Re: Mine Follies
I never believed in mines, although the computer seem to use them sometimes... I never have problems with the AI overrunning my positions. Its not hard to defeat them, dunno why I keep hearing all these AI beating people. I found the AI sometimes sits there and never sends his 20 ships grouped into my space at all... BTW I usually start the first 20 turns of my game with less than 5 ships if that, unless I meet another race. I only keep the edges of my empire guarded with ships. I also found it is stupid to build weapons platforms.They are a big waste of resources. I just build ships, lots and lots of them, the bigger the better. I found near the middle to end games, computer's intelligence attacks get rediculous, and they are too effective, and usually overrun my counter intelligence. I think that needs to be balanced a bit. I am usually tempted to just send in a star destroyer and blow up their home systems when they sabotage me.
btw, heres a trick, build about 20 ships and park them at your warp point into your empire
The computer doesn't seem to send any ships your way if there is no path to your empire. Another thing is, colonize ALL of your system's planets, even if they are just tiny ones. It seems when there is nothing to colonize the computer doesn't want to come to you at all. If you are low on resources, build ships with boarding parties that can lower the computer's shields in a hurry. Start using the computer's own ships against him. I had the warp point to my empire guarded by ONE ship with boarding capabilities, and I would constantly snag any computer's ships that came close, then the ship would be repaired and used to guard my system.
Usually by mid to end game I have warp point manipulation capability and I have made all my systems accessable within one jump. so I can mobilize my forces extreemly fast.
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