Issues

1. Agreed

2. Was designed that way to ease up on CPU usage

3. Not sure if that matters.

4. That is just the graphical thing. In game the missile already hit.

He put it there.

Regarding number 2, i am not saying you are wrong but I would like to see where you heard that, maybe a changlog or something? and for number 3, of course we can all get along without that but it wouldnt be hard for the devs to fix that right up. and I dont know about number four, I have followed the ships being chased by missiles and it seemed that when they caught up with it, they seemed to take alot of damage suddenly, I will go back and look though.

I was hearing some good things in the other forum regarding rebellion. I dont mean to compete with it or anything I just didnt see it, or the much larger populated post below. I went and pasted my thoughts into it from this post to try and fix that. Also would someone tell me how to look and certain categories that I want to look at? I havent used the forum for some time now and I find that the forum interface has been updated.

So one thing I heard was that vasari get a mobile phase gate from their titan (or whatever it will be called)

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/305565

This link should help with that last question.

The ship got damage when the missile is shot but the damage appears on the ship only once the particle effect (the missile) hit the ship. For exemple, if a ship has only 1 health point left and an other ship opens fire on it, it is registered as destroyed by the game before actually being hit. You can check this : the attacking ship will automatically switch target before the missile reach the other ship and destroy it, avoiding the waste of entire missiles salvo or overkill.

The ability to scale the particles the same way you can scale ship, structure, and planet details. Highest, high medium, and low.

There never was a change log for this - strike craft have always passed through other objects.

The task of performing collision detection on all those strike craft is a computationally slow task. One individual fighter or bomber won't take very long to perform a check for, but once you start dealing with hundreds (possibly thousands) of these strike craft, the problem becomes vastly larger through the need to check for each and every single individual craft. A basic understanding of computational complexity will make this extremely obvious.

Yeah, sometimes if your ship is moving away and gets repaired at the same time, the ship won't die at all. 

Nope youre stupid sorry

Select all your carrier cruisers/capital ships.  Go to the strike craft menu (press g).  shift and left click on the fighter or bomber icon to create 5 squads, shift and right click to destory a group of 5.

What I want to see in the new expansion is: Don't mess up the basic chemistry of the game.  Don't mess up what makes it great in the state it is in now.  Don't listen to single player noobs who want you to add silly features that are much better implemented in mods.  You guys already have a winning formula; so don't change the basic formula.  Don't try and outsmart yourselves.  You can add more ships, subraces, more planet types, and more tech trees, but don't do things like remove phase lanes or make ships orbit around planets or add a Z=axis.

Don't make the mistake that Epic Games did with the Unreal Tournament series.  The original Unreal Tournament (UT99) had almost perfect game play, and then Epic Games outsmarted itself.  Epic dramatically changed the feel and chemistry of the game in the disastrous UT 2003 from which the series never really recovered.  All anyone wanted was a bona-fide UT99-2 and Epic failed to deliver.  Don't make Rebellion an Epic Failure.

And Unicorns !!!!

Well, it is the same for defenses in the gravity well, isn't it? Once built they are fixed and the same could happen.

While having defenses on a planet would allow you to have some defenses when an attack happen if you did not take the time to build platforms everywhere around the gravity well if someone comes too soon to attack that precise planet. It would just be some kind of planet upgrades or research, and for the effect, nothing fancy, only some shoot directed at the attacking fleet. Of course it can't be too weak or too powerful either and the range would be around the gravity well or 3/4 or half way to be still able to bombard the planet from a safe distance without losing your fleet. I think it could force some new strategies too.

@Dirty Sanchez: Is it possible that some poeple don't know about Sins ? I mean I've seen lots of ads on some website for SOASE and it got a pretty amazing score too. If poeple are not interested in Sins, it's because those kind of players probably don't like the Space feature or the 4X aspect of the game and the fact that takes more time to finish a map of SOASE rather than a map of SC2.

Else I agree with you, I really like Sins that way, some more feature would be nice but if it just stay this way with additional content in Rebellion, I won't mind at all.

1. While said defenses are fixed, they are also down in the extreme clutter of a planetary surface. Unless it's on, like, Mars or something where there's not a whole lot there and everything is likely to be concentrated in a few hab domes.

2. Since said defenses are down in the extreme clutter of a planetary surface, it is insanely difficult to actually find them to blow them up. Furthermore, since said defenses are on a planet, they intrinsically have much greater firepower and durability than your spaceships ever could. A laser can use the bedrock it's built on as a heatsink, and missile launchers are far easier to supply on a planet's surface than from space, even with space-based manufacturing.

3. In the same way that you can see return fire stupidly long durations of time beforehand, so can New York see your shots from Pluto. This also means they have stupidly long times to shoot down or intercept said ordnance, thus making it a moot point that you can attack from the relative safety of Pluto.

Also keep in mind, if the forces at the near-Sun portion of the Solar System have a giant beamed-power installation, they can use that as a GIANT LAZ0R CANNON!! and then scream "IMAH FIRIN' MAH LAZ0R!1!!" and blow you out of the sky. And you will have to respond with missile weapons, which can be shot down by said beamed-power installation.

4. Even a "lazy drift to the left" isn't going to save you against a kilometers-wide beam of hard radiation. You'll get caught anyway.

So your analysis is a rather flawed one. Yes, surface-to-space defenses are stationary........most of the time. Because if you can build spaceships of tonnage and/or volume comparable to, say, a ballistic missile sub, and put powerful lasers capable of killing surface targets through the dense atmosphere of Earth, then you can put the same lasers into a submarine.

Which can move around for a good while. And submerge into the ocean, where it will be safe from return fire.

Missile silos don't even have to be used; a SCUD could reach an orbital target, and, while it needs a pretty big truck, it still only needs a truck. And a truck is cheaper than a spaceship. By a lot.