Orbital stations need a rebalance, badly

I have been playing a fair bit of 1v1 ranked recently, and here's what happens in every game.

Every single game seems to be a rush for orbital stations, their range is better than the land-based defence by quite a long way. Their range seriously needs nerfing.

The first one to orbital pretty much wins, and for me that utterly kills any other tactics, as I found myself now doing this, and it gets boring quickly.

Does any one else feel the same?

In stable or pte?

This is in stable.

Dox isn't the meta in stable? Or do you mean on the multi-planet-spawn system? If so, just spawn on the more metal planet always and then out-produce your enemy fast and tele-rush him. He spawns there too, then just straight up rush him, orbital won't save him.

No, usually you are dead if you try to rush orbital

If someone rushes orbital station above your head, build the land based laser defence. It has longer range than the orbital station, you must be just placing it wrong.

It's possible that this meta has developed at some levels of play on the ladder, but it certainly isn't the way the game gets played at the top. I actually wouldn't mind if anchors were a little more useful.

Basic factory spam ftw, just destroy everything with basic units asap.

rushing to anchor; 4k metal spent on a static defence

thats 800 dox btw

And THAT is why we cannot have nice things.

Because of a defence that can shoot at every unit type in the game?

Yes.

That's not what I meant.

Well, it is static. And, it can't shoot at things out of it's range, which is a lot of stuff. And, per metal, it doesn't even excel at things that can shoot back at it. So meh.

It's not like it's undetectable; you load up a deep space radar and you can see all orbital.

It's just another strategy, and frankly the anchors could be done with a t2 version

You haven't been spamming enough

The leading opinion on the forum is that the only viable strategy is to rush dox as quick as possible (and this is probably right), so it is interesting that there is another strategy out there, it is like a parallel meta that is unaffected by the forums meta, which is pretty cool.
Which rank are you? Do you have a replay ID of one of your matches?

This is like gazing into an worm hole to an parallel universe

criz.

Man so many threads complaining about orbital! I'm starting to look like a narcissist with all the self-advertising I'm doing!

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/wip-server-orbital-warfare-overhaul.62878/

Are you kidding me? 4000/45 is not 800. lol...

really now.. math fail, just because it sounds nice and fits with your view of the world doesn't mean it's true.

well i can say, in diamond its a dox spam with a transition into vehicles and air (for main army, continue harrasing with dox) then maybe if its dragged out with defenses built in the right areas and both armies are of near equal size, transition to T2, orbital is hardly seen, if i see it i just throw down some lasers, cant say anything about uber ranked, because they usually kill me within 10 minutes lol

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/depending-on-planet-size-anchors-outrange-umbrellas.64398/

possible merger. I thought this bug was fixed?