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[Dunamisdeos]

I think he might be talking about this phenomenon, which I have also found a little irritating.

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Your fleet is outside the aggro radius of the spaceport on purpose, but then a single corvette jumps in within your own aggro radius.

AI moves your fleet towards the corvette in order to blast it since you are in combat now.

Auto combat AI also moves you into the radius of the spaceport, outside of your control.

Now you are in combat with everything, and you lose your fleet/retreat.

Would be nice to have an option that, say, makes your ships hold their ground in combat.

[forsaken1111]

DLC and Update date confirmed as Feb 22nd

[ZeroGravitas]

DLC and Update date confirmed as Feb 22nd

Oh, nice! I was expecting it to be March or early April.

well, you can expect the patch that will fix the bugs and obvious exploits to be in march or early april

[Chiefwaffles]

Stellaris Apocalypse Story Trailer.
A pretty great trailer, if I say so myself.

[Cruxador]

Stellaris Apocalypse Story Trailer.
A pretty great trailer, if I say so myself.

It's cute. But it's not really meaningful if we've already heard about it. Kind of teased three dimensional ship formations but that's more likely an aesthetic thing for the video alone.

[Egan_BW]

The UNE is dead. Long live the UNO!

[PTTG??]

Ok you know what? I want to play a game where I destroy
every
single
planet.

Obviously starting with enemy planets, of course, but eventually coming back around and cleaning up my homeworlds when I finish with them.

[EnigmaticHat]

Judging by their other games they probably won't let you.  That would be a very bond villain thing to do tho.

Top henchman: Yes, we've destroyed every planet outside our homeworld!  Now we have broken the cycle of life and death, and no rival life forms could ever develop!

You:  Yeah, that's... that's why we were doing this.

*huge shadow slowly moves over the landscape*

[LoSboccacc]

are them gonna fix weird combat bonuses in the patch?

[forsaken1111]

are them gonna fix weird combat bonuses in the patch?

What weird combat bonuses?

[LoSboccacc]

the force disparity combat bonus

[Culise]

the force disparity combat bonus

That's being newly-implemented in the patch, so I suppose the question then shifts to what you mean by "fix".  We don't really know precisely where the final balance pass is going to leave it yet.  I suppose it won't be fixed in the sense that it'll probably be alterable in the defines or other common files, but that's just a guess.  It might also be fixed in the sense that it won't change in-game as a consequence of technology or other empire bonuses, except insofar as those alter the combat power of ships and fleets; if the aforementioned defines do contain it, the only way to alter it will be via mod, and if not, it will be completely fixed.  On the other hand, it also won't be fixed in the sense of being repaired in this patch since it's not yet in the game to be broken, and since it's not out yet, we don't even know how badly or, indeed, even if it will be broken coming out of the gate.  It feels like a kludge to me, but it might still be a working kludge.

[forsaken1111]

the force disparity combat bonus

That isn't currently implemented. It will be added in the 2.0 patch soon. As Culise says, not sure what you mean by fix? This mechanic is supposed to be a fix for the current problem of force larger fleets taking almost no casualties in combat with smaller fleets. The smaller fleet will still lose with this bonus, it will just be able to cause some casualties.

The 'bonus' is just a slight rate of fire boost to represent a target rich environment when a smaller force is in combat with a larger one. It's probably the smallest part of the combat changes coming up.

[Chiefwaffles]

I’m warming up to that change, personally.
Just having smaller fleets being more viable against larger ones to the point of no longer being “literal suicide charge” and making the game less about having a bigger doomstack seems like it could really help.

I still wish they could have found a less... gamey way to accomplish if, but the disparity bonus seems like it’ll be a net boon to the game.

[Dunamisdeos]

Is it solely a rate-of-fire boost? Why not just an accuracy boost, if meant to represent a target-rich environment?

I'm highly interested in anything that moves us on from the current doomstack situation.