Slow Terror Stars

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With all the speed improvements, why are they so slow?

Also for being a "star killer" why are they so easy for the darn enemy to shoot down?? The death star in "star wars" was bristling with defensive weapons.

I guess that if I was going to build one I could just send a fleet of constructors which move faster to build one close to the enemy..

I also notice sometimes that ships on "auto pilot" don't move! (maybe it's just me)

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Not just you about the Auto Pilot thing. I thought some of my ships weren't moving, but I had other things going on in the galaxy, so I left it alone. Later, I checked, and the darn things were still in same sector. I had to click them and reset the auto pilot to get them to move!

Haven't built a Terror Star, but shouldn't it have a high defense score? If it doesn't naturally have one, do you build defense modules?

Actually, some people have used the move-constructors-to-doomed-planet-then-build-terror-star stategy before. :CONGRAT:


~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok... wasn't too sure if after the thing was built that you could still add more defense mods to it, wonder if adding the "speed" mods might make it faster?

Since adding a bunch of constructors together might take a while...
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Terror stars will only ever move at one I believe. To stop you wiping too many systems out in one turn I guess.

Best thing to do is make a big fleet of constructors off too where you want the terror star.

Terror stars are just starbases really - so they have the same defence value as them.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Yep, you can add any modules to it you want, including defense. A stratagy a lot of people use is to build a ton of influence modules on their terror stars, and "culture bomb" enemy worlds into rebeling.

I'm afraid it's stuck at a speed of 1 though. It would be really unbalancing to the game to have them zipping all around. ;)