Ahh 3 front war somebody please help me and give me advice for victory

Atrocities · #1 December 30th, 2000, 05:03 AM

Surrender.

Tomgs · #2 December 30th, 2000, 07:16 AM

Speaking of a multi front war I tried to play in a large cluster galaxy. Is there a bug with cluster galaxies set on large? I got an nine system galaxy with 16 races. that was a very eventful place. My home system was just me but almost all the other systems had 2 races. I took the first two systems by just pumping out warships and just researching weapons and ships. I went back and generated a few more large cluster galaxies and none of them were as big as a medium galaxy is this a bug?

God Emperor · #3 December 30th, 2000, 09:45 AM

JJPHAT, what are your current tech levels? (eg shields, armour, missiles, ship size, beams/projectiles, fighters). What sort of force (fleet size) are each of the other computer players using.
One trick I used in the mid stage of a game when I was attacked by three computer players (who were each fielding fleets containing no more than four ships) was to convert my front line transports into satellite/fighter carriers (eg small transports were given two satellite and fighter bays each, med transports were given 5 of each). The conVersions only took one turn to do and meant that I could deploy all of my defensive satellites and fighters into agressive combat. This strategy served well until I was able to deploy sufficient carriers and capital ships.
In terms of who you should go after, I believe that it is a trade off between who is the weakest vs who you have the most number of shipyards near (ie logistics/ length of supply line).
Goodluck...

Resident Alien · #4 December 31st, 2000, 02:41 AM

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Originally posted by Tomgs:
Speaking of a multi front war I tried to play in a large cluster galaxy. Is there a bug with cluster galaxies set on large? I got an nine system galaxy with 16 races. that was a very eventful place. My home system was just me but almost all the other systems had 2 races. I took the first two systems by just pumping out warships and just researching weapons and ships. I went back and generated a few more large cluster galaxies and none of them were as big as a medium galaxy is this a bug?

I think there is a bug. Compare the map generated to Cluster on Medium and it's clear that just one little cluster group of systems is generated at Large. It should have many Groups linked to each other by long warp line.

[This message has been edited by Resident Alien (edited 30 December 2000).]

Puke · #5 December 30th, 2000, 11:01 PM

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Originally posted by Resident Alien:
I think there is a bug. Compare the map generated to Cluster on Medium and it's clear that just one little cluster group of systems is generated at Large. It should have many Groups linked to each other by long warp line.

umm, yes and no. large cluster galaxies work fine if you dont mess with the maximum systems value in the settings.txt however once you crank it up to a number like 250 or so, many of the quadrant types get screwy when you generate them as 'large,' especially clusters which appearently cant compute where to place all the systems. im not sure where the threshold number is, but try lowering what you have back to 100 and see if the quadrant looks normal again.

Joda · #6 December 31st, 2000, 03:16 AM

* Defend strategical warp points on the far side, otherwise your ships will end up right next to the enemy ships in combat and take alot of dammage early.

* Use tactical combat mode rather than strategic (the AI is stupid when it comes to combat).

* I STRONGLY second using missiles and backing away from your enemy.

* If one of your enemies are close to you and not too powerfull, wipe out their planetary defenses but not the pop. and the facilities, and leave enough ships at each planet to "defend" it against enemy ships. This way you blockade their planets and thus cut their production of resources. If you do this to enough of his planets and demand his surrender he will budge...sooner or later. And when he does YOU get the remaining worlds. If you don't have enough ships just wipe out the smaller planets (less pop./facilities, not physical size) and just blockade his homeworld(s) and heavy resource producing worlds. Again, try to defend the warppoint into those systems (on the far side

) so you don't have to leave a mult-ship fleet at every planet.

By taking over my enimies in this fasion I have in my current (and previous) game(s) grown MANY times stronger than the remaining enemy empires. It's just too easy to win after you have conquered the first one-two enemies.

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dmm · #7 January 3rd, 2001, 12:33 AM

If your ships are way outclassed, then try to run in close and ram the enemy. Since the vagaries of SEIV physics do not allow retreats, it isn't even a question of morale or patriotism -- your crews can die in the ramming and possibly inflict grave harm on the enemy, or they can try to fight a hopeless battle and let the enemy wipe them out for free.