The Galactic Invasion 2: Replacement Player Needed

[CovertJaguar]

Welcome to the game.

[mastermindkar]

Happy to be aboard. Imperator, the image mod torrent worked perfectly.

[douglas]

The Ironseed Ascendancy is ready to hunt .

A few highlights of my empire design:
As required, Intelligence is 50% and I took Naturalists.
Berzerkers culture, of course, along with max aggressiveness/defensiveness
Max Political Savvy (for when the monsters meet)
Max Construction Aptitude

Natural Merchants (with no expansion, every facility counts)
Trans-Dimensional
Mechanoids, Psionic Clairsentience, and all Religious Ethos (I did some testing, these are the only racial techs that work at all with monsters. I will not research them unless it turns out the monsters need toughening)

For points to pay for all those racial tech traits:
Minimum Mining, Farming, and Refining Aptitudes (resources are never a problem for monsters)
Minimum Maintenance Aptitude (even more negative maintenance, plus some points to keep more options for toughening the monsters open)
Endemic Wastefulness (with quantum reactors inherent in the hulls, who cares?)

Choleric happiness type because it looked very good by the numbers (including reaction to wars), though I'm not quite sure how a positive natural decrease works (become more angry or more jubilant, depending?), but it should be overwhelmed by the 22 bases + ships I'll have over every planet anyway.

[CovertJaguar]

Looks good, Douglas.

EDIT: Should we ask Fyron for a forum on SpaceEmpires.net? The PBW forum leaves much to be desired. I'm sure he'd give us one if we asked. The Galactic Council should have somewhere to meet.

[Fyron]

CovertJaguar said:
EDIT: Should we ask Fyron for a forum on SpaceEmpires.net? The PBW forum leaves much to be desired. I'm sure he'd give us one if we asked. The Galactic Council should have somewhere to meet.

Erm... So are you requesting, or are you requesting to request?

CovertJaguar said:
...or unlucky enough fly a fleet over it. I did that in the last game. Lost the entire fleet, but I knew where the monster homeworld was after that.

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?

[douglas]

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.

[CovertJaguar]

Imperator Fyron said:

Erm... So are you requesting, or are you requesting to request?

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.

[mastermindkar]

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?

[CovertJaguar]

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