Love the new pacing :)

Actually, since the AI doesn't know how to use capital ships anymore, AI players became way too easy to beat, even on cruel difficulty (while cruel always was a nice challenge for me in Diplomacy).

How much cost structure of Titan?

p.s. Waiting for the screenshots and descriptions of the ship. I hope good people will fill the wiki for more).

https://www.sinsofasolarempire.wikia.com/wiki/Ragnarov

Problem is the titans are way too powerful. Just had a multiplayer and the first guy who got the titan won just because he got the level lead. My bigger empire and another player's bigger fleet was no match.

The developers of "Rebel" have focused on the acceleration of the parties. And that's fine. Who is Rush trying to prevent build a Titan. It's fun.

"Titans must be researched and built in four stages, each of which alerts other players of what you're up to so they'll have a chance to catch you while you're vulnerable (having funneled lots of resources into your Titan project). "
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/1219036p1.html

I do think that tians are far too easy to get early in the game and the AI is very slow to build them, but they are well balanced generally, at least from the 'fun' point of view, they really should be much harder to get a hold off, as it is if you spam research you can get it very easily and quickly, which is their problem. (imo obviously)

The faster games are very appreciated though.

I hope they aren't  taking a gem of a game and trying to make it a thirty minute smash up.

I also hope they didn't open a ai pandoras box by splitting a tried and true three ai's and split them into 6 wonky ai's.

It would have been smarter just to give each race a later staged Titan( 8 military labs) and create a fourth race.

Like StarCraft?

Titan must be available and on small cards. He is a symbol of the "Sins Rebellion".

Its still hardly a short game, They just made it a bit less tedious on the long inevitable stretch to the end, which has been half the problem with sins for a long time. And regardless, disable th new victory conditions and you have (pretty much) the good old sins that everyone loves.

Really when Ai get titans then its a very fair battle, but if you have one and they don't, then they're screwed. Maybe something akin to Nukes in Civ, one race building them unlocks them for everyone, or at least boosts their research.

It's already been noted in lots of posts but the AI suffered a stroke or something in the beta - it's a shadow of its former self. Unfair used to be a challenge but now it's a cakewalk.

I think its probably trying to do too much at once, and cant focus its self. Because it does all come together at once, but it takes a long time to reach that, and you end up with some really odd situations where you'll get one AI with 3 planets and 2 with 15. But thats just my hypotheses based on observation.