Eh, personally I'm hoping that they're going to balance them in in the same way Supreme Commander did. If you've played it, you'll know that super weapons are easily countered if you pay attention and keep yourself prepared.

Super weapons are fine.

Aslong as they are balanced.

Even if you can destroy the "administrative personel" and infrastructure on an enemy planet, unless the planet itself is actually blown to bits, it would not be a big deal in the game. The enemy ai would just repopulate and the structures would remain. I would think there would be a long cool down period for such a weapon.

Given how well the game appears to be balanced post patch the canon could be tried and if found not to add to the game could be dropped or tweaked by the developers or "modded out" by players.

yea same ere but i still dont like super weps its better just having ships i like super ships tho that are powerful but dont have an unlimited range and has to risk it self to attack u

As long as the race I am playing as , has the best =p

Of course the game will have super weapons, but they won't have unlimited range.. they shouldn't be able to fire on a different system.

Look at it this way. from what i understand of the game mechanics as they stand, the novalith cannon is not much more than a glorified breaching cannon. it can fire as far as two jumps, which is impressive. but it's not game breaking, and a decent player shouldn't have problems countering it. and as far as C&C3 goes, trust me, if you're turtling and saving up for a superweapon, you'll lose 7/10ths of the time, to a faster more flexible opponent.

lol schem, ur arguing on how to tweak it when all uve seen is a photo

either way, super weapons are IN. can't stand them? get used to disappointment, cause i love them... they give me turtle targets who divert resources from useful techs.

No off-switch! Just balance it out.

As long as balancing it out isn't done by making them really expensive, or limiting it to a single weapon.

As for supcom, I would say the Gattling artillery is the most overpowered, even though the range has been decreased in patches, it's still insta-death.

If there isnt a superweapon button then its just very poor game design/opinion on their part

Agree. The super weapons in C&C always sucked in multi player. Since most of the time they are not defendable hitters. (Only way to defend against them was destroying the corresponding building in the well defended enemy base.

Super weapons in Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander were good, since they were balanced. Against long range cannons you had shields/they were very inaccurate. Against nuclear missiles you had missile defense systems, against Krogoths, T4 units, well they don't have air defense and were very expensive.

Imho if Ironclad goes the same way, against the Novalith Cannon you can build planetary shields, it will be balanced. It just needs a counter then it's imho fine.

It works pretty much that way:  very expensive, slow to recharge, costs resources to fire, etc.