Eh no, you should already see quite a number of post that even with heavy defense it still doesn't help at all.

Like the post I made, 2 Capital Ships and 12 Guass Cannons concentrate at one place, and yes the AI's Seige Frigates park right in the middle of those, yet they almost smoke my planet. A few other posters also state that their heavy defense can not stop these Frigate fast enough.

I wasn't talking in theory. I've done it.

I do agree with you that they shoudl be nerfed but I know what I just wote works.

I wonder if some sort of mitigation could be implemented, perhaps just for planets with the planetary shield researched (similar to how ship shields work). Something to drastically reduce the effectiveness of 10+ siege ships at once.

Perhaps this already is in the game, but if so it isn't very noticeable.

I've played a couple games and the normal AI hasn't really thrown anything at me I couldn't defend. It does play some dirty, dirty tricks though. I've gotten spammed by siege ships that attacked one of my terra worlds with no real defenses, when my fleet confronted them they ran like chickens with their heads cut off, I jumped after them and they all jumped back and nuked my planet again before I could warp back. Gotta give the AI coders props, but I WILL have my revenge. Still, my planet survived and the force of siegers didn't.

Good times. But the mere idea that a race of televangical palm readers could throw me for such a ringer is insulting...hrmph

i could care less about the AI if it makes human vs human multiplayer games unfun.
Also why shouldnt the AI be changed accordingly to prevent any problems?
What we for sure dont need is even more turtling.

Yesterday in my first game the AI attacked one of my planets with 13 Siege and all I had was 5 missile turrets, 4 frigates got blow to pieces before even reaching my planet and in the midst of the rest retreating 2 more died. It only took 2 volleys for each frigate to explode.

I like the idea of making it so Siege Frigates have low HP but normal shield which need to be lowered when firing. Seems like the best fix in my opinion.

Exactly...

boy, play against a decent player and i want to see how scouting helps u preventing siege frig runs.
Also i would like to see how ppl want to defend all their planets with mass stational defence and still built as much ships as ur opponent.
Its the same issue as in the beta, no its even worse because phase disruptors dont prevent phase jumps anymore (so no choke points and no way to prevent siege frig runs deep into ur territory).
The thing is, most agreed in the beta that siege frigs are too strong and they were supposed to be nerfed but whatever "nerfing" they got it was at least offset by the phase disruptor change and without those they are simply to strong because u need at pretty much all planets good defence.
No good player will do this against a decent opponent so the game will turn into bombing each others planets.
A bit too cheesy for my taste.

I'd appreciate it if you could at minimum fix your English before you call other people "boy".

As far as I can tell, ships don't TELEPORT to my planets. They do this thing called phase jumping. You can scout incredibly early in the game, and see siege frigates coming out when they are FIRST coming out. 1-2. A capital ship + some offensive ships jumping in while they are gathering their "siege fleet of doom" to come to you does wonders.

Take the fight to them.

I can understand the complaint that siege frigates take too much abuse- you have to ridiculously out number them to stop them from destroying a planet before you can kill them, however the complaint that it's "too easy to mass 20 and rush" is just silly. 30 minutes isn't a rush. It's leisure.

He SAW the fleet coming. He had ALL his forces in system. The Siege Frigs take so much damage that they can sit under the guns of your entire empire and smoke the planet. That's the issue, people, and the next person who says "why didn't you see them coming" gets a smack upside the head.

Reduce their hp, and the problem is sorted. Just make them easier to kill. It's an elegant solution - you really shouldn't be bringing siege frigs in until the defences are - at the very least - engaged by other forces. If you want in-combat bombardments, that's what certain Caps are for - or you can hope you've got him distracted enough in the battle for the Siege Frigs to work, or you can give them enough of an escort, or you can keep switching targets until there are a few vulnerable planets to siege, or... lots of stuff. Just *not* being able to send nothing but sieges against the entire enemy defence.

I mean, seriously, how hard is it to defeat a planet's defences with a reasonable fleet? Not hard. Then bring on the siege. Requiring a basic bloody effort in building a mixed *combat* force to play this game does not seem unreasonable to me. Building a one-type zerg force is boring.

Funny, I thought he said his fleet was too slow to respond, that the enemy bypassed his other planets, and that the defenses he had did nothing.

Yeah, but stories change as you continue to argue in defense of a nerf. Always do.