AI completely ignoring literally every crisis I've faced.

[LykosNychi]

This is getting old.

I love Stellaris, and I really want to play out some of these epic "oh ♥♥♥♥ everyone fight the new kid on the block" moments.

But out of 8 games so far, the Crisis always shows up while everyon has (at MOST) a 25k fleet.

Every single AI then spends decades completely ignoring the crisis.

In one of my single player games, the Unbidden ran around for about 2 centuries before I finally got through the closed borders and attacked them.

The Unbidden are currently able to muster a fleet of close to 2 million, whereas nobody else can sustain anything even remotely similiar.


The Prethoryn are even worse. They snowball so hard, and always show up at a time when there is no possible way of defending against their 80k fleets. 80k fleets which usually move around in triples. It's absurd, not particularily fun, and really boring when the AI all stand by and let the world burn.


And before you tell me to disable crises, I can already conquer the galaxy solo without a crisis. But then the crisis just buttsmashes everything.

[Ryvucz]

This is one of the main reasons I stopped playing. Their mid to late game is completely broken and the AI is just too stupid.

[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by Ryvucz:

This is one of the main reasons I stopped playing. Their mid to late game is completely broken and the AI is just too stupid.

I was about the 2nd most militarily powerful empire in the galaxy (800 stars)

The Prethoryn came in with about 10 fleets of 80k each.

I had one fleet of about 23k.

I /used/ to be the black empire in the bottom.

This took about 10 years to happen. There was nothing I could do, and all the AI are sitting on their thumbs ignoring it.
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[fmalfeas]

I got to see even sillier. The Prethoryn Scourge showed up literally 2 stars away from an Awakened Jingoistic Reclaimer who wasn't currently at war with anyone. And I mean 2 stars from his core systems.

You'd think this would mean that awakened empire fleet would fire up the jumpdrives and smash those bugs.

NO.

Instead, he /declares war on ME/. And begins the long jump chain to the other side of the galaxy, where I am. I guess because my fleet was only 130k, and I had a Dyson Sphere running. (I built the stupid thing specifically so I could pay the upkeep to finally enlarge the fleet).

I'm bracing for his invasion, repelling any of his pathetic minions that tried to help him early...and then suddenly, he crumbles. Because the bloody scourge ate his worlds.

[Ryvucz]

I had the Unbidden show up, and instead of dealing with the anchors, they kept going to the portal, sit there and lose ships.

They had plenty of ships to take care of it, but most of them were too busy killing one another or just losing ships by trying to attack the portal when anchors were still active.

[mcsproot]

They claim to know about it.

They claim they fix it in most patches.

They're claiming 1.8 will fix it.

[LykosNychi]

I didn't even bother sticking around for the Sentinels on this one, just straight up abandoned save.

Sucks, because it was an amazing save until that.

[Shahadem]

The "End Game Criseses" happen in the mid game instead of the end game. That's the major problem. They should occur at the actual end game instead of during the mid game feudal states phase. The trigger should only start after year 2370 or later.

[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

The "End Game Criseses" happen in the mid game instead of the end game. That's the major problem. They should occur at the actual end game instead of during the mid game feudal states phase. The trigger should only start after year 2370 or later.

I'd say a lot later than that.

The other isse is that it scales to galaxy size.


Which means that if you have a low number of habitable planets, you're utterly screwed.