Newbie game advice needed ?

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Im playing as vasuri against a single tec medium  ai but am constanstly in stalemate .Ive researched all the important trees but doesnt make any difference to my situration.It takes every ship ive got just to take out one of their starbases and the ai got sb on every planet.My eco is stagnent and is not inproving.

Heres the save game in the link below (soose dip v1.2)

 

http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=640405

 

Please give some advice as ive been playing this game for hours and am not getting anywhere.

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Tried to lad your save but I'm getting invalid save file in game.

 

Make sure you have collect resource upgrades for your capital ships. It helps with vasari economy.

Also don't fight near AI's SB. While you are fighting his fleet you can build your own SB in his gravity well. Watch out for his ogrows though and misile barage on marza if they are lvl 6. Make sure u have some overseers as well to heal your ships.

Another thing is AI's dont cope well against bomber spam so you can spam lets say 75+ bombers and first kill his caps then support structures and in the end SB. Make sure you have some fleet to kill his frigates and fighters.

If you have solid position and AI doesn't advance you can build 1 or 2 kosutras to disable support structures in gravity well. Disable lasts for 4 min..... I think. 

You can retreat your fleet 1 phase jump back and when AI attacks jump back in to destroy his fleet ( you do need phase jump inhibitor for that).Egg gravity bomb ability is excellent for this type of warfare }:) Upgraded SB would help with that as well. Once AI's fleet is destroyed is should be easy. 

Heavy cruisers absolutely eat star bases and vasari can repair themselves ...... If you dont wan't to use bombers or for some reason they die too soon.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Last I checked, Kostura disable lasts 3 minutes.

Definitely either go with mass bombers or your own SB. Set your fleet's attack range to "Hold Position" or "Local Area" so that they don't go running off against the enemy SB.

If you do go ahead with building your own SB, you'll definitely want to put in at least the first weapons upgrade to give it the anti-structure attack (adding Phase Missiles with the second upgrade will also help if there is an AI fleet hanging around, but the last upgrade - the +20% damage one - is of questionable value). Frontal Deflector Shield will also do well against enemy SBs.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Do sb use up fleet supply ?

 

What does refinery quota mean in the crystal/metal ext description ?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

SB don't use fleet supply

Refeinery quota means how many refineries can draw from 1 resource extractor

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Refineries affect the gravity well that they're in, and all directly adjacent gravity wells, drawing income from all extractors there that you control.

 

E.g. if a map is set up as A-B-C-D and you have a refinery at planet C, it will affect planets B and D too since they are directly adjacent.