Hi,

I've been playing the Beta and now the full game. The AI has sure imporved a LOT, as I found out when playing the game on HARD with 4 players.

I got into a cituation where my 3-planet empire got blocked by two asteroid fields. I have built a pretty powerfull fleet in each of my nodal systems, but when I tried capturing the botlenecked asteroids, I discovered that each one had two AI player fleets in them. What's more the AI players in each where allied.

So while I could take on one fleet, attacking two was out of the question. I tried a few different apporaches, all resulting in failure:

1. I built a Novalith cannon (TEC), but before I could fire it, two fleets of AI attacked my planet, where the cannon was built. Even with my entire system fleet and defences in system, I got killed

2. I could not do anything politically, because each AI mission involved attacking, and my fleets could not match the combined AI fleets.

3. Moving all my fleets into one system for a combined strike on one nodal asteroid resulted in the AI fleets from the second asteroid attacking my planet, the moment my fleet left to join the attack fleet.

Any ideas? Or is this just a lost game? Also, did anyone use the Novalith Cannon?