Air combat / combat

[Shau]

Do you guys enjoy air combat? I habe to admit, that I hate it. Anywhere out of nowhere boom -> 10 buildings are destroyed after ai dropped a bomb. The air defense turrets are a joke. How many of them would you need to prevent 1 ship from dropping a bomb on your harbor? I don't know about multiplayer, but in single player, the whole airial combat seems to be poorly designed. There is an anti air ship. What is it used for? My ships were attacked by air exaclty once (I even lost a battle cruiser due to that attack). They were parking on open sea for multiple hours in enbesa before.

To my opinion, the person in charge for ai and combat implemented one of the worst combat systems out there. I do wonder - is it fun in multiplayer?

1) Invisible mines blowing up ships in a second. (very funny, when you simply want to move ships to another area and 2 of 4 ships die as soon, as they arrive there)
2) Almost uncounterable flying ships can just fly over your harbor and destroy 5-10 buildings in a second.
3) AI being mostly passive when in war.
4) 3 minutes wating time until you can actually repair anything that was attacked during during a fight. If you've lost your main building, the entire island will refuse to work or do anything
5) AI can just buy shares of your island without asking.
6) When conquering an island, every building gets wiped out.
7) Items that bypass everything

It's like they picked the worst possible mechanic for everything mentioned.

[Humble]

You can see sea mine, kind of white round under sea, this only happened round of dr hugo island, 3 way to beat his island, long range buff item on battlecruser, second is air bomber, and last sign non threat agreement for 5 hour then buy all of his share then buy island after that then work your relation to him at least 50 before non threat agreement is done so he can't make war on you.

Second for air defense, you need spread out of fank, it's had bouns slow air ship into snail. I think 3 to 5 spread out but within each other to shoot airship, plus use flak ship to get ahead of your air defense, it's very helpful when you had 5 at least flak ship, and 5 air defense, but key is take all new world island resources that build airship, I think A.I can't use airship when you are only control all resources that build airship while they don't had resources to build airship, small or tiny island is ok, as long there is no air ship resources on island, although they could build airship hangar on island that don't had resources but I don't see they had airship at all as long they don't had access to airship resources, that's how you control sky. Same thing artic, control all island and a.i can't build airship too.

[Shau]

I'm not saying that I can't beat the npcs. It's actually pretty easy if you like turtling like me. I'm just pointing out that most mechanics about war there are simply unfun or boring. Every hour dr hugo is buying 1 part of Tamborine and I simply buy it back. The air bombers caught me by surprise, but you can still rebuild everything if they don't oneshot your island. I'm working on clearing the npcs from the new world. But it will take some time until I have enough influence to chase them away. And yes, I'm using long range boats. It feels like cheating. On the other hand, there are air bombs which cheat too by killing way too much way too fast. -.-