Stopping the Ancient or "Cylon" Sneak Attacks

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James009
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Stopping the Ancient or "Cylon" Sneak Attacks

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In my current game the Ancients or (due to some modding) Cylons have decided to continually do hit and run attacks against my fleets, stations (defense), and Earth. This basically decimates my forces and I've got no way of countering it. What should I do?

The oddest thing is that we are not at war or anything! In fact, they even like me with something like +20 relations. Regardless, they keep attacking me and when I ask them to cease attacking they say, "Oh, I'm sorry, I don't know how that could have happened".

This reminds me of BSG. Has anyone heard of this or had it happen? I hate to think it's some sort of a weird bug... Maybe the "Ancients" were corrupted or became evil.

What I have been doing:
- Build a heavily armed defense network around Earth- HELPS
- Attempted assembling a large majority of my ships into one fleet for defense- FAILED
- Spreading out my ships so they don't all die- Works... a little- Giving them tribute
- Diplomacy!


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James009
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RE: Stopping the Ancient or "Cylon" Sneak Attacks

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This was not the first Cylon sneak attack. I managed to re-construct Earth Space Center and build a Defense Installation before this attack occurred. They appear to be targeting only military targets (no civilians or traders) and always hit me when I'm constructing more ships. As a result, I cannot effecively re-create my fleet. I'm relying on heavily armed solo ships to maintain the peace elseware and warp out if they encounter Cylons.

I'm just waiting for them to finally invade my planets so I can do a Battlestar Galactica AAR, lol.

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They seem to have this distant planet (not in Utopia) completely surrounded but NOT blockaded. Weird.

What ARE they doing?!
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RE: Stopping the Ancient or "Cylon" Sneak Attacks

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Spoilers- Spoilers

Their isn't much you can do.   The only thing that I have found that works is research adv. missiles, good targeting arrays and point defense on loaded out destroyers or crusiers.  Set all of your ships to standoff and retreat at 50% shield damage.  Run them as mini-fleets of 2-4 ships depending on size.  Usually, you can do enough shield damage to force them to retreat or have your ships run away fast enough to prevent them from completely destroying you.

You don't want to destroy them as they seem to produce larger ships as a result which will only make the situation worst.  Retire all advanced ships for the research bonus as the "Cyclons" will just destroy them.  

They seem to group around debris fields and world moon sites.   
"Good, evil... I'm the guy with the World Destroyer"
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RE: Stopping the Ancient or "Cylon" Sneak Attacks

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but we wouldn't mind to have a Battlestar Galactica AAR also [:D]
...Igniting stellar cores....Recharging reactors...Recalibrating hyperdrives....
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