Dark Force ability in Flagship Mode

[GnarKill]

I am curious why Thawn's ability to summon katana dreadnoughts only spawns 4 ships. The game description says 20 if I am remembering correctly, and in the books I'm pretty sure the force was something like 150 ships strong. I apologize if this has already been discussed. I could not find any forum topic on it.

[Revanchist]

Not 100% sure because I have been winning before I've gotten to use it multiple times (plus it's rarely high on my research priority list), but it may be that it spawns 4 each time until a maximum of 20 are made. I'll have to play around with it next IR playthrough.

[Slornie]

How does the ability interact with fleet pop caps? Might that be another factor in play.

[GnarKill]

It wouldn't make sense that it would spawn 4 every time until 20 are reached because the cool down time is something astronomical like 6000 seconds.

Also, I've made a point to have more that adequate population space for 20, but it did not seem to matter.

[Pali]

Might be the countdown is supposed to be 600 rather than 6000 - ten minute cooldown for spawning 4 dreadnaughts seems about right to me.  As for the research tooltip, it's probably just an older description that hasn't been updated along with the ability's changes over the versions.

[Lord Xizer]

I am curious why Thawn's ability to summon katana dreadnoughts only spawns 4 ships. The game description says 20 if I am remembering correctly, and in the books I'm pretty sure the force was something like 150 ships strong. I apologize if this has already been discussed. I could not find any forum topic on it.

Budget cuts man, Dreadnoughts aren't cheap...

[Corey]

It was changed without updating the toolti. Next version it will be removed because the Katana Fleet will be represented a different way.

[Revanchist]

Nice. While it's a cool ability (and I think flagships should have some sort pf special abilities), it is sort of an awkward way to throw the Katana Fleet in there.

[Papa Palps]

It was changed without updating the toolti. Next version it will be removed because the Katana Fleet will be represented a different way.

I'm super pumped to see how it will turn out!