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[lastverb]

Actually there was some lore about ghost ship - it's is captured by someone (don't remember who) human leviathan sooooooooo many years ago.

edit: oh i misread that

[motorbitch]

there are psy powers. but no other forms of magic. keep in mind that many of the sots technology is on a level that does not work with our limited understanding of the universe - like ftl drives.

the story of the ghost ship indeed is quite interesting. its strongly related to the liir race, and what may become to a liir if that liir becomes very very old and *big*.

[Jopax]

It's also based on the first trailer or intro or whatever, with the first contact with the LoW.

Also their universe is not like ours in terms of physical laws, for one it seems their's isn't relativistic, or something, but basically there is one static reference point at the center of the universe or something.

[Rakonas]

How does one get more cubes in a fleet as the Loa? It's like turn 20 and I have one fleet which is too low on cubes to be anything more than a single command ship, and having him wait in the capital system doesn't replenish cubes.

[Aklyon]

Not having played SotSII due to lack of worknigness on my computer, but have you tried building more ships to get more cubes?

[Teneb]

Not having played SotSII due to lack of worknigness on my computer, but have you tried building more ships to get more cubes?

You can also build the cubes themselves and skip the ship-building.

[Jopax]

That's bugged for now and it's cheaper to build ships than cubes IIRC. You can always repurpose them later if you need to.

[motorbitch]

we just had some infos from the kerberos coders within the ingame chat:

the expotential increase of cube costs for loa armor options is not intended and will undergo balancing with the next patch(es).
for now, just stay away from armor options if you play loa, as just picking polisilicate already will tripple the cubes of a ship.

though this is bad, its not quite as bad as it seems: loa have low armor and high structure, and are immune to critical hits. so armor options are much less usefull with loa ships anyway. on the other hand, the bullwark module (witch increases the structure of a section) will add much more structure points then the bullwarks of other races.

[Shades]

as just picking polisilicate already will tripple the cubes of a ship.

Polysilicate is the one you start with isn't it? If so it certainly doesn't triple the number of cubes on a ship, although the increase is more than I'd like it seemed to be around 10-20%. If armour is weak on loa would it be worth redesigning the initial ships to strip them down you think?

I already shift all their weapons to energy at the start because I find the whole 'needs 1 supply' amusing.

[motorbitch]

yes its the starting armor tech. best strip it all down, designs made in turn one dont require prototyping anyway.

[Shadowgandor]

The reason or "excuse" why I think the Loa can't copy themselves, is because their program grows more and more in size. A new "child" needs to learn and study and gather more information to build its database. Also, growing and learning leads to progression in a race. Having everyone copy each other would bring the development of a race and its technology to a halt, I think.

[10ebbor10]

Necroing this to ask a question.

Anyway, how does one use drone sats for defense. I've build them, but they're not present whenever a system is attacked.

SOTS 2 btw

[ragnar119]

So how is the game now? Is it better than SOTS 1?

[10ebbor10]

I dunno. Never played SOTS 1.

But it's fairly fun, and I experienced no bugs* so far.

*Safe for the meteroid eating sort. Eat plasma missiles, scum.

[forsaken1111]

Necroing this to ask a question.

Anyway, how does one use drone sats for defense. I've build them, but they're not present whenever a system is attacked.

SOTS 2 btw

You have to place them in the system defense screen.