Does Every Game End With You Fighting A Fallen Empire For Top Spot?

[Phantus]

Just came back to the series a couple days ago. I've conquered a quarter of the galaxy and there are only 3 rag tag empires left outside of the lone Fallen Empire. Time's running out and I'm a very comfortable second place re: victory stats but the FE is way ahead by score and will ultimately win the game unless I defeat them.

I would assume this is pretty typical of most if not all games? Beat the regular empires and then duke it out with the #1 point leader which undoubtedly is the FE?

[Elitewrecker PT]

When you don't get ahead so much that you also pass the fallen empires (although by that point they would usually awaken), yeah.

[Катя Мяу <3]

I usually surpass Fallen Empires relatively quickly. However Awakened Empires do require a bit of "cutting" occassionally.

[Phantus]

Originally posted by ֺ Cata Cauda:

I usually surpass Fallen Empires relatively quickly. However Awakened Empires do require a bit of "cutting" occassionally.

Thanks guys. Yeah, I built a few mega structures and took the lead on the crisis attack and literally doubled the awakened empire for the win. Cheers.

[Cosmic Cat]

I started disabling FE the last few times I played and had a lot more fun fighting and interacting with some powerful normal AI factions instead.

[Misterwheatley #Maintaintf2]

I play with mods that add weaponized planets.

I can curbstomp anything.

[Wen]

but what if they have them weaponized (i play the same mod they can if you enable the option)

[Oscar Chan]

Not really. If you have a really large federation and a very streamlined economy, passing the FE's score is never a problem at all.

I always attack FEs though for Dark matter shields / reactor / thrusters technology though. When I and the FE have the same fleet power, I will attack their bases and fleet in hopes of a debris appearing for me to analyze.

Usually there is, and voila! After refitting my ships my fleet power has increased even further!

Furthermore, FE's planets are very resource-abundant too. I remember they have buildings that generate over 100 energy credits, and another building that creates a lot of rare resources using minerals, of course I'm gonna get the planet! That would be highly beneficial for the state effort.

[mss73055]

You can always side with a fallen empire and let them clean up the crisis. You don't HAVE to fight all of them. Though with the Apocalypse DLC there's chances for "war of heavens", where all fallen empires start an infight.

Dark matter propulsion (250% speed) is great. But what you really need is allies building warp gates before hell breaks loose. Dark matter techs got big numbers, but eat even more energy. And since you have to get past the entire tech tree to get to repeatable techs, dark matter components don't offer that much.

As applies to their planets. They got some buildings with big numbers, but not as big as your humming ringworld.