Quantity is a quality on its own. The defensive bonuses for fighting on rugged terrain are also huge.
I hear 5 nukes is the threshold for nuclear winter. Also nukes really don't do much to alien armies.
2 of yours vs 1 alien troop you'd still win. much better odds than anyone else.
Yup happens all the time to me. Sometimes the graphics glitch and PD beams are firing but are not visible (i have arc lasers) and sometimes they just refuse to shoot. Didn't happen when i used particle PD but arc lasers are better. Switching ship stance seems to help sometimes, though the defensive weapons are only supposed to be disabled for the max attack ones which i never pick.Can someone explain the ship ai to me?
In this picture, I have 4 ships, each of which has a phaser pd. And the ship that's at an awkward angle is about to be annihilated by enemy projectiles. Yet none of the ships are firing their PD. I thought I was going crazy and the uv lasers on the ships also didn't work, but they're just invisible... I feel pretty dumb about that in hindsight. Are phaser PD also invisible and I just don't have sufficient firepower? Am I taking a penalty because I accidentally 7 MC above cap?
I leave my ships on default all the time, just occasionally use lock on and full stop. And global focus fire.Yup happens all the time to me. Sometimes the graphics glitch and PD beams are firing but are not visible (i have arc lasers) and sometimes they just refuse to shoot. Didn't happen when i used particle PD but arc lasers are better. Switching ship stance seems to help sometimes, though the defensive weapons are only supposed to be disabled for the max attack ones which i never pick.Can someone explain the ship ai to me?
In this picture, I have 4 ships, each of which has a phaser pd. And the ship that's at an awkward angle is about to be annihilated by enemy projectiles. Yet none of the ships are firing their PD. I thought I was going crazy and the uv lasers on the ships also didn't work, but they're just invisible... I feel pretty dumb about that in hindsight. Are phaser PD also invisible and I just don't have sufficient firepower? Am I taking a penalty because I accidentally 7 MC above cap?
On the one hand, them being invisible kinda suck for fun factor. Otoh, it's really good realism!
Then just go Mars first. In my (only) game, I founded my Mars base before any of the luna bases were operational anyway.
I don't really agree, but I also don't think you are super wrong. Getting any positive resource flow will let you construct modules in space, and earth interfacing science stations are pretty good, even at t1.
Space Resort + Geriatric facility spam. I think space resort gives 450 a pop? That's massive. Build two dozen of those and you're in the money. Of course, you need to have Ring Habs first, and preferably have fusion reactor farms unlocked (or even better, heavy fusion farms) to maximize efficiency. Of course, both these things cost boost in upkeep, which is hard as fuck to build up, so there's that. Selling resources doesn't really help when you're really going into space industrialization, as the prices to upkeep ring habs and all the shit on them are pretty steep.
I see. I have yet to get ring habs, as I was (and am) focusing on military applications and engines. I'm hoping spinal coiler mk3 will let me siege alien platforms, although dealing with alien bases this way does not seem likely.
I tend to agree, imo there needs to be a third slowdown event in like 2035-2040 somewhere that push mission frequency to one per month.
Can't you just ignore them? At least in my game the ai barely even tries to target any of my stuff as long as I keep the points defended. Which is still a bit tedious admittedly...
I can't take on an alien space station even with plasma weapons, so I doubt coilguns will work. Aliens just spam way too many defenses on them.
I'd rather there be a way to take out a faction entirely. After I unify the world, I'd just prefer to not have to set up councillor missions ever again.
They'll spam public missions and raise unrest ad nauseam, until they can take over a point (typically targeting Australia, as it's the smallest country after all the unifications that cannot be unified under anything else. Measly 3 CPs are a prime target), and if you let them level up way too much, they'll start trying to assassinate your councillors. At least that's their modus operandi in my game. I'd just like them to fuck off forever after they essentially lost the game, and stop the game from pausing every 15 days. I wanna concentrate on space shit, not constantly deal with this crap.
I *think* the alien layered defenses have less than 1000 km range, which should let t3 coilguns outrange them. I might be wrong though, in which case it won't work. I guess the only remaining strategy if that doesn't work is some weird dodge ship, or stacking 50 points of armor on the front and taking the hits.
your requirements to win are:
I went with nanofactories and nanofactoring complexes since i invested too much into mining but spent almost nothing on boost after colonizing Mars. So my boost now is like +19 which would be enough for 6 geriatrics facilities. I think going for hotels or geriatrics would be more efficient because getting boost doesn't require MC unlike metals.
Holy fuck, it takes that long to beat the aliens? I'm in 2060's and already running out of techs to research
Oops, i meant 2041
Yeah pretty much.So how do you stop the alien ai from being a super annoying coward?
Almost 20 times my combat strength, and still it refuses to engage. Do I need to just attack it 10 times to waste all its fuel? It's really annoying, the gui is terrible for repeatedly launching the same thing.
Having higher cruise acceleration than the defender also doesn't seem to work, though perhaps i just need to get it to 100 or something. I've managed to catch an alien fleet somehow being reinforeced by the servants once, it said spent 0.0001 delta v attackers catched up.
Yeah. The funny thing is that I honestly don't think I could win that even if I was allowed to attack with my whole earth fleet. The carriers have a really good plasma cannon. So in the end they just landed, same as usual.Yeah pretty much.So how do you stop the alien ai from being a super annoying coward?
Almost 20 times my combat strength, and still it refuses to engage. Do I need to just attack it 10 times to waste all its fuel? It's really annoying, the gui is terrible for repeatedly launching the same thing.
In my experience, no. That's why I argued that going into space prior to Mercury is kinda pointless.
Short answer: Yes. Long answer: You will get drives that have even higher delta-v stocks than the aliens at the cost of just a couple propellant tanks, but it's end game tech. Actually, from what I've seen, any drives that are worth a shit among the end game techs. You get some that are somewhat serviceable (managing to make it to Mars, then refuel, then go back for example) about three quarters through the tech tree, but they'll be slow as shit in combat.
