Superweapons are now capped at 4 per player. Like it or not, a switch wil most likely never be implemented.

Teun; I did not know that change had been implemented. That's great. That also means that, as jkmaster points out, you can probably mod your way ouf of them entirely.

Aye, but four superweapons I can deal with. It's when the AI has 15 planets doing continual bombardments that I get angry.

I just find it interesting that the AI preferentially targets me, even when I've got a 5.x relationship with them (they had a 3.8ish with me, so I couldn't treaty them), and am in a different system. I had two different TEC players shooting down my planets, one of which had no planets in my system, and vice-versa.

Seriously, played on a huge random and the planet bombardment damage I took was about 3x as much as the next highest enemy, and all of that was from novaliths, the only time my planets ever got sieged a ship was once or twice by random rebels before I put up some defenses.

On the other side of things, I never saw any of the Varasi or Advent players use a superweapon, though I think I saw one advent superweapon.

This was in a huge-random match vs 9 hard AI.

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yea i made one last week.

they wont even show up on the research tree.

In my mod I  converted all of the Super Weapons in to Ion Cannons.  Awesome Heavy weapons that do mass damg kind of like the Snipe weapon on the Titan.  Have great range and are for inner planet protection.  but they are not so over powered that you cant kill them either.  My way works the best.

There is none, Ive kept this mod pretty much to myself and my friends.  Ive made other changes to the game too that many here would probably not like very much.  like tougher and more over powered Capships.  along with many other changes.  but I have balanced my mod out across all races so its not uneven in any way. One of the things that has always bothered me and my friends is a capship pounding on a frigate for several mins.  that's just nonsense. which is why I made this mod.

But if you want my mod, I can send it to ya by email,  its not that big.  let me know.

Either this or have the limit to one...because the AI just spams them everywhere and what's worse is that they CONTINUOUSLY attack my planet non-stop to the point where its pointless to even try to colonize, by the time I do, it gets bombed again. And I've noticed glitches with Kostura's effect after getting bombed by them a bunch of times. (having stuff like labs and "culture towers" getting disabled permanently, it doesn't happen when you get hit like once. But multiple times and I start to notice that I have to scuttle and rebuild to get them working again)

/signed

Darksxx, I think it would be great if you made a smaller mod with just the superweapons being turned into ion cannons.

Is the cannon particle effect and damage the same for all races?

Exctly the Same dmg, except they have a differant look when firing and are named differantly.

Like this.

TEC - Ion Cannon - Does 2450 Dmg per shot.  it might sound like a lot, but it usually will take two shots to kill a frigate.

This is how you will see it worded in the game.

"A defensive platform that fires large Ion plasma bolts causing heavy damage to enemy ships at long range."

Psi - Psionic Plasma Bolt Cannon -  Same Dmg 2450

Phase - Kostura Energy Bolt Cannon - 2450 Dmg

Each of the Cannons are capable of hitting targets within a gravity well of each planet where they are built.

I did not change how they are in the research tree.  all of this is still the same.

Ill get this uploaded by later today.

Nova is worth it against the AI. So is Kostura. Only the DE isn't worth a lot in building.