Originally by: Akita T

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Edited by: Akita T on 28/02/2008 11:38:51

Originally by: Grimpak

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yesterday I lost nearly an entire fleet and 1 cap ship.

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You mean, you DON'T use mostly capitals in your fleets ?
I usually dedicate most, if not all my resources into the largest cap fleet possible, then fill any holes with a couple of frigs or cruisers... but most of the "support points", resources and everything else is in form of capitals.
Heck, sometimes my whole starter fleet is composed of 2 capitals and nothing else (a battleship, and the colony-able capital).

Usually, I clear out pirate bases with as little as 4 cap ships (if higher level) or up to 6 (if fresh out of the production lines, so relatively low-level).
The easiest to pull this off with is TEC... 2 Dunovs, 1 Akkan, all rest Kol, and watch them burn.

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Originally by: Tek'a Rain

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Originally by: Rawr Cristina

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I'm rather confused as to what the point of having multiple Stars is? They don't seem to actually connect to each other

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You can jump from star to star, even if they lack a "path" between them. Try commanding a scout ship to go to the other star and see for yourself.

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Originally by: Akita T

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Originally by: MalVortex

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Don't play vasari. You'll get addicted to phase stabilizers and never play anything else.

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On single-star maps, true, it's stupid NOT to go V's... you just eliminated the one single weakness they have in their phase stab network (the need to jump at normal speed from a colony near a star to that star, then through the star narrow corridor to the other star, the back at normal speed to a colony near the other star - so instead of one fast jump, you get 2 fast and 2 slow ones, plus the star jump itself).
Ok, sure, it also means that on multi-star games, you can pretty much dominate one solar system quickly and with less forces (and the "free units" you get from returning dark armada is never a bad thing).
Still, like many others have already said too, they're very slow to start with.

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