Thanks for the bit of Info, I was wondering what the cost was.  How long does it take to build one of these ships?

Also Yarlen, any idea when the beta will be ready? It seems that you guys are getting close.  just wondering how close.

Also in the interview you guys mention there will be a small number of changes to planets.  can you give us an idea of what those changes are?  And if there will be at least one or two new planet types, kind of like planets that look cracked or blown apart already. not habitable, but definitely a mining rich area.  I personally would like to see moons added.  smaller moons orbiting the planets.  give those planets some really meaning kind of like the smaller asteroids now that orbit the planets.

Thanks Yarlen, great article!

This is good, the first meaty bit of information instead of vague hints.  Lots of in-depth answers this time around.  I'm a little concerned when I heard 'no major changes to caps' though.  I really hope efforts are made to make the support and battleship caps viable choices over the carrier/colonizer every time.

From Interview: We're actually working on the corvettes' design still.

>.>  Craaap.  This means more waiting.  *le sigh*  Glad to have some more information at least.  Can't wait to explore the new Advent synergy created by the corvettes, new capital ship, and the titans.  >=D

The capital ships are fine as they are with the exception of the Advent's Revelation.  That one needs help.  I think they should also rebuff the Progenitor's colonization bonus back up to a 20-40-60% discount.

I think (hope?) the extra ability levels (specialization) and new capital ships may change the overall dynamics enough without more direct changes (but helping the under-performing ships might still be called for).

This is one of the best game interviews I've ever read. The interviewer actually asked detailed knowledgeable game-related questions and the developer answered.

Great interview!

Huzzah for new info!! All the new ships look sweet (especially Advent titan!) So funny that TEC rebels can ally with pirates, that's a cool idea.

Great article, very informative, thanks. 

After reading this I played my first game on Sins in about 8+ months!! Good to be back haha

Yes, my bad on this during the interview. We have adjusted the balance on several of the capital ships to better fulfill their intended roles.

Yarlen you rock!

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I  completely agree, it was a veritable flood of exciting revelations.

I am glad to hear the capital ships are being rebalanced. At least I will feel better about the game's balance.

IMO though, the problem of certain capital ships is not exactly in whether they can fulfill their role well, because most of them do.
The problem of certain caps is the combination of the following factors:
- The opening cap is usually Carrier for aggression or Colonizer for expansion. Other choices are very risky and less effective (with some being outright absurd in a competitive game), which forces many support caps to be built later.
- Only the first, the second and maybe the third cap actually get the chance to level up at any sensible rate; the latter caps will most likely enter a big fight at level 3-4 (if you purchase levels for them).
- You most often get no more than 3-4 caps in the regularly sized games.
- Support caps suck at low levels.

It's the combination of those factors that make certain caps underwhelming: you can't get them at the start cause they're useless in militia/pirate shootouts or in rushes against players SO you won't get them early BUT they need to get a few levels to be really useful, which levels they won't get the chance to aquire if you don't build them early.

I believe that you should probably consider giving the underused caps either:
- better survivability and utility at low levels (which would make them more useful when they get to a big fight at level ~4 in later game) OR
- stronger early game (so that picking them early doesn't make it an instant suicide; they should be worse choices than carriers or colonizers in their respective scenarios, but not as bad as they are now. For example, Antorak Marauder is useless as an opening cap... BUT if Phase Out Hull gave 40AM per use if used on a friendly frigate, it would synergize very well with colonization frigates early game and would allow the antorak to maintain a decent expansion pace when followed by a single colony frig.)

PS. I too agree that this interview was indeed very good and informative.

This^. I am afraid that Caps will still not be that viable. I want caps to be strong but Sins online so far has not favored Capital ships at all. Their cost per damage is just still too great. If that fixed some how capital ships would come viable IMO.