Thanks for your feedback Glenn. These details are helpful in BETA. You are right, the difference between easy and normal is minimal at the momment, as the AI is still being refined. Do you mind if I ask what you were spending your money on in your second game? Also, how were your resources and how many planets did you have when the large force of(75/10/10) phased in? What kind of features other than combat, exploration, colonization, etc would you like to see in the game? Just so I know where you are at, what version are you playing?
I was upgrading the planet to max. Then defenses, a ring of the gauss cannons, research maxed in gauss, lazar, LRM, that was as far as I got, I had my planet, and I had just colonizied a astroid that was connected to my home planet only. I mean that is what shocked me in the game, to have a force that large come at you, is major overkill.
What I guess I didn't say was I have played ohh 50 games in all, using different tactics, on immedate expansion say vs planet and system build up. And to the one that asked if that has every worked, yes, moo and moo2,Apha Centary, ( cannot spell worth a nickel), as well as both GC games you can colinize only 10 planets and then sit there and research. Can't do that in this game, that is for sure, at least now as it is.
Version is the latest listed, 0.76[b].018.
The mix of the 3 is what I was looking at, your plaque at the start of the game states testing balance, well in the case of what I did, it is not balanced. Just a thought, even though this game is geared more towards instant hostility, at least the way it plays atm, but have some way of stopping your defenses from attacking a scout ship.
It may have been that fact that the gauss guns blew off quite a few of the scouts that got them to jump on me with and elephant.
I have also done a game where I expanded to 20 planets, again,had rings of defensive turrents and also had my planets at the max, and was flooded, is the only word by a LARGE number of ships from one of the other ai players.
Like I said in the first post, system building, and planet improvement is way to slow compared to how fast ships can be built.
And thank you all for your hearfelt responses, it pleases me to see such a responsive group verses some of the other beta's I have been in. Games end up getting better due to this type of conversation, I am not a perfect sole, nor can I spell correctly all the time. Sometimes the phrases put themselves down and quite honestly don't seem to lead anywhere.
I will try to be more objective when complaining?
Glenn
