1.7: unknown, not out yet.


The way the combat works in DA now seems to be flaved. There are two extremes the AI can't properly cope with:

1) Put on a single ship enough defenses to block all attack from your opponent's fleet and your ship becomes virtually invincible. Works until the late game.

2) When you can't match the attack, you throw all defenses out of your main warship, fill it with only best weapons and one-two engines, never put them in fleet, and go on the rampage again.

The bigger the hull, the better results you'll get in both cases.

BR, Iztok

Hi!

Off-type defenses never depleted in combat. To some extent they were actually better than on-type defenses.


Same genaral strategy that was in almost every 4x game. Kiss-up the strong, conquer the weak, undermine whomever you can, make them fight wars, so you're free to conquer weaker and/or losers.


Tne new one has too many exploits and unlogical consequences. I'd rather see the old one coming back, with some small improvement with defense rolls. Like: better defenses should roll from 1, or 2 to its max value, so a ship with 20 ultimate armors would roll from 40-200, not from 0-200, when it is attacked. Well, just my wish.

BR, Iztok