Aww I'm really hoping the AI colonization thing can be fixed, that is really annoying.

Yeah, please restrict number of this cannons... I had an AI that made 5 of them. And while I fought 2 others (they seemed all to just fight me, not each other oO) all the 5 cannons shot at me over and over again ^^

An option to shut them off would be nice. Having to mod them out can be an annoyance.

I think super weapons should have an option, the current setup, limit to 1 only and a no super weapon option.

that would cater to everyone as far as super weapons go.

Shut them off is better, not sure if 1 per side is even viable.

The superweapons were limited only to your economy, and tactical cap in Original Sins, and Entrenchment. They were Restricted/Nerfed/Tweaked for Diplomacy, and Rebellion. Now people want yet ANOTHER NERF, or to eliminate them all together. I am for the option to chose whether to use, or disable them. Like the Pirates. It seems to be the only happy medium here.

It should be noted that you need 4 planets for every single superweapon. So 8 planet means 2, 16 planets mean 4 cannons... ect.

If you have multiple AIs teaming up on you with them, you are just out of luck.

Besides the AI cannot use the tremendously powerful Kostura in a meaningfull way..... loosing a few structures to it is meaningless compared to the power of moving an entire fleet anywhere in a solar system within under a minute. But then the AI doesnt do that, only human players do.

So that leaves the Novalith, who is more or less annoying and nothing more and the Deliverance Engine, that can be countered with a bit of culture.

No reason to complain about them. Actually the Novalith is rather weak in MP.

I want a limit to the cannons, was playing a large map...yet I'm basically unable to do ANYTHING because all the Kosturas keep aiming at certain planet...can't research, can't rebuild fleet...structures continuously get destroyed, then newly built ones to replace the destroyed get disabled shortly after. >_>

Novalith can be dealt with easier with a starbase, but the Kostura is flat out annoying when spammed by AI.

not always, I have seen them being devastating and turning the tide..

But in SP having multiple novalith bombing you is a huge setback, fortifying your important worlds prolong the defensive phase with several minutes, maybe even an hour.. You can't really defend every planet at once and the novalith takes away your income..30 minutes no trade from a world can be brutal against harder AI-s, and you need every penny against them to successfully break their lines.

I'm with Major Stress on this one, I like the superweapons but to be given the option to turn them off on games would be fair.

Me too, and based on how easy it is to make a minimod ourselves to remove them from the game it shouldn't be much harder to make an option for toggling them on or off, would solve everyone's problem.

The Reapers from Mass Effect wouldn't have a chance in Sins

/endnerdrage

Also, an option to turn superweapons on and off sounds like the most reasonable option concerning Superweapons. I support it entirely.

I'd rather have a titan on/off switch than a super weapon one honestly. Though we haven't gotten a new toggle switch outside of a new expansion since the pirate switch was added, so I'm not getting my hopes up for either.

I'd also like to support a Titan on/off feature.

That would also be a nice addition. I sometimes find myself going back to play Trinity so I can have a full several hour long game without having to worry about Titans. Enemy Titans as much as my own, because once you get an Eradica, you've pretty much won the game against AI. The Kultorask probably has the same result.

Try level 6 or above Ragnarov, your graph will be completely vertical as that ship can kill full fleets in 1 shot.. (AI fleets)

Difference here is the Eradica was level 1 when it began its slaughter and the entire fleet didn't show up all at once. They just kept pouring in, and then the level 6+ Eradica will basically solo its way to the enemy capital world and win.

Plus, I don't think explosive shot has a large enough radius to actually hit an entire 2000-ish supply fleet unless they're literally all clumped up right on each other?

Granted, I never realized explosive shot with overcharge did so much damage.

That's what happens when playing against ai. It's easy :/

Next to a starbase and with your capital ships removed from the well, Ragnarov can easily gain levels, and level6 ability DOUBLES THE RANGE of explosive shot (besides doubling the damage).. Only carriers and capital ships survive that shot (but not the second ).. And AI always use fleets, so yes,his ships are always clumped.. That's why I never use fleets..

What was the issue with Vorastra and Maw then, if Ragnarov at level 6 does basically the same? 

Anyway, i had finally time and space yesterday to play one full game with my buddy against 2 hard AIs and here are my impressions:

- maybe its just coincidence, but before 1.5 the game used to crash on me, basically once per session, but yesterday, 3 hours game and it ran strong without a hiccup

- finally saw all the planet textures, they are simply brilliant. Especially i like the desert and the volcanic. Just fix the the water glossines on Terran world and its all set.

- The artifact world has a broken UV mapping on the northern hemisphere.

- The AI seems to be easier to play against, at least on Hard. I was under impression it was cheating before, so what was the reason for it to "put money aside" for bigger project like Titans? It did not seem to have money issue before and sure as hell it used to construct Titans like there was no tomorrow - and i think it did actually sooner than now. 

Try killing a Vorastra, tell me if you succeed. And Rangarov has to turn to use the ability, not just jump and use at will.. And if you let a Ragnarov hit level6 you deserve to get defeated, but Vorastra if handled by a medium player (doesn't need high skill to use micro-phasejump well) is never killed, and severuns insta-heal it when it reaches safety.. Vorastra can escape almost any situations while your ragnarov is slow and will die of bomber spam, not like vorastra that could eat carriers and leave the well before the second wave hits it..

Did you ever actually used Vorastra yourself, Turchany? Or were you just always on receiving end of it?

Cause it certainly seems so. The teleporting is not be all and all ability. You still need to turn toward the targets with Vorastra, if you want to "maw" them, the same way you have to do with Ragnarov and its abilities. So no, there is no "use at will". Teleporting helps you to close on your targets, but then again, the Maw has nowhere near the range the abilities of Ragnarov have, right?

Additionally, you say it just takes a medium player to use Vorastra succesfully...cause using properly the likes of Eradica/Kultorask with their AoE abilities, which bomb everything around without a need to turn or aim at all, is apparently fucking difficult and rocket science.

Noone talked about the other titans (Eradica, Kultorask), they certainly need less micro to be efficient, only need to be close to many ships, never said it was a brain operation level thing..

I never played Vasari online, so much challenge winning with them.. From my experience (what I saw in skilled multiplayer team matches) Vasari factions have (had? I don't play online anymore due to lack of interest and fun) brutal advantage and many times a medium player could cause heavy difficulties to higher level players, so I think Vasari needs less skill, and if played by someone skilled like in the games where I got defeated by Vasari Loyalist... Same skill level, the one using Vasari wins. Someone pro having VL, and no matter how many fronts you have won he will be unstoppable and extremely hard to corner, and have fun staying in the game and not getting minidump for hours... I was able to kill Vorastra sometimes but only with brutal advantage in numbers and firepower, with the same level fleet it is almost impossible..

Maw is easier to use in my opinion than ragnarov explosive shot. When your ship is able to jump from the edge of the grav well to almost anywhere, positioning is a small task if the other one is not looking for, to say 2-3 seconds, and boom your carriers/frigates are all gone (before the hard nerf of Maw of course). If you get in the back of the ragnarov, that ship is basically useless if you manage to stay out of the arc of the main gun (not a hard task), but Vorastra could cause heavy damage in very small time (and with some luck).

I have never really seen level6+ Ragnarov in skilled matches, only when several titans were already deployed and we were making a breakthrough, but I have seen Vorastra reaching lev6 many times because of it's extreme durability and instajumping.. Add Vasari fleet superiority and you will have almost free XP to feed your vorastra to level6, and good luck killing that jumping hell.

Did not have to be online. Did you at least try using the Maw against AI?

And why should we not take other titans into discussion. You gotta take the holistic approach here, Vorastra and Ragnarov are not the only Titans in the game. And even if Maw was easier to use than Scattershot - depends IMHO on the fact, whether it fires the moment you press the button or not, as this is actually the biggest weakness of the Maw - there are still other titans and their abilities, which you have to take into consideration.

BTW i doubt i ever killed more than 40 targets with the Maw at once anyway. Now 30 is the cap, which not that big of a difference. Do you think the capping is actually going to make a difference? Are carrier fleets, which are apparently main target for the Maw, usually way bigger than 30?

Yes I tried Maw, I play every faction in singleplayer, but online I can't play Vasari.. Not the faction of my highest skill level. I did not have difficulties most of the times deciding where to jump and use the maw immediately, well I guess it's different when you play against humans, never tried it, hate playing vasari against humans.

Scattershot? I was talking about explosive shot.. I always wondered why people like that, I never use that and still able to do huge damage, doesn't scattershot increase mitigation level before explosive shot hits? Is it still useful to do, isn't a single explosive shot enough? and after this you can fire your scatter to weaken hard targets?

Capping isnt 15--30 per level? I guess 15 will make difference if you have 30 carriers at one place unfortunately and don't realize in time..

We can bring in other titans if you want, but the topic is the comparison of the lev6 Ragnarov and lev6 Vorastra.