An excellent and elegant solution Soland. Flak guns and Point Defences are very similar weapons. It is noteworthy that in other strategy games, Space Empire V and Sword of the Stars for example, P oint Defences are used to interdict missiles, fighters, and mines. I am pleased indeed with the imaginative and thoughtful responses to my original post. Together we have given Stardo
Way to go Poppa Wedge. You and Dargoon999 have come up with some innovative and allied ideas. However, your suggestions involve turning the Scout ship into a quasi minesweeper. I agree that this would make the scout ship a more valuable asset, but I do wonder if it would result in mission overload for this ship class. Further, to balance such an increase in versatility, the cost of the Scout ship class would need to be considerably increased to reflect its en
I have placed a post in the Sins of a Solar Empire section of the forum commenting on the possible balancing issues accruing from Mine fields proving to be too powerful. My suggestion to the game designers was the development/provision of Minesweeper class ships.
I have been playing the Entrenchment beta for Sins of a Solar Empire. I waspleased to discover that the add-on changes gameplay very radically in a positive and challenging manner. However, I must add a caveat, the mine field feature is so powerful, that it threatens to unbalance the game. It is exceedingly easy to place mines around a planet thus making it very difficult to both cspture and develop an enemy planet even after destroying all opposing mobile fo
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