I'd love to have them back. That 250% increase doesn't help much.

Why was it nerfed?

In a word... superweapons. Think about trying to take out an enemy superweapon deep in their territory... not fun.

Why not make superweapons only deployable on border worlds. Or like I said, decrease the PJI's health by a significant amount. Honestly, myself, I'd prefer the original PJI over superweapons any day! I mean jumping a dozen siege frigs through my systems and taking out my homeworld is kinda lame (which I hear wont be a problem with the next patch nerfing the siege frigs).

Verx45, I'd even like to have the Beta 4 version back. It just eliminated enemy ships from jumping deeper into your territory, but they could still retreat.

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But I really miss them. lol

I disapprove of phasing tag (sticks tongue out).


Make a counter super weapon that shoots down the super weapon and kills people in phase transit with a bad ass graphic!

I strongly advocate this as well. I also agree that a superweapon is not more important than strategic play with star systems and phase lanes (not even close). A superweapon is not central to the idea of a strategy game. Strategy *is* central to the idea of a strategy game.

It is just silly for star systems and phase lanes to not have a strategic role in a STRATEGY game. Since this is a space strategy game, they should have a CENTRAL strategic role. Otherwise, the game degenerates more into tactical play, and becomes less about strategic play. Phase lane tag is not a strategy, it is a tactic.

Note that I don't consider fleeing ships to be a problem at all. If ships want to run, let them run - that's a viable tactic in any strategy game I am aware of, and real life too. It is also probably a smart thing to do in many situations. The problem is the elimination of strategic use of star systems and phase lanes. The problem is having to defend your entire empire against this tactical idea of taking a few ships and running all over the place playing phase lane tag, harassing your opponent to death since he can't be everywhere at once (with the beta 4 PJI, he didn't have to be). Now, that sort of gameplay mechanic would be fine for some kind of tactical clickfest game (of which there are many on the market), but for a strategy game?

If there are a few people who do enjoy the current game play mechanic (they are in the serious minority on these threads), perhaps there could be an option to remove the rejuvinated PJI from the game altogether in the game setup options, so that games could be played without it. This would give them what they like - a "wide open" map where every system is essentially connected to every other system even if it really isn't. But this may be getting too much away from an easy "tweak" for the devs, and into something thats more like serious work, so maybe not.

See this thread:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=402&aid=175957#1451615

You're also making the Antarok level 6 ability all but useless. All that I really see wanted is people to make invincible fortress worlds that have 100% chance to stop any army.

now there's a good solution

What about that idea or something like it? I think that's a great solution.

Keep effects from stacking, one use depowers them all.

It doesn't innately create such a fortress world, no, but it makes them doable. You can just surround the PJI in turrets and hangers and you never have to worry about any other world beyond that one getting hurt so long as that giant ball of defenses still stands.

Phase inhibitors suck. Double the effect, or shrink their radius and make them stop jumping ENTIRELY. Phase jump tag is just stupid.

Phase inhibitors could be specific to a jump lane. Place one inhibitor in one lane and enemy ships will be slowed when trying to escape anywhere in that lane's area of effect. A player will still have to decide between tactical points available and the right lanes to inhibit...