ok what am i going to do - the vasari patch is out and ive got a game to finish. I'm actually thinking of surrendering - im a little over 9 hours into the game now but i just cant advance - and ive been playing sins since the beginning , this is the first time ive had a game of rebellion thats stalemated and im wondering if there are any tactics for advent i might be unaware of they are my least played side and i just started a game last week while waiting for vasari
setting - easy to picture cause i made it in the ingame map creator
10 Players
each player started with the usual terran an astroid + volcanic or ice and i made sure it was even and all players got an ice, an asteroid & a dwarf planet as well.
map was set to phase lane legenth and liklehood high so each player has two ways into their starting "cluster"
So imagine a map with 10 clusers of planes all around the outide
5 astroid + 5 dwarf closer to the sun
closer in i swpaned 5 desert +- so all desert end up with two players battleing for it
further in 10 pirates (so yes each desert connected to two pirate)
further in close to the star a destert,2 volcanic 3 dwarf 4 astroid and 5 dead astroids
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best game ive played as advent ever in any of the sins - i started off by building colony capital ship first and then a second and was expanding fast in all directions took several dwarfs and astroids in enemy territory and then built two radiance battleships (both still allove and level 10's now) - Once titans got built it all changed i could not hold two fronts at the same time with only a loyalist tian level 5 (their titans 4 and 3) and my 6 caps 0- i lose both my colony caps and seveal outer systems and was pushed further back and i was gong to lose as a tec had used TAR and passed though the pirates and attacked my astroid and dwarf beside the desert - he only had 4 caps and no titan but i had pulled my fleet back to deal with the two advent - Losing on all fronts and with my titan on 18% hull i pulled my entire fleet back to my homeworld - i left the remaining 5 worlds to the AI to take and i dug in at my homrworld about 4 hours later (i spent all that time harassing the ai with my titan and 4 caps getting their XP up)i had managed to get a bit more research into fleet capacity so i built 3 more caps and then a few more (when you have no money you cant waste money on frigates because they get destroyed my caps dont)
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As it is now 9 players are still alive all AI are on hard and im bordering with 1 advent rebel and 1 advent loyalist
its a ffa with teams off - at this stage all players have level 9 or 10 titan
any attempt to advance on one ai results an attack by the other AI with its titan - i had the most success when i pushed back the AI attack and destroyed their titan - i sent my titan to my other border where a level 10 titan had just landed and i dispatched all 14 of my cap ships to attack the AI who had lost their titan but because of the map every single ai system is maxed out on tactical slots so i was forced to pull back after their titan showed up
i need my starbases on max health to help beat back the constant attacks so i cant put the culture thing on any of my sarbases except for 1 so with my 16 research structures i barely have any room for culture structures so i cant even try and attck enemy with that and im not not a big advent player - i find their titan is fantastic for taking enemy worlds just jump in take the world scrap it and jump out - again and again and again forcing your enemy to spend loadds upgrading the planet again
Im making 18 credits a second
because of a very clever move by a distant rebel advent he managed to land in one of my systems after he colinised a pirate that had been novalithed which means im now fighting on 3 fronts - 3 titans - i haven't lost any systems in over an hour - im dug in im and im building up money now - might only be making a little - have 12k now but just cant decide how best to spend/attack i an monitoring the map using the advent view system ability and i know that allot of the time my neighering AI players move their titans away from my borders do fight back attacks on their other fronts but any advance i dont have time to finish taking a system before the titan returns and normally since ive pulled forces away to launch the attack then get attacked at whatever system i pulled defenders away from
any suggestions or should i just update and go to my one true love - the vasari ? - the thing is i dont see myself getting this excited to play as advent again so i do want to quit it - oh ok now ive decided to go back to it .... em so this post was kinda pointless i think *sigh* ok im going to post it anyway since i typed it all up
wait ye - ok question for you all - have you come accross any stalemates - ive seen a few stalemates in AI vs AI combat with me as the observer but ive never in all the years of sins come up against a map/battle this hard