Hi,

I already did put that in support ticket. There is no direct counter against spam of super weapons, no matter what race is. They all have bug in autocast and fire on every 30 seconds of so instead of manual 5 minutes...

This is what happens in large map with distant stars:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198028934673/screenshot/541799243354452377?tab=public

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198028934673/screenshot/541799243354475433?tab=public

They do friendly fire because of long distance too. And that kills the game.

+1

Vasari is definitely the best. It loses you planets with every round that's fired at you. Novalith is a pain but hardly the end of the world. If someone has invested that heavily in them then they have a weak fleet. Deliverance Engine is just a joke so let's not even mention it.

It isn't a rumor. Yarlen said it's up for discussion so the possibility is pretty high but this would nerf factions like the TEC loyalists.

Super weapons in general are just annoying and don't add anything to the game. I bought this game for strategy and space tactics, not turtling and building super weapons.

Tried using a planet shield?  Or a starbase with aux government?

I think that Yarlen said that he will be trying to increase the cap to four instead of two.

Ideally, IMO, it'd be a variable you could set prior to the match, just like ship speed, fleet size, etc.  0/2/4/6/Unlimited was suggested in another thread and that sounds good to me.  Perhaps give the TEC Loyalists a research following the Novalith that would allow them to build a few more at the cost of some tax on their income since maintaining a battery of experimental planet-nukes is probably not too dissimilar to maintaining a fleet in friendly territory.

As for the OP, the Novalith is annoying, but far from OP.  The Vasari's Kostura is probably the most powerful, it just has to be used correctly, and you don't want to ever attack a front line world with it.  (Well, I guess you can, but that's a waste of a shot.)  It creates a phase node at the target planet, allowing the user to jump their fleet directly to that planet, let's say your capital planet.  Since you've expanded since then, your main fleet won't be nearby and you'll have to watch in horror as your rear economic worlds fall.  When they get done (or when you redirect forces to kill them), just fire up a phase node via an Antorak, Orky, Phase Gate, or another Kostura shot and the fleet can just jump out, having ravaged your economy.  Novaliths can only take down tax income.  Kosturas and the fleets they allow to invade can take down your trade ports which late-game should constitute most of your income anyways in addition to causing you to not only lose planets to neutrality, but lose them to the enemy.

The Deliverance Engine with a buff that would disable any broadcast centers on the target planet would be immensely powerful by allowing the Advent to attack the enemy within their own unopposed culture which drastically improves the survivability and damage output of an Advent fleet.

How about people just stop crying about them?  The Novalith is easily countered...   It's not overpowered, and I see no reason to change the current system.  It's key to the TEC Loyalists....   If anything, just make a toggle to disable them.  Might even add another to disable Titans too...   <sarcasm on>  They're just so over powered and break the fun and strategy... <sarcasm off> 

To the devs, please don't mess with Superweapons.  Many of us are completely happy with the way they work now.  Each has merit and can be countered with the correct strategy.  If anything is to be changed, the cooldown timer might get a bump.  That would force players to have to divert resources to build more of them in order to do the massive barrages. 

There is a effective counter for the novalith it's called planetary shields or starbases. You guys are just crying OP because you don't see the actual counter and don't realize that the AI needs work and that's all it knows to do atm.

The Vasari superweapon is much more useful. The novalith is iffy and the advent is just useless.

To be honest they should be more expensive, I don't think their overpowered as such, as there are many ways to counter them, whether its offensive or defensive. I sometimes end up getting shot at by them and it is annoying but if your not a turtle you will go kill it, if you are a turtle then you will have aux governments on starbases.

But it is frustrating to go hunting for a large cannon which can be behind 10 plants guarded by multiple fleets, So I think simply increasing the cost all round to field that kind of weapon should be increased. Such as increased research costs, maybe with pre-requisites, other then the number of mili labs, then make it take more tac slots and cost more to build, that way it would be a big investment to get one, you wouldn't be able to spam them until opponents have the strength to go after them and maybe even they should cost resources to fire a round, that way if you want to spam it, its gunna be expensive to do so.

And if you did spam it then your going to be lacking in a fleet or defences good enough to hold back a pissed off enemy. But in my opinion the best thing to do would be to find a balanced mix of what I said, So maybe more expensive research with pre-requisites and then it cost resources to fire a round, followed by a 5 minutes cooldown, maybe more, so it would and can only be used effectively to give you an advantage when attacking a planet.