Enforced Loyalty and Enduring Devotion, respectively.

In that case, you guys know it's coming, ramp up your techs. When you play monopoly do you whiteout Go to jail?

Throwing up a starbase at every planet you want to not be destroyed by a Novalith is an expensive, time consuming, micro heavy, not fun thing to do. It also doesn't protect your economy from having its tax income crushed, which is awfully problematic when you're trying to pay for a boatload of starbases due to said Novaliths.

It's just out of whack with how the other super weapons work and is simply not fun in its present state.

We really cannot say for sure that anything is overpowered until we get the other 2/3rds of the game. The other races will have I'm sure some new techs to balance out said superweapons.

Like I've said previously, the insurgency tech which has fleets coming out of NOWWHERE behind your defenses is more gamey and infuriating than a superweapon you can prepare for, and go out and kill.

???? I assume you mean logistical support which is fleet supply. Starbase's do not use fleet supplies....

None...

Sorry, my bad then. I rarely build starbases as i prefer to play aggressively.

I agree with the Capital Ship spams- im seeing 3 of everythings with minimal frigates. Less so on mines.

However, i cant say ive endured this yet- i played against 3 normals and saw no Titans, superweapons and like one fort. world. If anything im questioning the AI in this, their play style has become very different- ill make a complete post later on my issues.

But ya, both suggestions seem workable- though it could be suggested that the shield generator is the novalith counter. I did find the Novaliths too easily accessible, and a functioning AI might get something from that _._

What if Superweapons just had a credit upkeep cost or required some fleet supply? That way massing them means a a permanent hit to economy or fleet size that becomes more significant the more of them are massed.  Heck, with those sorts of drawbacks, the cost of building a superweapon or research tier could be reduced, making superweapons in general less of a niche tool for one faction and more of something many factions may consider buying one of.

If you make sure the player who ows the Novalith Cannons does not have correct intel on your planets beyond the frontlines than you don't have to place starbases there, assuming no scouts will ever reach those planets. Novaliths are only able to target planets thatare recently scouted for some reason (I think it has to do with a change of the planets' ownership).