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[Chiefwaffles]

I'm fine with it. It just encourages players to actually consider defending their borders with static defenses/smaller fleets rather than just keeping a single doomstack next to their most threatening neighbor.

[dennislp3]

It was a little mixed for me....One game I had a lot....but most so far have had very few for me. One game it was also swapped with the Crystal entities....they were all around me with no other space creatures... so it seems like they just spawn in clusters, which would make sense.

[Teneb]

It was a little mixed for me....One game I had a lot....but most so far have had very few for me. One game it was also swapped with the Crystal entities....they were all around me with no other space creatures... so it seems like they just spawn in clusters, which would make sense.

I am not sure if it's a feature of the Leviathans dlc or patch, but space creatures other than the Space Cows spawn in clusters, yeah. There are also roaming Amoebas (in addition to stationary ones) that pursue the Tyanki.

[USEC_OFFICER]

They changed that a few patches back. I can't 100% remember the reasoning but it was probably to make different patches of space feel more distinct. This is mining drone space, this is crystal space, etc, etc.

[Chiefwaffles]

I just wish there was a hyperlane density setting between .75x and 1x.

.75x makes everything feel way too linear. You have to expand across basically just a line. Natiral enemoes like crystals/whatever stop expansion and exploration in their tracks because you can’t go around them. That plus the longer travel time means to have have to micromanage your military and civilian ships - if your fleets can even beat the aliens - unless you want to just wait until you have enough minerals saved up to build more fleets.

[thvaz]

Pirates are so annoying right now. doesnt matter how many times you crush them, they will always return stronger. I guess that by endgame they will be spawning 50k stacks.

I haven't seen one larger than around 5k and I'm about 400 years into my game. They only spawn if you have uncontrolled systems on your border, so if you build out to your neighbors then no pirates.

Bad mechanic anyway. The game is forcing you to expand just to get rid of annoyances.

I honestly never had a problem with them myself. Are you neglecting your military? My peaceful spiritualist xenophiles had enough of a military to fight them off. Later I just put up a nice beefy defense station at a chokepoint and let the pirates hit that whenever they came in.

I had many fleets. The pirates were not problems, just annoyances as I said. They would destroy a couple of mining stations before I sent them to hell. It was just annoying. I don't like to have to expand continuously to get rid of them. What if you prefer to play "tall"?

[Sirus]

Presumably if you prefer to play "tall" you build defense stations to protect the entrances to your territory.

[forsaken1111]

Pirates are so annoying right now. doesnt matter how many times you crush them, they will always return stronger. I guess that by endgame they will be spawning 50k stacks.

I haven't seen one larger than around 5k and I'm about 400 years into my game. They only spawn if you have uncontrolled systems on your border, so if you build out to your neighbors then no pirates.

Bad mechanic anyway. The game is forcing you to expand just to get rid of annoyances.

I honestly never had a problem with them myself. Are you neglecting your military? My peaceful spiritualist xenophiles had enough of a military to fight them off. Later I just put up a nice beefy defense station at a chokepoint and let the pirates hit that whenever they came in.

I had many fleets. The pirates were not problems, just annoyances as I said. They would destroy a couple of mining stations before I sent them to hell. It was just annoying. I don't like to have to expand continuously to get rid of them. What if you prefer to play "tall"?

Anyway, my save bugged. In a moment I had about 100 minerals/turn (though I was struggling with energy) and in the next both wer

You don't 'have to expand to get rid of them' but you do have to put up defenses, whether that is a starbase with defense platforms or a fleet stationed at the edge of your territory.

[Cruxador]

Pirates are so annoying right now. doesnt matter how many times you crush them, they will always return stronger. I guess that by endgame they will be spawning 50k stacks.

I haven't seen one larger than around 5k and I'm about 400 years into my game. They only spawn if you have uncontrolled systems on your border, so if you build out to your neighbors then no pirates.

Bad mechanic anyway. The game is forcing you to expand just to get rid of annoyances.

That wouldn't be an entirely bad mechanic, imposing order on ungoverned areas has some historical and logical backing. The real problem is that with the bonuses it gives, it's actually encouraging you to do is to leave a few systems to farm pirates.

I had many fleets. The pirates were not problems, just annoyances as I said. They would destroy a couple of mining stations before I sent them to hell. It was just annoying. I don't like to have to expand continuously to get rid of them. What if you prefer to play "tall"?

"Tall" in the sense of never expanding at all is a meme playstyle that doesn't deserve support, to be honest.

[lordcooper]

Spoiler: What a beautiful sight! (click to show/hide)

I left the sector AI to its own devices with a completely fresh planet.  Unique buildings on the right resources!  Robots where there should be robots!  Okay, the lab being right next to the planetary capital is an odd choice, but this is far better than the seemingly random choices it used to make.

[JimboM12]

i honestly thought the beautiful sight was dwarf and machine working together in harmony

except for that single repressed, unhappy one

[Majestic7]

I strongly suggest everyone to turn marauders off at galaxy creation untill a patch comes around to fix them. Right now they might decide to raid someone on the other side of the galaxy. While on their way to raiding, they will path through your empire and destroy everything you have. When they raid you, you can pay them off to prevent this from happening, but when they are just pathing through your empire, no such prompt comes up.

When the raid fleet is 6k - 8k strong and you can only scrounge together 1k-2k, it is basically a game over since recovering from the damage will take you decades. Not to mention that any hostile neighbors will like declare war afterwards. This seems like a serious oversight in the marauder mechanics.

I'm fine with them trashing you if you decide to take the trashing or can't afford the bribe, but this accidental trashing is just bad.

[Culise]

Presumably if you prefer to play "tall" you build defense stations to protect the entrances to your territory.

You should probably be doing this playing "wide", too, to be fair.  Defensive works make for some serious force-multipliers, and until jump drives arrive into the fray, being able to lock down choke points with static forces lets you free your mobile forces to actually do some damage.  Enemy raiders can be rather irritating, otherwise, so stopping them from moving into your space with either planetary FTL inhibitors or orbital FTL inhibitors is a strong plus.  A good fortress or citadel in the mid-game can easily equal a proper fleet, even if it can't move, and it runs off the starbase caps instead of your fleet caps. 

Also, I feel like jump drives are an even bigger game changer now than they were in older hyper-only games, even with the cooldown times.  I'm running hyper lanes a bit sparse (experimenting with 0.5-0.75) and they tend to be a bit snaky compared to previous patches.  When I have two stars spatially adjacent that have easily a dozen jumps between them, jump drives have cut transit times across my empire in half.  They're probably not as critical if you set the game options to denser arrangements, but they're even more valuable than I thought, and I already expected them to be pretty darn valuable.

[Sirus]

I'm hearing a lot of stuff about the new patch. How are people getting along with Apocalypse?

[StagnantSoul]

Really enjoying Apocolypse, it basically adds all the modded stuff without being broken like the mods. Still want more than four basic ship classes though... The models for titans and collossi are beautifully done too. Just kinda wish war wasn't so tedious now... The space mongols are neat, haven't bugged me in this playthrough yet.