Varied questions: mines, sats, experience

[mottlee]

Originally posted by Gandalph:
I am designing a Psychic race now that uses sat's with allegiance subverters at warp points. Imagine coming through a warp point and staring 30 allegiance subverters in the face at point blank range!

That would be scarry! unless they use MC's then WM-3 will kick butt too!

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by mac5732:
I know its been discussed before, but it would be nice if you could place your sats in Groups in any of the 4 cornors of your planet instead of always lumped together in l location that you don't have a choice over.. same with bases, in my opinion only..

just some ideas mac

Yep, there's a "Combat Satellite Group Amount" control in settings.txt and it does nothing. Why? If sats were grouped into smaller bunches and scattered around they'd be far more effective than all being bunched in one place.

[Lupusman]

"So, someone please explain me why should one bother to build 20 sats when he can build 3 battlestations of much greater stopping power?"

Well, if you are playing against a psychic race, it only takes one shot (maybe two if you include a virus) by the subverter, and your base has just become your enemy.