Ghost signal...

[Allan Lugia]

I will just say that i feel a little... crushed right now.. The contingency is atm floating around with a wooping 89k fleet... x the number of planets they have "secured"...
i myself have around 50k.
on their "main" Planets they have 147k fleet waiting....

they did sadly awaken in my backyard turning everything i had into a battlezone.. witch sadly heavily affect my income of resources...
but what really hurts is that even tho i have 2 fallen empires around me, and a strong empire which all 3 can field a fleet of around 200k each... None of them seems to be reacting to the trouble...
i have befriended 2 strong empires... one is mentioned earlier... the other "was" about my size...

But i have no help at all... and that is really frustrating..
but it's getting better... one of the fallen empires are in constant war with my "superior" friend..
they also uses my planets as their bombing zones.. leaving me kinda defenceless against this robotic empire.. and themselves.
and i am strong... but this is simply to much!...

and if that isn't enough... i have completed different empire breathing down my back, constantly claiming my planets....

I really do feel that despite me being alive i have NO chance of survival..
I can't grow under all these issues, and are sadly prepared to call it the game...

but this is insane.... and i don't know what to do... i really feel overwhelmed at this point.
and i would like to comment that i think the

Ghost signal Is way to strong!.

[cooltv27]

the AI is absurdly bad at reacting to threats that are not the player. it sometimes feels like the AI is hard coded to consider the player a larger threat than anything else.
also the AI is supposed to become much less hostile when a crisis is happening because, well, theres kinda a bigger threat than another normal empire

I generally avoid making defensive pacts with the AI because, without fail, every defensive pact I make gets me dragged into a war with an FE that I am in no way ready to fight. and because the AI targets the player first, I always end up getting smashed even though im not the one they are mad at

[Paradox Engine]

Personalty in this situation i would fortify to the best i can, refusing to attack the contingency unless prompted, become isolationist (Friends or attempted Friends to all, allied to none) and hope for the best in the years to come.

[Botji]

I dont think the AI instantly gets the max buff and priority to fight the crisises but after a while everyone has like +200 opinion modifier due to crisis and the AI doesnt seem to do anything else but fight the crisis. They can just be very slow to get going.. and sometimes they take year long breaks not doing much at all before suddenly just setting off with their fleets again to smash against the crisis.

So I would try to bunker up and do anything and everything you can to increase your fleet to a point where you can beat their ~90k attack fleets, even if it means converting all your labs/unity buildings to energy and mineral production to fund it because sooner or later the other nearby AIs will throw their crap at the crisis, you just have to survive long enough to join them then.

[Demon of Razgriz]

Here is a tip for fighting the Contingency. Stack up as many shields as you possibly can on your ships and use weapons that penetrate both shields and armor (like Arc Emitters or Cloud Lightning). I found this out when they spawned in my Dyson Sphere system and I had to get it back asap.

[Allan Lugia]

As i turned out i did most of what you people suggested.. i lost over half of my area in the process.. the fallen empire awakened, then they meet the contingency through bad luck..
actually both fallen empire did that. and they lost thier fleets...
so i desided, that i neede to move towards north...
the contingency started in south and in west of the galaxy, using every wormhole they could to invade me..
anyway i started a war with one of the fallen, and by luck gained all thier tech.. so fully upgraded shields and armor... and soon after i got the galaxy defender against crisis.

now i where able to defend myself against the Con´s medium fleet size... i had to go over my cap to do that, but instead of losing an entire fleet each battle, i now only lost 1/3 of it..
i still lost the battle to Con´s fleetpower if they where around 40k higher than mine...


it was a long battle of resourses, only due to the fallens planets and his space station i somehow manage to stay on top of it, that and another 1/4 ring world i had achived...

at this houer i had moved my capital away form the Con´s constant attack.. to the 1/4 ringworld.. and it had multiple smaller races living onto them...
then suddenly one of these raised to the space era... and took over my capital... really wierd... and once more my capital where in danger+ all my sectors dissapered... It where a huge chaos... and my resourses where dropping faster than i could collect... my fleets still in war with the Con´s from time to time...
at this point i where sweating....
then federations started to happen... and since i had the strongest fleetpower at this time. everyone joined my fleet power... we now had equal power to the Con´s defending fleets... and i took the oppotunity to strike... after a few hundred years a war that had lasted nearly 1000 years where at its breakpoint.. the galaxy on the winning side..

now i´m batteling the survivors. trying to gain old friends back, but due to some.... wierd federations connections... every empire kinda refuses to be my friend... and each federation is as strong as i am.... or close... it is exiting... i do have a full acesion peck atm... and my latest battle clearly indicates that i am stronger if i´m carefull. Winning a fight against the strongest fleet in the galaxy besides mine..
but the resourses, speciel the Gems is really hard to harvest fast enough to gain a bigger fleet. maybe there is something i miss?

anyway sry the long post, but i just wanted to share the resoult. "Keyword to beat Contingecy is Federation"...

[Meewec]

Originally posted by LeadGen:

at this houer i had moved my capital away form the Con´s constant attack.. to the 1/4 ringworld.. and it had multiple smaller races living onto them...
then suddenly one of these raised to the space era... and took over my capital... really wierd... and once more my capital where in danger+ all my sectors dissapered... It where a huge chaos... and my resourses where dropping faster than i could collect... my fleets still in war with the Con´s from time to time...
at this point i where sweating....

yeah, species rising up to space gives them control of the station unlike pre-2.0 where the system was shared(which was kinda messy). as for sectors dissappearing that happens when your capital is lost. just pause and remake them.

bet you find the result of this war much more satisfying than saying "this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" and then chucking the game in the garbage

[H11DN-D4NG3R]

Btw. Ghost signal is Harmless against non robotic things. Also, if you have sapient combat systems. Downgrade them so you do not take A strong debuff. Btw. The fleet on there planets Wont refill. So if you keep chipping away at it, it will die. I have won against my con by using corvetts with thorp and phaser.
On a reminder if you face the contingecy later games if you wont make it. If you kill there first 2 fleets, it take some time before they send out more, giving you time to build up and hit their planets. Still you should have around 160 fleet cap. By the default time for any crisis to start. Also if you have supremancy, use the hit and run, or whatever the thing that gives +20% retreat chance.

(My game was on a 1.0 strenght. With is around a 300k defense fleet for there planets. With 2 of them spawning in my empire.)