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Phoenix-D · #1 January 24th, 2002, 07:41 PM

"I am personally (given my newness to actually playing SEIV - on turn 32 of my second game) extremely surprised as to the size of the fleet - 300 ships?? I presume these are all dinky types?"

Not always. In one game my warp nexus defenses bLasted at least that many AI *dreadnaughts* into gas. Without loosing a unit

Favorable rate of exchange indeed..not all at once fortuntely, but one of my allies had over 500 ships; not all dinky by any means.

Phoenix-D

tesco samoa · #2 January 26th, 2002, 07:05 PM

when you say 2nd game do you mean you actually finished a game ??

Growltigga · #3 January 29th, 2002, 02:08 AM

I did finish a game, or more like I was finished off by a game.

On my first game, I saw a post somewhere here that advised maxxing all the AI benefits to get a challenging game and then played on a small quadrant - the Amon'Krie and Xi'Chung were in systems pretty much adjacent to my own and I got whomped pretty sharpish I can tell you.

Second game is going well thank you

mac5732 · #4 January 28th, 2002, 05:49 PM

TS, I assume that this is a modded game, I've never seen these large of fleets in the original game.

just some ideas mac

tesco samoa · #5 January 28th, 2002, 07:05 PM

We increase units and ships to 5000.

And build build build.

Isn't this the norm out their.

Were talking a 10 planet start.

If it was 1 planet then the ship sizes would be down to about 60 to 80 ships at this point in the game.

3 planets then about at least 100 ships.

Are you saying that you do not build huge fleets????

Were talking Cruisers down here. It is still early in the game.

Growltigga · #6 January 28th, 2002, 07:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by tesco samoa:
If it was 1 planet then the ship sizes would be down to about 60 to 80 ships at this point in the game.

ah, that puts things into perspective

mac5732 · #7 January 28th, 2002, 08:30 PM

I usually play 1 or 3 planets, large, high AI, med bonus, but never tried the 10 planet option yet, but in my games my fleets, later in the game, run 15-25 ships, the AI fleets, I have seen up to 30 but usually no more, most of the time in the 20 range and then they usually split up. This is original, un-modded. In hot seat that I play, the human fleets tend to be bigger but not the AI's, than's one reason I can't wait for the gold, hoping for larger AI fleets and planet invasions by AI (I know, I Know, some of the mods already do this) Just never had time to download a mod yet, another reason waiting for gold, most of them are in it, at least that's what i've heard.

just some ideas mac