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AI War Strategy Discussion / Re: AI carriers: Where did we go wrong?

« on: March 18, 2012, 05:27:06 PM »

Thanks for the quick responses!

I only have three save files from the game. One is maybe 75-90 minutes before we started noticing tons of carriers coming at us, and I saved the "carrier onslaught" file shortly after it began. The 70k threat file was when we quit about 20 minutes later.

I'm sure there's a perfectly simple reason how we did this to ourselves, but neither of us are sure!

Edit: forgot to answer part of the question. In the intermittent 90 minutes, we neutered the last non-core planet where the resistance fighters are currently in that save in the south and took out a guard post or two on the adjacent core planet. Up north, we took Vilkas and Nuges, and we then knowledge raided Fenmik. Besides that I'm not sure if we did anything else...

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AI War Strategy Discussion / AI carriers: Where did we go wrong?

« on: March 18, 2012, 04:38:09 PM »

Hi all! A friend and I are big fans of the game, and I have spent plenty of time pouring over these forums learning details of the game.

We had a game end on us abruptly this morning, and we were left wondering how things could have gone so badly so quickly. We had AIP of only ~190 and were pushing slowly but surely to both home worlds, and we were feeling pretty optimistic at that point. Then suddenly, we started seeing these messages about the AI loading thousands of units on carriers over and over and over again. Within a short period of time, we had a threat level of 70k, and we were eventually killed by the nonstop onslaught of thousands of ships.

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I saw a similar thread about this, and some people mentioned about ship build up on AI planets spilling over to carriers if they get fully upgraded to mark V ships. We were being hit by thousands of mark I-III eye bots and space planes, not mark V ships though. We did neuter a lot of planets along the way. Would that have affected it?

Also, as much as I would like to think we were being aggressive, clearly at 15 hours in we weren't being aggressive enough. Still, though!

Can someone please tell me what we did to cause such a sudden and swift defeat? I can upload save files if that would help. Thanks for any input!