No. I guess you could try to calculate is based on their attack value. We have been told it would take 3 cruisers to take out a claimed planet so find out how many fighters have an equivalant attack value minus the attack value of the carrier and thats how many you will need.
For a colony with over 100m pop though your going to need equivilant to a few dreads in firepower.
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It looked pretty good to skip offensive initiative and get level two combat instead.Originally Posted by Spartanius
In the new mechanic it actually takes 4 cruisers to one shot the mining colony. In the process you will lose 1 cruiser. 3 vs the mining colony would be dicey.. It could work, but you will probably lose 2 in the best case scenario. Most times you'll die. 4 cruiser do the Goldielocks damage amount.
Fighters do great against big ships. Since they are such a little target it's hard for the big ships guns to target them. Unless it's something that is specifically designed to kill fighters like Destroyers. We took a little of that from EvE. We use to play a frigate corp of mercs in the early days of eve, and a group of 20 of us would lock down Tier 1 & 2 battleships and kill them. Sure a few us might get killed in the process, but it was pretty rare. Even when we did get killed it didn't matter since frigates cost nothing to produce.
Some things to keep in mind.. There is a max object count you can have. Basically anything you put in space counts toward your object count. You have have up to 1000 items. Ships / Orbitals. You can either add shipyards + 10 objects, and there is now a skill in fleet that allows a multiplier to shipyards +10 per rank. So you can get up to 100 objects per shipyard. You don't need the skill though, you could just build shipyards. It's the only item that won't count towards your object count. So having 100 ship yards doesn't mean you only get 900 objects, you still get the 1000.
If you have 1000 objects and 100 shipyards, and you end up losing 10 shipyards, you won't lose any ships, but you can't build anything above 900, till you replace the shipyards you lose (assuming you had no bonuses from skills).
We'll add something to the interface to help you keep track of your object counts.
*Edit due to achieving comprehension of attacking*
So, what are the best trade strategies?
Build up a few core planets, set harvest routes, mine colonies to feed into larger colonies then slowly grow out . . .
Perhaps early detection of other homeworlds will allow a fleet of sappers - harvesters that deplete your neighbour's nearby resources limiting their expansion?
Last edited by adam__moore; 04-14-2011 at 01:25 PM.
You cannot harvest a planet which is not yours, so that won't work. It's an idea though that I'll keep in mind.
I am worried about the sappers strategy on the casual player. This is where players who can put in two hours a day have a distinct advantage over the 20 minutes a day player. I'd like to see the two hour per day player have less power over the casual player.
While there may be some things we could do, there are also limits. If someone doesn't log in until a week after the game starts, they are going to be seriously disadvantaged no matter what we do.
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