Been no Posts for a while, so here's the (as I remember) status of my current Single Player game.
Note : The Abbai AI continues to cause unexplained RCEs at odd times, fortuntly they aren't in the current game.
Highest AI level, Highest AI bonus.
I'm the Gaim and I control a 25 system section of a large map. There are 8 jump points out of this region, the Vree or Centuri lie on the other side of most of these. Each jump point is guarded by 6 Heavy Cruisers (5 Particle Concentrators + PD), 2 Heavy Carriers (180 Medium Fighters (Particle Guns) each, Packet Torpedoes, PD), 4 Escort sized Assualt ships (2 Gaim Boarding Parties each) and 1 Medium Repair vessel (loaded with Packet Torpedoes). I have close to 40 planetary ship yards, over 130 star-base mounted ship yards and have a stock pile of over 3 million Minerals so I could build one massive navy in a hurry if I needed to. To keep happiness up, every one of my planets has 100 Light Infantry - the main reason why I have more units than most the AIs put together.
I'm currently rated as number 5 out of the 9 remaining empires (the Raiders have bought life to my O2 worlds
, no neutrals).
The LLort are the largest empire with over 40 systems.
The Centuri have the largest Navy (by quite a margin) - they have 500 ships in service. They have been launching Intel attacks on me for ages, but now that I've gotten some decent intel buildings up and running they aren't getting through. Takes the computer a couple of minutes to process the Centauri's turn
I know that the Centauri and Vree have at least Dreadnought hulls but they have shown no sign of having the advanced armors yet (mmm, Assault ships).
To speed up turn times I'm contemplating building an exploration force and culling that Centauri fleet a little
. I figure half a dozen BaseShip sized vessels should do the trick.