Quote Originally Posted by Silverraptor View Post
New Dev Diary. And I must say, I am optimistic about these changes.
To me, it looks like they started out with a combat system that ... essentially just doesn't work ... and now they're patching the patches on their patches in order to improve on something that should have been replaced. It's Frankenstein's monster, and it's not pretty.

In the real world, when a small force must fight a larger, you pick tactics and terrain that suits you and hinders the enemy.

In space, terrain would be immobile emplacements, or planets/asteroid fields. It could be mine fields. They have neglected the obvious chance to do this. They even have mine fields and immobile emplacements, they just don't work.

Tactics might be 'using multiple waves of his and run corvettes with torpedoes'. They've sort of hand-waved in this direction, but ... not really, right?

It's still a good game, and I've invested massive hours in it. But the combat/tactics are crap. And I'm convinced they'll remain so =)