You're probably talking about the Novalith cannon super weapon. It can do lots of damage and hurts your economy, but you can keep your planets if you have a starbase in orbit with the Axillary Government upgrade (or an equvivelent upgrade for nonTEC factions). As soon as you get the alert that a TEC player is building a super weapon, stop everything you're building and start building starbases on your important planets with this upgrade.

I'm tired of these things, to be honest. I was just playing a game vs a single AI in Diplomacy on Orion's Belt. The AI out-expanded me by throwing pirate missions at me. Every two minutes I was defending myself from pirates. On top of that, I was getting hit by long range guns several times a minute. This was a Normal AI.

I guess that going against two or three is easier because they're fighting one another--not just you.

Auxiliary government keeps you from losing the planet, but there really need to be more counters to the population damage.  In particular the Advent rebels need something as novaliths can fairly easily diffuse Wail of the Fallen, which is arguably the rebel advent's single strongest and most game-changing technology.

Even for everyone else, novaliths can fairly easily and quickly cut the income of high economy worlds dramatically, really putting the hurt on the target's economy.  And there's not a damn thing the other player can really do to prevent this.  Oh they could attack sure, but fighting the TEC loyals on home ground sounds like a rather dangerous proposition, especially for the Advent who has no real answer to disruption matrix on the TLT even on neutral ground.

Keep scouting and taking out the research stations.  They can't build them if they lose their tech.  You can throw SWAT teams at them with anti-fighter, shield restore and torpedo ships.  Later in the game it's kind of fun to see how small a SWAT team it takes to achieve your goals.  Sometimes comp-stomping is too predictable but you can put artificial limits on yourself that make it an interesting problem.   If that fails send in the Borg!     (Sacrifice of Angels Mod is awesome!!!)

Ok Thanks for the answers.

I really think now that the game it way to hard for new players.

I did all the games vs. a easy AI. I could already build starbases and in the last game I had already two at my border systems but I haven’t researched the Auxiliary government. I already had some shield generators around the planet but this doesn’t helps at all.

How cheap are these Novalith canons? And how it the ai able to fire constantly these thing on my planets??

In the first to games I was completely busy with holding of the pirates. In my last game I was so happy that I could block the pirates in one system but this costs me nearly every resource in my empire.

I was also able to hold off the ai. I thought now I got it! And then the ai was shooting me down with this Novalith cannons!

This is really frustrating! And remember I'm playing vs. a easy ai!

As I read RedDwarf999's post I was wondering. I'm just able to build one big ship and some frigs at the beginning but I had never enough ships to do some damage to my opponent. I build some scout frigs to see what the ai is doing but the frig never got through one enemy system in one piece.

It would be nice to have a better tutorial how all the pieces play together and what’s important to research.

Also an optical feedback of the game events would be nice because I'm not playing all the time with audio and the tutorial doesn't tell me to listing during the game.

Ok, I will give it a new try and start to build starbases at the beginning...

However I like the community here. no posts how bad I am only helpful posts!

Thanks allot!

Sounds interesting. Would be nice if you could update it for the recent beta.

I do agree with Marsujenherra, Add a counter weapon for the Super Weapon, like the Anti-Nuke in Supreme Commander, so for instance be able to build only (1) 'Anti-Superweapon' on only one planet were you have to pay for it to shoot 'at a cost of credits', give the player some MM (Micro-Management) to do, so upon an enemy shooting his SuperWeapon at you, you select your 'Anti-Superweapon' and click 'Intercept Superweapon' or something. Ofcourse give it a cooldown so you can't spam it.

Just a suggestion but we need something to stop this Superweapon spam that the AI more or less does every match.

'Coming from a 10 player match with that annoying 'A powerfull surge has been detected' getting spammed every 2-3 minutes.'

not really.  Auxiliary government can be used to make the planet damage not an issue.  The bigger issue is the unavoidable population damage & economy debuff gutting the economy of that world.

And the planets you're least likely to get auxiliary government on(small worlds such as asteroids & moons) can't upgrade their health above 2500, meaning that hardened cities will do nothing to save them from the Novalith cannon's 3500 damage(hardened cities would have to mitigate by about 30% reduction to save them).

In fact for the advent the issue primarily IS that hardened cities doesn't from any real sort of counter.  At least the TEC have shield generators which can protect against a single novalith shot fairly well.  The Vasari Loyalists will likely have the best counter(they can move income & population to their capital ships and end up abandoning worls anyway), but I suspect the vasari Rebels will have as much trouble mitigating novaliths as the advent.

@GeoFan77 Thanks I will test it.

One thought, I think it would help if you would need some kind of a scout as a target painter for some time and only after some time (eg. 2mins) you can fire the novalith at the planet. So you may have a Chance to hide a Scout in the System when it’s not that advanced or you can use it during an attack with your fleet. This would make the use of the novalith much harder. And it would make the gun not completely useless when you have anti novalith systems.

Is there any hope that the devs will listen??