Aliens 0.3.99

[Kuro]

Anyone play post July patch? Alien hate seems insane and doesn't stop after triggering mission control retaliation at 120. I'm only in year 2038, but the past 5 in game years the Aliens would keep destroying my shipyards and mines, I would rebuild then Aliens come in sometime during the construction to blow it up again. Haven't won ship fights since they started to field their dreadnought in 2037. At this points its just MC whack a mole until I get better techs researched. It's really annoying since it looks like Ops Centers and Nanofactories gives more hate points so Aliens target those first. So your Mercury mines are ♥♥♥♥♥♥. then they target Mars/Ceres randomly so your resources are also ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Getting really hard to even build ships now. I have to spam like a dozen shipyards so the few surviving ones can make ships or have the habs half filled.

[lemurs2]

I have been using the betas since ~January and, yeah, the aggro is real.
I almost folded under the pressure, but I am playing a game now that I am not going to win in 2042 or 43... more like 2050+.
But, I am surviving, I built a cheap ship building station at Mars which I have never done and rushed Burner and Pharos (Pharos ended up a waste of time, you would think I would know better by now) and corvettes with Burner and slush hydrogen and 1 Harlequin missile are defending all 3 main locations.

My problem is that the Human AI is about 1000 times better and I only have 3 stations at Mercury because the aI grabbed the rest of the spots. So, I built 5 stations at Venus, but I do not have a shipyard there so they are getting blown up regularly.

[corisai]

Yes, devs fixed aliens being completely passive. Dunno why you expected turtle to be a real strategy and not AI failure.

[lemurs2]

Okay, I do not have it stabilized. Aliens are destroying one or two bases per month which is unsustainable. Do not know what to do.

[Kuro]

Originally posted by lemurs2:

Okay, I do not have it stabilized. Aliens are destroying one or two bases per month which is unsustainable. Do not know what to do.

I'm Mid-2040 and just unlocked ring habs. They stopped destroying 1-2 habs every month to about 1 every 3 months. I was at MC 120-140 since 2033 because of alien hate and rebuilding but once i dropped to 80 MC for a while in early 2040 due to them wiping out my fleet and half my mercury and all my earth habs they slowed down the destruction. Not sure if they helps, will keep going to see.

[lemurs2]

I am in mid 2033 or 34 I am losing count. I have ~200Mc cause I really push that, but I had three fleets at Mars, Earth and Mercury but the Protectorate(!!!) destroyed my Mars fleet and station.
Needless to say I destroyed their shipyard and ships at Earth and spit on their graves.

That is another change, I have never been attacked by a Human AI fleet before the new beta.

[Galroche]

Originally posted by lemurs2:

I am in mid 2033 or 34 I am losing count. I have ~200Mc cause I really push that, but I had three fleets at Mars, Earth and Mercury but the Protectorate(!!!) destroyed my Mars fleet and station.
Needless to say I destroyed their shipyard and ships at Earth and spit on their graves.

That is another change, I have never been attacked by a Human AI fleet before the new beta.

yeah human AI have become somewhat a bit more competent. i tried to be roleplay and be nice with the resistance in the current game by not blocking them and trading them some tech, and they ended up being able to kick back alien fleet from earth orbit and get rid of all servants station.

not a bad deal to have alien more agressive if in the futur human AI keep getting better, that will make the game a bit less like 'me alone vs the universe'

[lemurs2]

Yeah, you are correct there,

[Kuro]

Yea, I love the human AI improvement, except in my current game they do jack against the Aliens in space, they very effective in controlling Servants and Protectorate in Earth and Space though. Pretty much impossible for Protectorate to complete their mission since the other AI factions have earth orbit filled.

Edit: This is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ they will destroy any mine/station around Jupiter so you cant even expand past asteroids now without being able to destroy alien fleets unless you do the early Jovian rush cheese. Time to turtle for tech