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Thing's i've noticed in entrenchment really anger me.
A) AI spam starbases early making it impossible to beat them early game (vasari in this are screwed over completely due to lack of early anti structure unit)
If you and an enemy has even fleets and one of you attacks the other your fleet is forced to retreat. It's an arms race that if you have even planets doens't work.
C) Mines are still annoying if someone places at edge of gravity well. Imediate explosion can take out half a fleet and then you have to run.
D) Computers make the game take forever.
Scenarios i've recognized this
A) I was vasari and played against an advent hard. We both had 3 bar fleet (very early game) mine was slightly bettter. I take out his fleet and he has a starbase in the gravity well. The multiple bank firing pretty much annaliated my fleet even though i spent more resources on it. I even had a starbase myself in teh gravity well and lost. It was slightly weaker upgradewize but i still got screwed.
B ) I've stood at a standstill with a person just fortifying. I was advent he was tec. Being a hard computer and me having to fend off 2 fleets, his fleet was about 50% stronger than mine (my advent battleball still a decent defense fleet*) He had the defense's of an allies starbase(all enemies computers) I finally got bored of sitting there with him warpign in and out so i saved and attack totally destroyed. The starbase was upgraded enough that it did most of the damage to my fleet (iconus took most of the heat, but not enough lost pretty badly). Whenever he sent a scout in it would be destroyed in about 5 seconds due to having a huge amount of defending strike craft (45 tactical spots in defense with turret synergy and a fully upgraded starbase) His ally also had a 10 bar fleet and kept alernating wapring in and out of my gravity well losing a little and then building it back. No headway was made whatsoever even after 60 or so minutes. I finally quit. Computer's are too sensative to retreating if they can't outnumber you by a lot they don't attack. I resorted to warpign my fleet out of gravity well getting him to warp his fleet in and then rewarp my fleet back in. Totall waste of time because the computer would just go back to his super fortified base. (Some way to sto pthis fomr ahppening would have been nice the computer just had 2 10 bar fleets sitting in a gravit well for about 30 minutes doign nothing enough that my fleet would have lost in his well and his would ahve lsot in mine.
C) I've done thismyself and taken out over 20 ships wiht 5 groups of vasari mines. A capital was destroyed in that.
D) Same game as in B computers each had about 4 allies and no one had the strength to get through the others defenses (6 player ffa teams unlocked). Having one 3 fleets in one well in which 2 fleets are fighting and the 3rd is jsut sitting there was annoying. My only ally in the game kept telling me to attack peopel across the map over 10 jumps away so i kept losing his allegance. I finally did quit as said above because the computer's were making no headway either. (another thing is as soon as i allied with the computer all the other computers told me to get their allegance i needed to attack my ally really made it impossible to get more than one ally while all the computer's were the best of friends. I was the person with the least allies. Even by having the best economy the computer's outproduced me by 2x at least. Hard AI
*My fleet was 10 dominas, 10 crusaders, 20 illuminators, 3 torpedo cruisers, 6 capitals (2 progenators and the one of the others all with level 4 abilities), 20 defense vessels and 5 drone hosts. His fleet was 20!!!! heavy cruisers 20!!!!! carriers, 30 javilis 10 hoshikos and 2 capitals. We had about even planets (i had full upgrades in resources with 5 planets with about 4.5 income in resources 20 in credits, he had 6 planets and was outproducing me by about 75%?!?!
