Will there be super weapons that the player can research and construct to destroy his enemies? Like something really powerful for the end/late game?

And if not do you think it might be included later in an expansion pack, or at least be created my modders?

I personally love the idea of building my very own death star, or customizing some kind of a super star destoryer type doom ship with the ship editor.

Also, how large can you make ships anyways? I know the humans use pre-set hull types but I heard that one of the alien races actually builds its ships like legos and doesn't use pre-build hulls.

Anyone?

AFAIK, the Human have be build "Hulls" that you can add stuff too, like lego. But there are only so many module slots.

Same goes (to the best of my knowlage) to the Alien ships.

As for super weapons (doom stars).... Dunner. Guess Novacore will have to keeps some things back for the marketing campaign in the coming month.

Sorry, no planet destroying superweapons in this game. At least not for now.

Yes there is advanced weaponary and very big ships and structures (space stations FTW!) for the late/endgame. But you will not be able to destroy a planet. Generally, we do not want one single giant ship that rules out all the others once you gathered enough resources to build it. All ships are important and you will only be successfull with a constantly modernized, heterogeneous fleet.

When it comes to ship building, you are both right. The humans use basic hulls to which they attach various modules (big/medium/small civilian/military/scientific) which then in turn hold the components (weapons, shields, engines, etc.). The X'or have no pre-defined basic hulls, they cling their modules together in ever new ways to build unique ships. The rest of their ship building is the same as the humans. The Athrox in turn form biological ships. The use a "head" as a starting point, to which organ-modules are attached, finalized by a tailpiece that holds the propelling "engine" so to say. Again, the way components are put onto the ship is the same.

(12-06-2012 09:57 PM)Kalypsochris Wrote:  When it comes to ship building, you are both right. The humans use basic hulls to which they attach various modules (big/medium/small civilian/military/scientific) which then in turn hold the components (weapons, shields, engines, etc.). The X'or have no pre-defined basic hulls, they cling their modules together in ever new ways to build unique ships. The rest of their ship building is the same as the humans. The Athrox in turn form biological ships. The use a "head" as a starting point, to which organ-modules are attached, finalized by a tailpiece that holds the propelling "engine" so to say. Again, the way components are put onto the ship is the same.

This sounds really interesting..... I like that the way that each race works is different in more than just a superficial way.
I'm getting more excited about this game.

(12-06-2012 09:57 PM)Kalypsochris Wrote:  Sorry, no planet destroying superweapons in this game. At least not for now.

So it might be added later via expansion pack?

Can't say anything about that. Right now, we are focusing our efforts on delivering a kick-ass main game! :-)

Gah. No superweapons please! If there are, then we at least need an option to disable them.

I honestly do not understand the need for these things.
Superweapons like this always ends up being overpowered and unrealistic.

In games like these I actually prefer to invade and conquer my enemy.
It might be fun for you to be able to use it, but try to turn it around.
Would you find it equally fun if you were on the receiving end of this?
You may find it fun for a while, but I dont think you would find it as fun should the AI, or other players in multiplayer, do it to you in the long run.

I for one are very happy to hear that these things are not in the game.

Superweapons are a nice end game tech for clearing up late game tedium.

Well, yes I believe that superweapons are fairly hard to balance, especially if you want to have unique superweapons for each faction. So for now we are focusing on balancing the units that are now in the game.