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Since today is father-day (?) i wont be able up my empire before evening, sry.

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Oh well im sorry, i wasnt able to up my empire today. Since i go to a lanparty tomorrow, i doubt i will be able to get it ready until saturday evening. Im -really- sorry.

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Not a problem, maybe luke_slovakian can still join then.

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I could play twice. I figure two empires under my control are about equal to one competent empire.

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No, no that's ok. The Galactic Council will look out for you. Just petition the council if you need help.

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Erm... So are you requesting, or are you requesting to request? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif

Hmm... that shouldn't have happened if a sector cloak was active. The monsters shouldn't be able to see your ships in that sector either. Otherwise, it becomes quite possible to glass their HW, which is definitely not intended to be a possibility. Or did the monsters send something out to intercept your fleet?

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Monster Sensors see through any cloak in the game, including Monster Cloaks. While glassing the homeworlds shouldn't be possible, I don't like the idea of those sectors becoming safe havens for everyone who can get to them. For human-played monsters, adding a meaningless cloaking ability to every monster hull, like psychic level 1 without any accompanying EM active or EM passive, would allow the player to choose whether to initiate combat in those sectors. Unfortunately the AI will never cloak bases, so AI controlled monsters either need an agreement by the players to not try glassing monster homeworlds or they need a better sector cloak.

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I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll make this the first motion placed before the council after the games starts. I'll get back to you with the answer.

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Do any of you guys know of a good cure for swarms of monster drones? I'm getting manhandled by the computer and its embarrasing.

I've tried everything I could think of. Its around turn 100 of my game and a swarm of 144 bee-shaped drones showed up at a warp point, kamikazed its way through 83 satellites (losing about 8 drones), then flew across the system into my home system in a single turn. Once there they shrugged off a 60 frigate fleet (equipped with temperal combat sensors 2 and a 5% fleet bonus) losing about 65 drones. Then they leveled one my colonies along with its 300 orbital figthers losing another 8 drones. Point defense guns can't target them, standard weapons can't hit them, and fighters are outrageously vulnerable to ramming. With a combat speed of 9 the drones can move from beyond my range (or so far away they are impossible to hit) and ram in a single turn. How can I deal with them?

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If you read this Likev2k5, get your empire uploaded. We can start as soon as you do.