no, it's simultaneous... I know because I was trying to see all the ships blow up and hear the new sound effect and found i had to watch it several times to do it.

well, they weren't on the front until Quar was about to pop wail... my point was that they should have attacked before. I was kind of confused when they retreated earlier... but anyhow, with another titan on the way, that's just 1 more reason to go on the offensive now while you have a chance.

I think they should add a warning time of four seconds. Put it in the infopanel where it will say "Wail of the Sacrificed is being used". If you zoom out to see all the planets, maybe the planet with Wail can have a purple glow(ping?) around it. This would give the TEC time to react with Armistice. So far the known counters to wail are.

Armistice, Novalith for the TEC. Thats not to unreasonable. And then the other counters are for the Vasari(I only theory Crafted this I have no idea) the Kostura Cannon would allow you to phase jump towards the planet that has the Temple of Communion(assuming it is not connected to another High Pop. world). Also has anyone tested to see how armor/shield mitigation works against Wail.

My idea of protecting a fleet against wail using an Akkan was more of: Your fleet is 2 jumps away from the planet that could wail you, you jump in your Akkan first, the fleet shortly after. Before the fleet gets in you activate armistice and then send your fleet through the well either to attack the enemy planet or to reposition them elsewhere.

let me tell you about this thing they call the inter-net...

Whaaaaaaaat

... As I was saying, it's a network of tubes...

I really don't know ._.

You misunderstood mayal's post.  The 4 second warnign would only be to turn armistice into a valid counter. 

Kostura is already a valid counter, albiet one that requires you to anticipate the danger of Wail.  Kostura can disable the orbital  structures around a planet for 3 minute- that means even if you don't send a fleet you can use it to prevent a planet from Wailing for 3 minutes.  The idea is it's a preventative counter if you plan ahead- not one that would make the opponent sacrifice their population for no benefit because of the 4 second proposed warning.

Also keep in mind that a planet's Wail doesn't damage enemy ships "at ground zero" in the planet's own well(It only damages ships in adjacent wells).  This means Kostura can be used to jump past the threatened area directly to the high pop world which may then be invaded.  Of course this only works if there isn't a second adjacent high population world.

No warnings-i don't get warnings when Novaliths fire on me then why would i want to give enemy fleets the heads up that im going to kill you in so and so seconds. Defeats the whole purpose and wail is not overpowered at all. The only overpowered thing about the advent is my ego towards them thinking they are infact a tier 1 race now as opposed to tier 3 in diplomacy (but playable by pros and people who knew how to play them).

Or, if you are running firefox, install adblock plus and noscript. By doing that you can kill most popups and advertisements and make sure pages like sendspace don't just redirect you to the next adult page.

Mmm ok, so it does 20 damage per population... if u use it at a Terran planet with 300 people: 300x20 = 6000 Damage. That would fuck any low level Titan =D

There's a three second gap between the Red button and the blast, in Ent at least.