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[Draco18s]

I do kinda' like 'em when I'm playing a non-defender map, though. Small starting population can do a pretty good job of taking care of normal AI waves for a system or two, especially if you've got a T-S manip or two supporting them.

Any game I start where I see the AI with viral shredders I go "Oh!  A piece of candy!" and promptly leech a handful.

[Frumple]

Wait, what? They're immune to reclamation. How are you filching them?

[Draco18s]

Wait, what? They're immune to reclamation. How are you filching them?

Right.
That changed.
It made me sad.

[Aklyon]

Wat.
Why is there so many things here?!

This is on a clusters-simple 80-planet map. And yet this planet of all places (only 2-3 hops from my outer planets) has 2 Fabs, a Star Con IV, a regen golem, a nuke eye, a counterattack II post, a regen chamber, a SF post, and a fortress.

[Draco18s]

has 3 Fabs

Two fabs.
Microparasites and Tele Leeches.

[Frumple]

It happens occasionally~

Fortify the crap out of it and enjoy. Pretty lucky to have that much in such a weak system, I'd say. Do try to keep the Ion III, that's pretty useful. At least if it's in a decent spot in the system... though even if it is close to an entry wormhole, might as well take it.

Seriously though, if you've got it on random AI that might be part of the cause. S'not impossible, anywaay.

[Aklyon]

Got things a bit mixed up typing that Draco, though considering how many things there start with F I'm not surprised

[Draco18s]

Got things a bit mixed up typing that Draco, though considering how many things there start with F I'm not surprised

No worries.
That is a juicy system though.

[Aklyon]

Theres also a planetary armor booster (and an ion cannon), a youngling vulture fab (and an ion cannon), and a factory (and an ion cannon) nearby.

So many ion cannons in this cluster its silly.

[Draco18s]

Theres also a planetary armor booster (and an ion cannon), a youngling vulture fab (and an ion cannon), and a factory (and an ion cannon) nearby.

So many ion cannons in this cluster its silly.

The AI likes to buy them from the Z-trader.

[Aklyon]

I don't have the Z-trader active, though.

[Draco18s]

I don't have the Z-trader active, though.

Not sure then.  The AI has a series of rules on structure building, but I'm not aware of all of them.

[sluissa]

Finally sat down and gave this a proper go... sorta. I played the "simulation campaign tutorial" all the way through for the first time...

I feel like I screwed up a lot by the time I got to the final assault. My ships kept getting reclaimed and then sent back to me in a counterattack which would take my launching colony. One time I went into the fight and the enemy had ~900 ships in the final area. At the end, there were 700 in my system, 300 in another of my system's and 300 still left in the enemy's system and I had to rebuild from scratch. This happened once more, but the numbers worked out better for me and I only had to take out a total of 500 on my final wave. Still a close match. By the time I got down to the last two core guardposts (ships all gone, luckily) I only had my bombers left. But it was enough to finish up the battle.

I just kind of felt like I had run out of options at that point and nothing I had was very effective against the enemy. Superior numbers won the day in the end.

Fun game, I'll have to give a proper campaign a go, but yeah, a very LONG game as well. Tutorial took me just a hair under 4 hours.

[Draco18s]

I just kind of felt like I had run out of options at that point and nothing I had was very effective against the enemy. Superior numbers won the day in the end.

Pretty much.

And yes, the game is long.  There's an achievement for a 24 hour game-time duration game for a reason.

[Frumple]

And another one beyond that for a 36 hour one

Though it caps off at that point. Does run off the in-game clock, I think, so increasing the play speed could help if you were aiming for that for some reason. Adjusting the play speed's pretty useful for a lot of things, honestly.