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Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire?

Tue, 23 December 2008 09:28

skoormit

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magic9mushroom wrote on Mon, 22 December 2008 23:45

No, it's always made for offense. Basically, because defense doesn't work unless you control an entire star system. Think of it this way. Your front has multiple planets on it. If you put your entire fleet on one of those planets, they scout, and attack somewhere else, killing half your planets before you can bring them to battle. If you attempt to avoid this by splitting your fleet, then they just pool their fleet and kill one of your fleet portions, after which they have a stronger fleet than you and you're screwed anyway. Hence, you can't blockade effectively, and you can't do a Mahan strategy because you can't bring someone to battle without their consent (Forewarning or equivalent tech). So, the game forces everyone to play a Mao strategy, and spread their operations out as much as possible, to try to kill your opponent faster than he kills you. It's basically like Stars! with everyone playing AR. Less of a problem at faster speeds, simply because it's actually possible to save planets.

Do planetary defenses (guns and hangars) have no effect at all?

What we need's a few good taters.

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		Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: beanspoon on Mon, 07 July 2008 04:29
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: Mynd on Wed, 09 July 2008 01:45
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		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: beanspoon on Fri, 11 July 2008 03:54
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		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: beanspoon on Sat, 12 July 2008 12:59
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		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 13 December 2008 02:46
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: neilhoward on Sun, 14 December 2008 23:20
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: skoormit on Fri, 19 December 2008 10:27
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 20 December 2008 00:57
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: gible on Sun, 21 December 2008 00:20
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: skoormit on Sun, 21 December 2008 11:47
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 22 December 2008 04:58
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: skoormit on Mon, 22 December 2008 09:28
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 23 December 2008 00:45
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: skoormit on Tue, 23 December 2008 09:28
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 23 December 2008 13:12
		Re: Anyone played Sins of a Solar Empire? By: DaYng1 on Wed, 25 February 2009 18:23
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