Right click on the movement icon to have your ships phase jump together. When in a phase jump all of your ships move at the same speed.

@Yarlen & Kryo;
I don't know what bothered you so much. Ships have limited range and if you want a bigger range you can add ships that carry fuel. The limitations that this system bears add a strategic element to the game. The "dangers" Yarlen writes about are exactly the strategic elements I like. Getting stranded and destroyed etc. are things that you need to think in advance or bear the consequences. If that's not strategy...

And I'm pretty sure the players would get used to only traveling one system away from their lines very quickly if traveling further meant being stranded or huge upkeep.

That said I'm not at all trying to say that this is the only way a game should go. We've seen all sorts of lines connecting places in games and it is definitely no limitation to fun factor. It's just different. And limiting the range of travel (one way or another) through the lines would be advisable just as well. Steam roller effect works in all ways of travel...

Not at all. What it does is graphically and numerically indicate the range of the fleet, calculating it depending on all factors involved (how many ships in the fleet, their original range and additional fuel-carrying ship). Really, I always knew when I'm sending a fleet with a one-way ticket. Why this wouldn't work in real time is beyond me.

I am sorry for my spelling. Hi I must say your game is super. I have made many ship mods for sots and I just love making and customizing ships in games.

I would love this game so much more if it had the ship customization that Sword of the Stars has or something like it. Just being able to do that for the flagship alone would be just amazing, everyone would be able to give their empire a special flavor. For example, changing the way their flagship looks, making it out of different parts and weapons. Say you want the bridge or something that looks like it on the front or back of your flagship or say you want all the weapons on the front or on the side of your flagship. Something like that would make the game really addictive.

Also, you should add a battle cruiser and destroyer to the game. I love your game, I really do, but when super games are made customization is always left out, but if it's included then the replayability is endless.

1. You already do... just launch some LRM at a vessel preparing to jump out They'll follow it down the phase lane, however long it takes!

2. Yes. Each different trade port will host its "own" set of traders, as will refineries. The question for refineries is when do you have so many refinery ships that the mines can't keep them stocked

Thanks for the thoughts, Paradox. Just wanted to say that #1 is already in the game as of the latest update, though may be tweaked further.  Items 2-4 will be improved as the AI evolves.  Since Ironclad's already established that targetting systems in the future are pretty much perfect, I don't think item 5 or 7 is likely.   I'm with ya on item 10.   Item 11 was answered in another thread already. Fog of War and single-gravity wells may be made possible for modding but are backburner items based on time/feasibility. Item 12 is how it was in Beta 1 (and pre-beta) - you always lost your fighters/bombers during jumps and basically never had them as a result. The current system may not be pretty, but it works (and that's better than pretty at this stage).

Phase Missiles: Probably not for the beta as they are not TEC technology.

Multiple Ports/Refineries per Gravity Well:  I think for refineries it's a matter of diminishing returns, but this is more of a Blair question.

Yes, but convincing you may add new strategic element to Sins 2!!!   

It would be nice to assign trade ships to trade with certain ports to attain maximum distance and maximum profit...

But they produce them for free AFAIK. That's no penalty. Perhaps the craft should cost some money and/or resources.

Yeah, I kinda like the 'Time' cost for strike craft. As it is, there is no need to make strike craft cost resources.

I hope Ironclad introduces more models of strike craft. The more advanced models should take longer to build to simulate the added complexity.

It would make for some interesting fast build/average versus slow build/awesome strike craft confrontations.

Yeah, the more advanced strike craft should take a very long time to build

Yeah, it would be nice if 'in combat replacements' were produced at a slightly slower rate then the game presently is set at. But I see what you mean about needing a decent strike craft build speed outside of combat.

I would like it if a basic fighter squad took 1-2 minutes to build, and advanced fighter squads took more like 3-4 minutes to build. I am assuming here that the advanced fighters statistics would be about twice as powerful as the basic models.

There are a few points I'd like to see included, some of which I know have been said before me (which I won't repost), some which have likely been said before and some which I'd like to add...

- I think the research tree should 'grey-out' fully researched techs. When I look for new techs to research, I have to mouse over each one to ensure that I have researched them fully already or if there is more research required. It would be much easier to do this if the fully researched techs were grayed-out, as with future techs that lack resources or prerequisites.

- I'd quite like to see player-contructable jumps available to research and build. They'd probably require an outrageous number of tactical points (18/20?) and thus could only be built on certain 'worlds' and then, only if that world didn't use its tactical points on defences. Obviously you'd need to build 2 or more (on different planets) in order to set up a new 'jump'. Also, I think that the construction should be semi-permanent and by this, I mean two things: 1) it should take a great deal of damage to destroy and should not be scuttle-able; 2: If its orbited 'planet' is destroyed or changes allegiance, the jump should remain open and useable (still connected to the original owner's other jumps) for a short period of time (about 5 mins?).

- The ships move very slowly. I am often a little bored while I wait for things to happen, especially in the beginning when I have to wait for resources to trickle in and thus can't spend the extra time building things. I'd quite like an adjustable passage-of-time slider or something more to do while I wait. More research possibilities into things like sub-light engines would also be appreciated (actually, I'd like to see much more research across the board... research is fun).

- Perhaps the allegiance switch problem could be averted if sufficiently large fleets are in orbit around any planets that might switch. Perhaps linking the size of the planet's population with the number of ship slots required for the current fleet in orbit. For instance, a 200 population terran world would need 5 Captial Ships in orbit, until the planet's allegience can be brought back under control.

- The threats from dying nations becomes very irritating. I'd like to see them offering vasselage or something but most importantly, I'd definitely like their threats to stop.

- I'd like to see the pirates stealing resources ('money' in particular) during their 'raids' and I'd like to see them more concerned with escaping with loot than with sacrificing themselves for a little bounty. I'm not sure about them bombing planets either... it doesn't seem very 'piratey'.

- A long time ago, I played a game called "Conquest, Frontier Wars". The game was -in some ways- quite similar to Sins (not as pretty but definitely fun). One thing I did enjoy about the game was its admirals. I'd quite like an option to assign an admiral to my fleets when I make a new one using CTRL#. These admirals could then be given instructions in a seperate menu system allowing the player to set the admiral's general strategy. For example, Fleet 1's admiral could be told to await my instructions but engage enemies if they enter their current gravity well, while Fleet 2's admiral could be assigned to protect his Homeworld and the nearby worlds. If an enemy force is announced to be arriving in a nearby gravity well soon, the admiral could automatically move his forces to defend. An other general point that I'd like admirals to be able to attend to would be target assignments... It's far more efficient for my fleets to target individual ships, killing them one at a time, rather than damaging each enemy ship a little. I can do this target assignment myself of course but I think that the game should do it for me... Fleet admirals could be resonsible for this and for determining which target priority, too.
Additionally, something else that I do when I play but which an 'Admiral' could do instead would be the disengagement of ships when it becomes clear that they are taking too much damage and thus should use their faster engines to move out of range while repairs are performed (and while the other ships -with full shields and hull- deal with the aggressor in safety).

- I'd prefer it if the ships moved a little more spaceship-like rather than aircraft-like... so that they retain momentum until it is offset.

- Lastly (for now), I'd also like to see troop ships, allowing me to capture worlds (particularly so if the empire's race is the same as mine) rather than making me have to destroy them. Something about bombing innocent populations feels a little wrong *sad*.


Other than these points, so far I think the game is looking good and feeling great. I can't wait to see the other races and I hope they will play very differently to each other... I think that this is quite an important thing to consider in an RTS and something that made Starcraft and Warrior Kings:Battles great (maybe no one other than me will have played WK:B but I assure you, it was a great game... lots of fun to play and the 'races' were nicely balanced *sighs*).