Stellar Manip Exploit?

[Raging Deadstar]

Two Words then:

Star Destroyer

If your enemy continues to hide in his "rabbit hole" then just detonate the system, it'll be a suprise to him and might just put him on the defensive.

[Alneyan]

Spoon (or anyone else), would you happen to known if *all* storm abilities do not stack, or if it is only the damaging storm that do not? For example, if I have ten "Combat Minus" abilities in the same stack, will they effectively destroy the accuracy of regular weaponry? (With the exception of the Talisman, ramming, boarding and seekers)

[PvK]

The damage can stack, making a very damaging system for some fraction of the ships that enter. I'm not sure about the other abilities. I've used this defense technique in the unmodded game. I usually build a Storm Destroyer too, so it can remove the storm types that I don't want. And, of course, try to combine it with system grav shields and warp manipulation, when possible.

It takes an investment of time and resources to protect a single sector this way. I tend to see it as a feature rather than a bug. It does make a turtling strategy have some chance of success and stalemate, as do other warp manipulation/defense techniques, but only if your opponents give you the time to carry it out.

Players who don't like it can edit Settings.txt to easily remove or drop the amount of damage done by created storms.

PvK

[Spoo]

The combat minus to-hit ability does not stack. I tested it in the simulator.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I've heard the simulater isn't a perfect simulation of combat, although I don't think I've ever seen an exact rundown of why.