Unless you are playing Loyalist, this is Tier 8 tech.

Enforced Loyalty and Enduring Devotion, respectively.

That would explain it. lol

In that case, you guys know it's coming, ramp up your techs. When you play monopoly do you whiteout Go to jail?

Or the developers could add an off-switch for superweapons, just like they did for pirates in the very early stages of Sins.

Throwing up a starbase at every planet you want to not be destroyed by a Novalith is an expensive, time consuming, micro heavy, not fun thing to do. It also doesn't protect your economy from having its tax income crushed, which is awfully problematic when you're trying to pay for a boatload of starbases due to said Novaliths.

It's just out of whack with how the other super weapons work and is simply not fun in its present state.

I agree with what you guys are saying but, maybe that's the point. ? If you can't wage war because your income streams are destroyed, you can't defend yourselves when the enemy fleet comes a calling.....

We really cannot say for sure that anything is overpowered until we get the other 2/3rds of the game. The other races will have I'm sure some new techs to balance out said superweapons.

Like I've said previously, the insurgency tech which has fleets coming out of NOWWHERE behind your defenses is more gamey and infuriating than a superweapon you can prepare for, and go out and kill.

Then, how you gonna build 40 starbases when you have 40 planets? Thats 400 supplies gone on something stationary, instead of moving fleets.

???? I assume you mean logistical support which is fleet supply. Starbase's do not use fleet supplies....

Only the starbase constructors take fleet supply (10), and that is temporary.

You can build a few constructors, then order them to build starbases.

While that's in progress, you can re-use the fleet supply (that you've just got back) to build a few more constructors ... assuming you can afford it.

Do starbases consume logistic/tactical slots?

I thought that was just for structures such as labs, turrets etc.

None...

It's a pretty big advantage for the TEC though, given that planetary shields DO offer some protection to your economy as well as protecting the planet from Novalith destruction, and they're considerably less expensive to set up then Starbases are.

Sorry, my bad then. I rarely build starbases as i prefer to play aggressively.

There is this excellent RTS called Act of War: Direct Action. Every faction had own, unique über superweapon and a unique weapon to counter enemy superweapons. The recipe worked being extremenly fun in multiplayer.

I suggest adding a counter-superweapon-weapon to all factions in Rebellion. It eliminates all needs for switching OFF some aspects of game. I also suggest that the counter weapon should be cheaper to build and research than the actual superweapons.

Should do the same with mines and Capital ships.  AI spams them. 

I agree with the Capital Ship spams- im seeing 3 of everythings with minimal frigates. Less so on mines.

However, i cant say ive endured this yet- i played against 3 normals and saw no Titans, superweapons and like one fort. world. If anything im questioning the AI in this, their play style has become very different- ill make a complete post later on my issues.

But ya, both suggestions seem workable- though it could be suggested that the shield generator is the novalith counter. I did find the Novaliths too easily accessible, and a functioning AI might get something from that _._

would it be possible for some one from Stardock to weigh in on this discussion.  I would be interested in what they think of adding a super weapon off, or limited number, switch.  Or, if it is possible, without taking up to much development time.

What if Superweapons just had a credit upkeep cost or required some fleet supply? That way massing them means a a permanent hit to economy or fleet size that becomes more significant the more of them are massed.  Heck, with those sorts of drawbacks, the cost of building a superweapon or research tier could be reduced, making superweapons in general less of a niche tool for one faction and more of something many factions may consider buying one of.

TEC generally has some annoying 'features'.

Both the insurgency strikes, and the novialiths are completely devastating for a fast paced game.

You need a starbase on every, single, planet. And on huge multi-star/planet maps, that's just too much.

If you make sure the player who ows the Novalith Cannons does not have correct intel on your planets beyond the frontlines than you don't have to place starbases there, assuming no scouts will ever reach those planets. Novaliths are only able to target planets thatare recently scouted for some reason (I think it has to do with a change of the planets' ownership).

I support this. I think in the Game Options panel there should just be a "Superweapons on/off" toggle.

Errr.. no. What you've explored is irellevant. Superweapons will just auto-fire at anything.

Play gateway for yourself, only go to the gateway planet and hold that. Then take the adjacent system and spam nova's and see what happens.