Grey Tempest OP?

[Vik]

I opened up the L-Gates and the Grey Tempest is currently wrecking everybody. No other empire besides fallen empires have better fleets than me but it still takes 2 of mine to destroy one of theirs. Makes my current game not worth playing when I see my neighbors with half their territory missing.

[Fartikus]

yea its great how tempest doesn't just disable starbases and outposts, tempest actually blows them up and revokes systems to unclaimed status.

[Holylin]

Well now you have learned something.
Not every path should be treaded by a young race, sometimes you need to majure to be able to face the horrors that are out there !

But now you know and can open it later :)

[Sabaithal]

Kind of wish there were a warning before you open pandoras box (L-gates). Their fleets are extremely hard to combat without endgame tech and resources. With endgame tech and resources they aren't so bad. Not nearly as bad as the crisis.......Imma totally sic the tempest on the prethoryns the next time they show up.

[Vik]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Kind of wish there were a warning before you open pandoras box (L-gates). Their fleets are extremely hard to combat without endgame tech and resources. With endgame tech and resources they aren't so bad. Not nearly as bad as the crisis.......Imma totally sic the tempest on the prethoryns the next time they show up.

A warning would've been nice since this is my first game on the update oh well

[afterburn25]

I received a warning and I never even got the tech to open it. it seems was done by another empire which I find quite unfair it basicly destroyed an entire day of playing

[Shahadem]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Kind of wish there were a warning before you open pandoras box (L-gates). Their fleets are extremely hard to combat without endgame tech and resources. With endgame tech and resources they aren't so bad. Not nearly as bad as the crisis.......Imma totally sic the tempest on the prethoryns the next time they show up.

They are beatable with midgame tech if you metagame. But being forced to metagame kinda defeats the point of RPing...

[TheDoctor]

i opened this things completely ignorant to the dangers and get pretty bummed down because my reward was some strange race on the other side of the gate... LuL

[Nemund]

Originally posted by Gamer Mosley:

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Kind of wish there were a warning before you open pandoras box (L-gates). Their fleets are extremely hard to combat without endgame tech and resources. With endgame tech and resources they aren't so bad. Not nearly as bad as the crisis.......Imma totally sic the tempest on the prethoryns the next time they show up.

A warning would've been nice since this is my first game on the update oh well

There are a lot of different things to opening the cluster. the very worst you can get is 20k fleets. Most of which is the single titan with it's big but very slow gun. which means you can take it defensively with mid game fleets no problem.
A 15k fleet with good starbase support set up right is about all you are likely to need. Maybe less. If you have end game fleets its overkill.

[corisai]

Originally posted by nevyn0ad:

the very worst you can get is 20k fleets.

Or 30-50k. Not everyone play on easy :)

P.S. Try to claim Terminal Egress at day0 after opening L-gates. Extremly bloody fight.

[Sammy]

Originally posted by Fartikus:

yea its great how tempest doesn't just disable starbases and outposts, tempest actually blows them up and revokes systems to unclaimed status.

What's worse is when AI empires go and steal your territory after the tempests destroy your starbases, and of course closing borders on them will do nothing. I had my supposed ALLIES doing this to me.

[Sabaithal]

New plan! Next time you are losing the game in multiplayer, open the L-gates out of spite and watch the tempest eat everything! Or just summon the end of the cycle if you are spiritualist.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

New plan! Next time you are losing the game in multiplayer, open the L-gates out of spite and watch the tempest eat everything! Or just summon the end of the cycle if you are spiritualist.

End of cycle is disable in multiplayer to avoid this.

[Echo 499]

meh tempest OP whine whine bet he dosnt complain when he gets the immortal 41k dreadnaught/ leader/ 1k single unit army also there are hints in the universe like a planet covered in nanobots a facility getting raided and them opening a box only to die after it

[happyscrub]

Thats the best outcome because you get the best rewards.

[Vik]

Originally posted by Warsmith Zarixx:

meh tempest OP whine whine bet he dosnt complain when he gets the immortal 41k dreadnaught/ leader/ 1k single unit army also there are hints in the universe like a planet covered in nanobots a facility getting raided and them opening a box only to die after it

Okay