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[quote who="Sethai" reply="24" id="2328522"] Quoting BigJKU, reply 22 Sorry but any game that has fighters able to just fly with impunity around capital ships is basically making an artificial distinction. If you limit the weapons to just a handful of super-heavy weapons it would make sense but there is no logical reason why a large ship could not also carry anti-fighter weapons. All men of war built since the 1920's have had some level of a

I think it would be fair to say the AI is not terribly bright. Even on the highest difficulty levels I tend to find they never concentrate their forces and spend a huge portion of their military budget on Defender type ships regardless of the race. Those ships, while sometimes formidable, pretty much just sit and wait for my concentrated fleets to come in and wipe them out a couple at a time. If I am have enough paitence I can attack a few worlds, go rest my units to repair

1. I would keep maint. cost because it is the only way to control overall fleet size in the later stages of games. 2. I am indifferent about how taxation is handled. I have played Rome TW and this game a bunch. Both have their pluses and minuses. I tend to just never really jack my taxes to the point that I am right on the edge each turn of making everyone mad. 3. I agree that the handling of production should be different to discourage

[quote who="Sethai" reply="19" id="2327464"] Quoting BigJKU, reply 16 The problem with giving fighters an inherent advantage over smaller craft is that it is something that is totally artificial. If a medium hulled ship can carry anti-figther weapons then so could a large ship. It may not be the most efficient way to do things but it could be done if one felt so compelled. I don't intend these advantages to be artifici

I would suggest that the scouting function is simply something that is accomplished automatically. It would be easy enough to code as games with ranged and melee units usually have a setting for ranged units that instructs them to keep their distance and simply keep the enemy within sensor range. Think of it like this. Defensively you have First Fleet assigned to defend say 5 systems. You would designate the concentration areas for your heavy ships but your scouts wo