slipspace probes?

Well, if you made the direct-route-slipspace slower then using the phase lanes, you'd have to make it toggleble. So I can choose to either go straight to their homeworld, from my homeworld, and give them advanced warning. Or I can go stealthy-like and follow the phase lanes and ambush one of their outer planets. Seems kinda hard to me.

It doesn't change the fact that once the planet is found, this ability becomes retarded overpowered. You all keep thinking that once it's late-game, this ability wont be overpowered, and you're wrong. Even late game, I can't afford to spam 50 SMAC platforms on Every. Single. Planet. I own, it's just not feasable. But that's what this ability will force ALL players to do.

Late game every planet will have been found, and now I have to constantly be wary of a covenant strike force on any of my planets, every planet needs a MASSIVE defense fleet somewhere close to it, and tons of local defenses. Early game, mid game, late game, this ability simply will NEVER work unless you can find a way to get rid of phase lanes. Since the only way to balance this ability, is to make it so you can hide from your enemy.

Idea is good, would be nice to see other planet types with shitload of tac slots, so you could have a "Reach" type planet, where you could spam SMAC's, and repair stations, and shipyards, and make it a very important world. But even so, this idea wont help with the slipspace idea, since to attack from multiple sides all they have to do is capture a planet on the far side of the system, 20 jumps from your homeworld, and attack you from two sides.

Just thought I'd correct you, the SMAC's wont be housing strike craft, nor will they be repairing anything. That was decided a while ago, actually. But besides that, a dedicated Covenant assault would steamroll UNSC defenses, I mean a SMAC platform would go down just as quickly as any other UNSC ship. So if the covies have that in-system ability, they'll jump in, get hit by a salvo of SMAC rounds before doing an in-system jump and plop themselves right next to the SMAC guns and destroy them in a single volley. So really, SMAC's wont be THAT effective.

Actually, this brings up a question about the in-gravity well jumps, who came up with that? I mean honestly, you can't get a more OP'd ability. It makes any sort of defense utterly pointless since you can just jump yourself from one side of the gravity well, to the other, and then jump yourself right out there. How was this even supposed to be balanced?

everyone forgot about my suggestion......

i wonder how the science facilities will look like

well if we remember from fall of reach that the covenant take the technology from any race they encounter. like the human comunications systems when they took harvest.

no, in Contact Harvest, the entire setup was destroyed to prevent that sort of thing happening.

I'm working on getting High Charity done and I already have earth completed. I DO need to know who to make certain planets a race's home planet.

go read both books contact harvest has big pictures for communication between brutes and humans

they made primitive intrusions into the human computer systems and learned very quickly

^most UNSC ships had point defense autocannons

with the whole planet jumping thing, ummm, uhhh

yeah

maybe im not thinkin hard enough for the answer

or maybe the answer is so simple i overlooked it

my head hurts, er, i think my brain just peed it self