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RE: I love the game but...
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:04 pm
by Shark7
ORIGINAL: WoodMan
So playing with plotlines off actually removes the wreck sites, not just the story from them? Thats handy to know, are you sure this is the case?
The wreck sites are also all labeled on the map, you could simply go into the editor and erase all the derelects at the 'Debris Field' and ' Desolation Moon' or 'World Annihilator' project sites.
Another option is to put a debris field near enough to each AI race that they can't help but find and repair them. If they find them, they will repair them.
RE: I love the game but...
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:38 pm
by BigWolfChris
I always play with the storylines off, so I can tell you there are no graveyards
But there will still be the odd advanced ship around, just now you get interesting choices with them
1) Keep them as your flagships as an advantage for 1 or 2 of your fleets
or
2) Dismantle them for technology to provide smaller benefits for all your ships and bases
Before you could mix and match due to the sheer numbers floating around, now you'll be doing well to find half a dozen for yourself
RE: I love the game but...
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:16 pm
by Raap
I rarely bother with them, since by the time I find them I usually have far better ships myself. I usually send them straight to the space port to dismantle them and get tech. I did have an interesting game where my early-game enemy managed to find two of them though. While my ships had 40'ish firepower( i.e. tech level 1 pretty much) those ship had like 400-500 or something and excellent shielding. As I was soundly beating him, I was suddenly surprisingly challenged when those ships arrived and added some much needed competition for my ships. Eventually had to combine all my fleets and ships to take them out in a single attack. Must have lost like half my ships there, but it won me the war.
RE: I love the game but...
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:35 pm
by Data
must've been an epic battle...you would be willing to go there again or next time you find them you destroy them?[:D]
RE: I love the game but...
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:29 pm
by Shark7
ORIGINAL: Raap
I rarely bother with them, since by the time I find them I usually have far better ships myself. I usually send them straight to the space port to dismantle them and get tech. I did have an interesting game where my early-game enemy managed to find two of them though. While my ships had 40'ish firepower( i.e. tech level 1 pretty much) those ship had like 400-500 or something and excellent shielding. As I was soundly beating him, I was suddenly surprisingly challenged when those ships arrived and added some much needed competition for my ships. Eventually had to combine all my fleets and ships to take them out in a single attack. Must have lost like half my ships there, but it won me the war.
I've found enough Titan Beam armed cruisers and frigates early on that I can literally wipe out the defenses of a home planet with the one fleet of 6 ships.
On the other hand, I've seen AI empires do the same with 1 or 2 of the really advanced ships as well. And you should really see what happens when an agressive AI race gets a world destroyer...ouchie!