mydogbrandie

I had Orbital Academies on my homeworld. I could have added a policy that would have given me +20% more hit points.... yet all that doesn't add up to much since the base hit points of a Corvette means not much increase no matter what I did. Though I do wish there was some info on how the AI determines how much attack a ship has for a volley so I could compare it to the hit points, though that is obviously limited since the attack loses 20 percent per hex due to the distance modifi

I've just played a couple of games where my fleets were OP, yet I got crushed due to the volley mechanic. What happens is I have a much larger fleet with the best beams and shields (no armor or point defense) and some small fleet gets in range and one at a time, fires missiles at my ships. Each missile takes out a ship, so in one turn, my fleet is left with little or nothing. I sit there watching it get slowly wasted, which is frustrating. My best guess is I've read

Okay, I have an update. I went back a couple of turns and the enemy fleet was three hexes from my homeworld, but I couldn't see it. I even showed it to my son and he couldn't find it. The catch is that the hex and the ships were underneath the "LD" of the HOMEWORLD banner above my homeworld. Tricky rabbit! Had the hex

Interesting. I haven't been tracking the difficulty level where the cloaking problem has been happening, but the last two times were the Genius and Incredible levels. Going forward, I will garrison my homeworld when I get a declaration of war instead of leaving them in space and add a sensor module at the four points of my starbases to increase visibility, but that's only a partial solution. Some better mechanic that shows enemy fleets on the map as opposed to

Several games I've played have ended very badly thanks to a desperately needed rebalance issue. Somewhere between turns 45 and 65, a faction declares war on me. A small number of turns later, it's game over. Out of nowhere, a troop ship hits my homeworld and captures it. I have the homeworld ringed with starbases, so my vision goes a good way out. I have a defense rating on the homeworld that is at least 50 percent higher than any other homeworld. I used to