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[Sean Mirrsen]

What's planned for SotS2, anyway? I don't think I ever saw the announcement.

[Zai]

What's planned for SotS2, anyway? I don't think I ever saw the announcement.

Check throughout the Kerberos forum. Just quickly off the top of my head: The Suul'Ka/Species Y/Great Masters are a playable race, bringing the total of known races to 7, but there will only be 6 factions (some races are being grouped together, and some will be part of more than one group, splitting these races apart). Dreadnoughts are no longer the biggest class of ships, as there are going to be Leviathan class ships. However, there will still be only 3 main ship classes; Destroyers are being made into Drone-like functionality (Battle Riders), though I'm unaware as to whether or not Drones will still be present.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Interesting. Oh, and btw, what's the thing stated "coming May 28th" on the main site? I thought all expansion packs and "complete editions" were already released?

[Sergius]

Best strategy when defending against basic Von Newman at the beginning: let them eat 2 destroyers.
Cheapest way, seriously. The more of their small drones you destroy, the more they have to spend building more, and the hungrier they get.
If you just hold fire and give them 2 cheap destroyers, they'll go away and won't take resources from your planet either.
Hell, they will ADD a couple of resource points to your system.

[Orb]

Best strategy when defending against basic Von Newman at the beginning: let them eat 2 destroyers.
Cheapest way, seriously. The more of their small drones you destroy, the more they have to spend building more, and the hungrier they get.
If you just hold fire and give them 2 cheap destroyers, they'll go away and won't take resources from your planet either.
Hell, they will ADD a couple of resource points to your system.

Butbutbut...that's no Fun.

[Cajoes]

Best strategy when defending against basic Von Newman at the beginning: let them eat 2 destroyers.
Cheapest way, seriously. The more of their small drones you destroy, the more they have to spend building more, and the hungrier they get.
If you just hold fire and give them 2 cheap destroyers, they'll go away and won't take resources from your planet either.
Hell, they will ADD a couple of resource points to your system.

Butbutbut...that's no Fun.

Except for the fact you don't want to feed the Von Neumanns...

Trust me on this.

[Greiger]

Spoiler: VN Fun (click to show/hide)

I sent my entire Navy (including two of the massive planet busting mass driver dreadnoughts) to fight off the VN construct and I still lost.  Well not so much lost as ran out of time.  I still had ships fighting.  But I ran out of time and it all became moot.

Fortunately I was allies with everybody but the Zuul and Hivers(those gates make me paranoid, so I avoid allying with them) though so the utter destruction of the majority of my military didn't set me back too badly, and it seemed to go away afterward.  I didn't know if my ships had destroyed it during the finale effect or if it only attacks one planet.  That thing was taking massive punishment, though I was losing a ship at a rate of about 1 per second as well.  Even if it didn't take out the planet, I still wouldn't have had much of a military left.

When I attacked the VN homeworld later, I almost crapped my pants when I saw one in orbit.  Fortunately though it was only half built, and my big fixed mount laser cannon dreadnoughts made short work of it.

[forsaken1111]

yeah absolutely the easiest way to stay safe from the VN is to have a few trash ships at your planets for them to eat, or some light defense sats. They will nom them and lose interest.

[Pnx]

On the subject of some HFS.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd just like to point out that I'm pretty sure the peacekeeper is a reference to "the day the earth stood still" since it also makes an excessively loud and obnoxious announcement, ontop of the whole eleminate aggressors thing.

Also I once managed to fight the peacekeeper to a draw by throwing my entire hiver fleet of some 150 cruiser and a bunch of dreadnoughts, I basically managed to take out one of it's instant ship destroying weapons and then fended off all the rest of the attacks, when the battle ended I'd made a dent in it and blown off a fair few of it's turrets. Interestingly this seemed to buy me some peace from the peacekeeper.

[forsaken1111]

Yes it is a reference to that.

And yes it is nearly impossible to kill. It is supposed to be something you avoid until it goes away, not something you fight.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I killed in an autocalc battle using my entire fleet of about 75 fairly advanced ships and an asteroid monitor.

[Pnx]

Did you at least get a research bonus?

[forsaken1111]

IIRC you don't get anything for killing it.

[mattie2009]

My strategy is as follows for any freeform map:

Tech up to max lasers
Tech up to Dreadnoughts
Get shit wrecked by Von Neumann (Like fucking clockwork.) (If it's not VN, it's some other form of SotS HFS.)
Get insanely paranoid and build a military force to end all military forces
Get attacked by alien race
Epic win follows
Get truce made to me because I'm fucking awesome
Deny
Expand like crazy
Locate alien homeworld
Fuck shit up with my dreadnoughts.

Repeat the last 7 steps until EVERYONE ELSE IS DEAD.

[Orb]

My strategy is as follows for any freeform map:

Tech up to max lasers
Tech up to Dreadnoughts
Get shit wrecked by Von Neumann (Like fucking clockwork.) (If it's not VN, it's some other form of SotS HFS.)
Get insanely paranoid and build a military force to end all military forces
Get attacked by alien race
Epic win follows
Get truce made to me because I'm fucking awesome
Deny
Expand like crazy
Locate alien homeworld
Fuck shit up with my dreadnoughts.

Repeat the last 7 steps until EVERYONE ELSE IS DEAD.

A dreadnaught only armed with X-rays destroying entire empires, wow....I got to try that