Birth of the Federation

Few things to comment on. The asteroid outpost is available at the beginning on t1 games, even though you need level 3 research for it. I find that ship building is way too easy. I played a 90 turn t1 game as rom and used my 27 warbirds to kill 86 dom fast attack. Research is very very fast. So fast...

ZeroChance wrote: - however I'm not such a fan of the structures needing to be built on the first turn of a T5 game in the home system.

What do you mean by this?

Ok, I just met orion.

Ok, tried fed again this time knowing where all the minors are and not wasting precious resources in colonizing. Turn 117 I have popped vulcan, benzar, andor, tellor, orion and risa. My retire line is way way ahead of everyone else. I haven't met any other major on purpose and they havent sent scout...

I'd be interested tethys. I'm in the pacific timezone and can play both mp and sp. Availability to be determined.

First of all, I want to congratulate Tethys for making the final and for a good game. Abit of bad luck in the placement for dom as we ended up being only 2 square from each other. I also got the lions share of the demands, around 30k or so. Being so close, my intel attack was quite good and Tethys s...

That was on hard setting. Try a practice game on impossible setting.

I encountered the 'diplomacy bug' yesterday while playing udm where rom offerered me a non-aggression and it appeared twice in diplomatic screen. I kept accepting and captured a screenshot of the outcome: I think this is only the 2nd time I encountered this bug since I first mentioned it., so it doe...

The way my practice games have gone, I might be beaten by the ai. 8) 8) 8) Remember, it's on impossible setting and few minor. I tried 2 practice single games and both times the ai swarmed me whenever I left my space. Plus the ai makes alot of ships on impossible. So, no need to worry about me. Worr...

I thought it was a combination of hull and shields whether or not a ship is destroyed by orbs.

Those smaller ships can't bomb a major, quite useless to make, imho.

Finally met card turn 178 as dom. They have 7 systems vs my 18. 88 to 11 my military, 78 to 21 economy, and 52 to 47 my research to his. Neither of us has any minor.

Without ram, card just doesn't have the torp power to compete with dom/rom/fed.

As much as I sympathize with rf, my first comment after our game was how it was a shame the races r so unbalanced because of ram, I'm not convinced changing other races' ship stats just to counter the ram of card is the answer. I think in vanilla it (ram) wasn't an issue as you could kill a ramming ...

Actually, I meant you can't really program tactics, ie, when to move your fleet, what ships to move, when to member, when to affil, when to do everything really. Those things come with experience and learning from your failures. I was hoping you could program the ai to actually build ships. Why does...