Um...Aries_37 wrote:
OMG the game has a 3rd axis, the z axis. If you hold the D key you can position units and structures around in the 3rd axis
(you may need to map the d key in control options if this doesn't work for you)
Not sure if this has any gameplay consequences but imagine if you could be out of range of turrets because of z axis placement
Yes I know. Point is did you know this game had it? Someone earlier in the thread said battles were in 2D, now we know otherwiseunnamednewbie13 wrote:
Um...Aries_37 wrote:
OMG the game has a 3rd axis, the z axis. If you hold the D key you can position units and structures around in the 3rd axis
(you may need to map the d key in control options if this doesn't work for you)
Not sure if this has any gameplay consequences but imagine if you could be out of range of turrets because of z axis placement
Star Trek Armada had that. Heck, Ascendancy had that.
Tbh, sometimes your ships themselves maneuver in the Z-axis, you just can't move them like that (though apparently now you can).Aries_37 wrote:
Yes I know. Point is did you know this game had it? Someone earlier in the thread said battles were in 2D, now we know otherwiseunnamednewbie13 wrote:
Um...Aries_37 wrote:
OMG the game has a 3rd axis, the z axis. If you hold the D key you can position units and structures around in the 3rd axis
(you may need to map the d key in control options if this doesn't work for you)
Not sure if this has any gameplay consequences but imagine if you could be out of range of turrets because of z axis placement
Star Trek Armada had that. Heck, Ascendancy had that.
Sounds like my first 3-4 single player games. Was absolutely clueless. Focused (a bit too much) on Research; became the number 1 Empire for research advancement, but ended up only having 3 planets... which were all soon trumped by various foes and pirate raids. I was poor, broke, out of resources... yet somehow highly developed. The 3 planets I owned could produce every technology/type of fighter, yet I just couldn't muster the Metal/Crystal/Credit to produce a large enough fleet to expand anywhere. Very frustrating striking a balance between rapid-expansion (using scouts and light frigates etc. to populate and take as many areas as you can early in the game before other enemies get there), and thorough development (becoming advanced enough to trump your enemies technologically and fleet-wise).RDMC wrote:
I have no clue whatsoever what I am doing. I am now defending my home planet & some asteroid rock, I had captured a 2nd planet but my forces were overrun
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And minus the monthly subscription!_j5689_ wrote:
Looks a lot like Eve Online, except the planets are actually good for way more than just their moons.
To be honest Eve got very boring quickly, considering you need to wait in real time for skills(seriously you have to wait days, not like 6 hours of grinding, nothing you can really do), but it was intresting, but I refuse to pay for it.cowami wrote:
And minus the monthly subscription!_j5689_ wrote:
Looks a lot like Eve Online, except the planets are actually good for way more than just their moons.
(Though I still want to try EVE)
Cobalt Light Frigate/Krosov Siege Frigate/Kodiak Heavy Cruiser =/= Capital shipsUndetected_Killer wrote:
Shit guise, I need some help. For some reason, about 2 minutes into the game, I sent out a scout and found a planet that had 2 capital ships. Two. In Two minutes. How is that even possible? Should I not spend so much on research or summat?
lulz qftcowami wrote:
Cobalt Light Frigate/Krosov Siege Frigate/Kodiak Heavy Cruiser =/= Capital shipsUndetected_Killer wrote:
Shit guise, I need some help. For some reason, about 2 minutes into the game, I sent out a scout and found a planet that had 2 capital ships. Two. In Two minutes. How is that even possible? Should I not spend so much on research or summat?
Likly Pirates, pirates will be on most of the planets you'll find scattered around you, doesnt take much more then your own capital ship and afew supporting ships to smash them and take the planet.Undetected_Killer wrote:
Shit guise, I need some help. For some reason, about 2 minutes into the game, I sent out a scout and found a planet that had 2 capital ships. Two. In Two minutes. How is that even possible? Should I not spend so much on research or summat?
That's my technique also .Darkhelmet wrote:
I also tend to waste money on raising the bounty on my opponents so that they repeatedly get hit with pirate raids, heheheeh.
See, I own most of the planets around the pirate base. Since I have massive amounts of credits, I just put a bounty on my enemy to provoke the pirate attack. However, since the shortest route to their planets is right through two of my systems (which just happen to have 4 capital ships stationed between them ), I get lotsa of free experience, without them focusing their attack on me (they are just passing through, after all).Uzique wrote:
That's my technique also .Darkhelmet wrote:
I also tend to waste money on raising the bounty on my opponents so that they repeatedly get hit with pirate raids, heheheeh.
Mainly because whenever the pirates do choose to nicely ransack one of my asteroids / planets, they always seem to arrive in such formidable numbers. Never have I been able to realistically fend them off with the immediate military power and resources I have available. If I construct or send a large fleet from another area of the galaxy... it's always far too late for my poor little planet .