Now that BlueAward has brilliantly proved that Gateways to the Void are indeed a very useful building, what do we do with them ?
Outside of the problem of balance and Wobbly's quite correct affirmation that buildings that are long to build but can be paused to serve as trap may be a shitty design, there's one problem that, if I'm not mistaken, has not been anticipated :
From what I understand, a Gateway once build destroy all colonies in the system, but leaves outposts.
So it is still under the control of its owner, who can scrap it whenever s/he wants.
BUT since invading the outpost would require to put a fleet of troopships on the system for one turn, it's not possible to take the system from its owner.
Am I mistaken there ? Is the fleet destroyed only after it has invaded ?
And with the stealth that the Outpost has now, is it even possible to invade ?
That means that if the player that has the Gateway is defeated everywhere else, and with current victory conditions, it's not possible to have a "last surviving Empire" victory for anyone but him/her if s/he doesn't scrap the Gateway by their own volition...
Outside of the problem of balance and Wobbly's quite correct affirmation that buildings that are long to build but can be paused to serve as trap may be a shitty design, there's one problem that, if I'm not mistaken, has not been anticipated :
From what I understand, a Gateway once build destroy all colonies in the system, but leaves outposts.
So it is still under the control of its owner, who can scrap it whenever s/he wants.
BUT since invading the outpost would require to put a fleet of troopships on the system for one turn, it's not possible to take the system from its owner.
Am I mistaken there ? Is the fleet destroyed only after it has invaded ?
And with the stealth that the Outpost has now, is it even possible to invade ?
That means that if the player that has the Gateway is defeated everywhere else, and with current victory conditions, it's not possible to have a "last surviving Empire" victory for anyone but him/her if s/he doesn't scrap the Gateway by their own volition...
Statistics: Posted by LienRag — Tue Jul 02, 2024 1:38 pm