I just noticed that battle cruisers are not listed in the technology tab nor any of the rf calculations for the other ships.

I was wondering if there were any plans on bringing them back in (hell just replace the place holder that is the gamma glider with bc's) into the game or not?

Battlecruisers were by far my favorite ship back in the day as a fleeter the lack of them is saddens me as they were that had a perfect spot between battleships and destroyers in terms of progression. And they were extremely useful in smash and grab hits.

So how you see, you was wrong

As developers said BC caused some major bugs after code refactoring and had to be removed. Looks like for now we will have BS heavy fleets only with tons of LF fodder

Threads merged, since they had same title for same topic.

Bc are amazing..... they push crystal so well!! It's a pity that they aren't in game...

Hehe... back in the days there weren't any battlecruisers at all. They were introduced to game later and took out the beauty of various fleet composition building.
They are damn effective ships of course, but once gameforge intruduced them to game all fleet composition started to look the same and battleship, once so great war ship, became as good as fodder.
It may sound ironic, but as a fleeter without battlecruisers in game you have now more than one route to go. Lets pick the fodder ship first... and no it does not need to be lightfighter anymore.

Sorc wrote:

Sunthios wrote:

Battlecruisers were by far my favorite ship back in the day as a fleeter

Hehe... back in the days there weren't any battlecruisers at all. They were introduced to game later and took out the beauty of various fleet composition building.
They are damn effective ships of course, but once gameforge intruduced them to game all fleet composition started to look the same and battleship, once so great war ship, became as good as fodder.
It may sound ironic, but as a fleeter without battlecruisers in game you have now more than one route to go. Lets pick the fodder ship first... and no it does not need to be lightfighter anymore.

At a certain point all fleets look the same when you get to Dessie's anyway. i just feel like they were an awesome way to combat battle ship fleets without being forced to spam destroyers as much as possible. I felt like it added that final jigsaw puzzle on what counters what. I still always built battle ships usually in equal number to my battle cruisers and very rarely did I send one without the other on raiding missions.

I think GameForge has not intention to manage this code to change something, add something, etc ............

It is not a bug.

This server want to commemorate first versions of OGame, when BC or ACS were not released in game yet.

Right Battle cruiser has destroyed the balance, as battle ship became useless. It was an atempt to save it by reducing it's price, however luckily we have "old school rules" at Retro

Wasn't bombers and rips added after wise also though?

I mean hell I started playing in 2006 and bc's were already in the game for a long long time.

Edit the top I started a year later then I thought, it's been a long time.

That's not my experience. Destroyer was never all around ship owned by everyone. At least not by my experience.


Huh? GF Introduced so called "interceptor" later re-named into "battlecruiser" at the end of 2006 / beginning of 2007 if I remember correct.

"The Battlecruiser is highly specialized in the interception of hostile fleets. This ship, a technologic filigree, is deadly when it comes to destroy attacking fleets. With its improved laser cannons, it holds a privilege [sic] position between the heavy ships, where it can take down several of them in no time. Due to its small design and its enormous weaponry, the load cargo it's [sic] minimal, but this is compensated with the low fuel consumption of the built-in hyperspace engine” (GameForge, 2007)"