Arioch wrote:Currently the Marauders' fleets scale to rather silly proportions. This will be capped at some point; it doesn't make sense that pirates have the largest fleet in the galaxy.
It really doesn't, because at that point, you're not pirates, you're an evil empire. I'm gonna take these guys down, but holy crap, they're gonna be tough.
Marauders use the same hulls that the playable Gremak do, so you can build anything they can build.
Seriously? The Gremak are meant to have super-OP battleships, then, and any endgame fight against them is intentionally meant to be a war of attrition? They get
seven heavy slots. I get... Two heavy slots. The relatively larger number of turrets I have is basically irrelevant, if all of those heavy slots are full of the single most powerful
and longest-ranged regular weapon in the game, since my ships will be evaporating as they're trying to close to bring their Force Lances to bear. (The missile launchers are
completely irrelevant, since point defenses completely shred them, and one or two getting through doesn't really matter since they don't do properly BOOM types of damage.)
Endgame combat is basically dominated by how many Railguns each side can bring to bear, hence my plan to hit the pirates with Liberty Stars.
Formation configuration would be a significant bit of work (needing a new UI), so it's not coming any time very soon.
I figured, I was just wondering if it was on the roadmap.
We will add an option to auto-send transports to the pool on construction.
Glad to hear it.
I believe you can refit an Outpost if you later set up a colony on that planet. There's not currently much else to do with them.
So... When are Gas Giants going to be colonizable? I want my aerostats. Anywhere to shove some more taxpaying bodies.
[e] Also, what are Viscids? Is there anything I can do with them, or should I have just bombed every living thing on this planet to dust to get rid of them before I took the planet over?
[e2] I should probably clarify, with the outpost question: after you get the improved solar panels tech, they don't need their nuclear reactor anymore. You could fit, say, a science lab in that slot.