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), I do pretty much the same. I however do send in the fleet to cover them (cloakers & shard).
Replace the tractors with a new tractor beam variant: stasis beam. Same thing, but the target ship is paralyzed. I'm pretty sure that would be a touch OP, but it would be interesting at least.
Sweep golem through planet, sweep golem through massive turret ball/minefield. Yeah sounds pretty broken. Of course, I think the botnet golem is pretty broken as well and it still works. So maybe that would be a viable solution. I mean there's not much difference between killing massive swathes of fleet ships in one barrage, like several golems can do, and paralyzing a ton of them to destroy them later. It also fits the spider theme pretty well.
Totally wasn't expecting a release at all!
Nice work.
By any chance, could you tell us the seed? I think that this map would be rather interesting.
I was a bit foolish, and took a world without scouting past it---and then found out it was next to the core. So now I have a core world irrevocably on alert, and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it. I'm playing a 30-planet map, so I haven't got a lot of breathing room. And as a matter of fact, I'm an hour and twenty minutes in and only have two Mark II unlocks so far, tho I have about 12,000 knowledge saved up. Anyway, I can see what X meant calling "a cage match with the AI" on the Wiki.
What would people do with this? First, I guess, I'll go pot-shot the command center on a world with a lot of wormholes to spread out reinforcements, but I'm still nervous about leaving a core world to build up right on my doorstep. I'm thinking of taking a few unlocks and going in with a ton of neinzul and a golem or two, hopefully killing enough guard posts to prevent a big buildup while leaving the command station so I don't get a homeworld on alert. It seems just feasible, with clever tactics. But that would still put the homeworld on alert for a while, and even with golems I don't think I have the economy to go straight in there. Still, I guess it's the right path; 30 planets and Neinzul bonus ships means you're going for a speed game, right?
While I'm on the topic, can I remark on how ridiculously tricked-out a 30-planet map with all expansions can get? I've just realized I shouldn't have taken this last world, with "only" an ARS, a Zenith Beam fabricator, Mark III and IV ion cannons, a Zenith reserve, and a broken armored golem; next to the other core I could have got an ARS, two fabricators, a cursed golem, and a data center. Or on the other side of this one four fabricators and a botnet golem. I reckon I'm going to need a lot of that pretty soon, but it's pretty novel seeing worlds like that.
Well, you also get them on either Hard Golems or Hard Spirecraft, I'm not sure which is being used here. But yea, they're supposed to be pretty hard. Though I'm a bit surprised at this comment because all the other recent negative comments I've heard on their difficulty (that I remember right now) were of the form "Hard is actually easier than Medium", so I certainly haven't been looking to decrease their challenge.
Anyway, the golem/spirecraft waves are "charged" by AIP, so keep an eye on that. The Fallen-Spire ones are not related to AIP.
The best defense for exo-waves is a rolling, or layered, defense. Since you don't exactly where the wave will hit, you can't park your fleet expecting to hit them right at the start. There is a delay. and for late games you simply can't get enough units in the right place sometimes. If you intentionally don't fight hard for the first world hit, but fight hard the world after, you can buy enough time to let your own major fleet meet up and fight back.
). The best defence is an as most concentrated defence as possible, imo. Get a fort, armor-stuff, golems, spirecraft and see if you can get that exo-wave to cross that planet that has all that on it.Alright, by the looks of it I'll have to give it another go. Still, I wonder if 20+ Massive AI ships will ever be stoppable by any defense. I mean, I would like to hear other players remarks on that.
if you're really concerned try starting the game with zenith polarizers.. theyre absolute death on the really tough stuff. ^^
Exos are definitely beatable, but you need a nice giant toolbox of responses, and you need to know which response is the correct one, and when. People never seem to use Implosion Artillery, but when it comes down to dealing with golems these things are pretty much your best friends. On the other hand, for those waves where it's a pile of little ships and two implosion artillery, I'd much rather have a giant fleet of siege towers.
Yep, they can't attack mark V ships, which I think the hybrids are. And if they are hostile gatlings to you, they won't attack other minor factions that are also hostile to you in any way.
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That sort of thing tends to fade from one's mind, though. It's like with my son, who is almost 9 months old, unbelievably. It's already hard to believe what he couldn't do just a relatively short period of time ago.
That duality of "it seems like that just changed" and "it seems like that has been around forever" seems hardwired into the human brain in some weird way.
