Off topic, but there are plenty of people on these forums who simply won't read, even if you explain things as s l o w l y as possible...
I suppose it's just a necessary evil

The best way to deal with this (in my opinion) would be to reduce the HP and also reduce the cost accordingly (reduce HP 40%, reduce cost 40%) It may have already been said, but after a while of reading posts for the sole purpose of insulting each other, I gave up reading.

And all the later post did was give reasons not to use that strategy, with no explanation of why the AI does use it, over and over and over and over again. Not just against players, but against each other as well.

Actually, I was talking about the logic of your post, but meh. My sarcasm clearly failed.

Dont know having a blast and I know what the OP is talking about, I won't yet play online because I need a full grasp of the game before I do. However this issue is as the dev said , pretty easy to over come with a good def. You say you had allot but I have yet to have this spam of bombers take out my planet after my first two lessons learned.

I have learned to expand to one area and build build build baby, ya the AI gets more land, but I send out small things to piss it off and pirates are my best friends for keeping the AI in check.

So far balance is very good in my eyes, this issue among others I seen getting posted now are all tatics my friends all can be overcome with an understanding of what you need to do.

I'm a new poster, who just bought the game and played 2 games so far, and I've had no experience with any stardock games, but a big rts player.

I've had some of the same problems as most of you, and there's a lot of suggestions of how to fix it, all of which would probably work one way or another.

I think the biggest problem people are having with the siege rush is that there's no counter other than "get the other guy first." Once the attack has begun its really hard to stop. So why is the "get the other guy first" strategy the only one that should work? If I spend a lot of time developing a planet and building defenses around it, its disheartening to see a group of ships ignore my defenses and still deal a crippling blow to my empire.

Why build defensive structures when they are all going to be ignored and the thing I'm defending is so easily destroyed?

Planet HP is so low compared to ship HP its silly to think of them as anything bigger than frigates. Capital ships have about the same HP as a planet, and planets don't get the same armor and shields as a starting out capital ship. Taking planets should require a siege, hence the siege ships. As is now, demolishing a planet's population is more like a quick carpet bomb and move on.

Trying to meet the enemy fleet and halting them is the most depressing defense strategy I've ever used. You charge ahead to meet your foe, but if the jump is long enough that he can cross the gravity well and jump past you, then all you can do is wait. Even if you manage to meet him in the gravity well, he moves straight on. Sure he's a bit of a sitting duck while he waits to jump again but your ships are busy doing ridiculous spin moves while he moves on as if he'd never met you. Sure you destroyed a few of his ships, but you didn't HALT him in his tracks.

A large number of the complaints is that they've got way too much life. That's one way of fixing this problem. Its true siege weapons usually are easy to destroy, but that's also a play style we've become very accustomed too. Perhaps dropping their movement speed, or an increased likelyhood of hitting while they're shooting.

Perhaps another way is to increase the planet HP. I mention again that they require a lot of technology to have the sort of health of a capital ship. Why are surface structures easier to destroy than other space ships? Are our space age bunker busters so much more effective than today's standards? And unless they're using some ridiculous nukes on these planets, they're definantly not covering the whole planet in so little time.

Then there's the defensive structures in the system. With a limit on how many you can build, and their inability to move they should have a lot more going for them than a normal ship's stats. I haven't analyzed this solution, but it seems like other than being no-tech required to build they don't seem any better than the long range frigates.

I'm gonna end this with agreeing with the people who don't think is a bug or exploit. Its just as fair if you do it or they do it cause everyone's playing with the same rules. That being said, the rules definantly seem to be favoring one or two strategies right now, and that seems a little boring for the varied playstyle everyone wishes it had right now. I trust we'll see some improvements one way or another in the next couple of months.

Ok, I get it. It's a stupid tactic to use against experienced players. But players aren't the ones using it, the EASY AI is. The Easy AI should be there to let new players learn the basics of the game, not to pound them into the dust before they figure things out.

Schod, remember that forum posting is like a chronic disease. It just won't go away.
So don't apologize about hipocrisy - blame it on the Evil Alien Entity that is the forum. We'll understand

good point. i think they should be weakened so they are easy to kill and IF the cost is lowered, that its not lowered too much. your frigate fleet would be great for colony raiding but if you don't scout, you might find your fleet being decimated by a well defended enemy planet.

I did lose a game of Sins to a chicken...it was sad.

oh well, some of us are forever stuck as cute rodents

deal!

lets just wait a *little* while, because right now we're jumping to conclusions.

Time will tell.

From my understanding, there is problem with this though. How do you know where the enemy fleet is going? They can simply bypass your planets, after they've waited a few moments grant you. When your fleet does arrive, the planet is already destroyed, and the enemy, once it takes considerable damage, flees the scene. The damage caused by the loss of said planet, particularly if it is your capital, is devastating, so it might be hard to launch an effective counter attack. This is what I've grasped from previous arguments.