It does effect them greatly. Enough to give you the edge.

Yes he will counter with aux gov. However, a technique you can use is to not build any novas even once it's researched until you save up to buy a whole slam of them. He will lose lots of planets before he can get aux govs up everywhere.

They should have more limited range =P.

Maby 2-4 Gravity well distance.

That way u can fortify your front line regions to survive attacks instead of having to rienforce everything.

It would also make them possible to eliminate so once u discover where they are and they ar elocated lets say 3 grav wells from the front line it would be possible to just run through and take down the Super weapon and then fall back again.

Giving them a distance like that would actually make them balanced and more "fun".

Instead of them being able to hit anything anywhere anytime across the entire map.

Alot of the time the Novaliths hitting u are not even in the same startsystem so ur ability to take it out is very limited.

Would it be possible to modd it to have a range? or is it inpossible.

They are. There are a lot of mods out there that deal with this issue. Instead of turning into ion cannons, there is a mod that has been posted that removes the research for the superweapons if you just want them gone.

Matt had a good point I've wondered about, why superweapons can reach anywhere instead of being limited to a single star system. If it was limited it would offer some protection on a large map, and limit Vasari movements more in a multi-star system.

Any mods for this?

yes please limit there range and make them more useless /faceplam

You can already find them once they active the weapon you get a warning and they r easy to destroy  with a dozen scouts with explosive charge and the phase jump immunity upgrade.

Again the range limit would make them even more useless and and more boring and fun for me was the superweapon spam and with the limit in place now there aint no spam anymore