Thrawn's Revenge

Imperial Civil War [Empire at War] => Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback => Topic started by: StarLordX on January 01, 2015, 06:21:00 PM

Title: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: StarLordX on January 01, 2015, 06:21:00 PM
Throughout my playthrough of vanilla EaW and FOC, the enemy A.I., regardless of whatever difficulty I choose, might have an abnormally large number of ships that number in the hundreds (capital ships, cruisers, corvettes, etc.), in which they would continuously spam during a space battle (as exemplified with the continuous Imperial ship spam over Shola during the Zann Consortium campaign), therefore prolonging it (and in the worst case, wear your units out). If the same thing applied in this mod, that could result in a worst case scenario.
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: Pali on January 02, 2015, 05:16:02 AM
Never been a problem for me in ICW.
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: tlmiller on January 02, 2015, 02:09:38 PM
I've definitely seen it in ICW, but mostly only near the end of the game.  NR ecspecially will spam with fleets of 100 sacheen and such.
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: defender on January 02, 2015, 11:56:14 PM
I see it in ICW as well, most of it is duable though exept when the NR launches 30 to 40 bothan crusiers at you. they seriously need to be nerfed
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: Darth Stalin on January 03, 2015, 04:17:59 PM
Never in any mod or vanilla game (either EaW or FoC) I had a problem with "spamming" AI ships.
When playing previous version of the mod, I had that problem with EotH fleets... but found a solution in proper composition of my fleet.

Need to say, that I've increased the pop cap for space battles to ~100 or even 140, so there really was a lot of AI "spam" to kill...  8=)

But nevertheless, such a "spam" is never a problem; just a nuisance...  ;D
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: Big Bantha on February 27, 2015, 11:12:58 AM
I've had a similar problem, but not in battle: If the enemy want's a planet, they will rush it with MANY small groups of ships (i.e. tons of "packets" that attack one at a time instead of all at once), then attempt finish it off with 6 capitals and a horde of heavy cruisers.
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: jordanthejq12 on February 27, 2015, 06:43:57 PM
That tactic would work reasonably well in real life. Not so much in a game where your ships automatically repair and restock between battles.
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: Katarnstar on July 16, 2015, 11:48:54 AM
I'll tell you about annoyances, when the EotH attacked me at one of my planets with over 227 Decimator-class Cruisers, just Decimators. I couldn't auto resolve as I would loss anything in orbit so had to play manually, it took me over 30 mins to win and the game crashed once. Still, its a brilliant mod.
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: Pali on July 16, 2015, 09:25:08 PM
Better than them sending 100 waves of 2 ships at you, trust me.  Still can't auto resolve because somehow they'll kill a Star Destroyer before dying.
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: Revan0123 on July 17, 2015, 06:32:33 AM
Better than them sending 100 waves of 2 ships at you, trust me.  Still can't auto resolve because somehow they'll kill a Star Destroyer before dying.
Don't ya just hate the auto-resolve of this game? :P
Title: Re: Endless Ship Spam (A.I.)
Post by: Mat8876 on July 17, 2015, 01:02:27 PM
Arguably the worst "feature" of the game especially after the freeze bug has been fixed.