compaired to SEIV

[deccan]

Taqwus said:
SE IV has a greater transition between a decent possibility of turtling (minefields, weapons platforms, combat satellites, choke points; compare to weak Dom II province defense) to the eventual Hammer of God technology (ability to generate own warp links giving insane mobility past even deep defenses, ability to detonate stars wiping out all ships and planets in the system, ability to smash planets) which guarantees that stalemates are remarkably unlikely to be permanent.

There are system gravitational shields, no? So you can turtle indefinitely if you want.

[Taqwus]

Hm, were there? Don't recall that facility; maybe it was added in the expansion pack or a more recent patch.

There was an exploit in which one could theoretically have a disconnected component of systems, each of which had the maximum number of warp links to each other however. Took a bit of work to do, but it was the only way to be espionage-proof even against concerted attack, IIRC. Of course, at that point you couldn't expand, either. Wonder if it was ever fixed.