The great space whale menace

[Saxon]

Against my better judgement I put a space harpoon to one of the Tiyanka herds, not realizing that they are considered a faction. Now ALL herds are considered hostile and they don't seem to pacify after being left alone for some time.

Because the herds tend to drift around my whole game turned into: "HOSTILE FLEET DETECTED" -> "EVADING HOSTILE FLEET"

After they managed to take out a base or two I made a few dedicated whaling parties. They only need three frigates since the whales are not very strong, so it's not killing my economy. But the micro management is starting to become a pain. Building a Trump space wall around my borders didn't help either because unlike the other space fauna they respawn, often right inside my borders.

The only thing I haven't tried yet is waiting till the respawns which seem to happen more or less at the same time and see if they only spawn in certain systems. If there is a pattern I could plop a cheap military base in each, equiped with a snare.

Has anyone else ever dealt with this silly problem? If so, how did you control the population?

EDIT for anyone googling the same issue: Abandon all hope. In the grim darkness of the 22nd millenium there is only whale wars. There is no rhyme or reason to the spawn locations, but if you have this problem you are probably a warlike empire. Just make the best of the situation and use the whaling parties to generate a constant supply of free admirals for your fleets.

[Radene]

Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

[Saxon]

Originally posted by Radene:

Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

Lol! As you might have guessed this is not the first time I find this out. At least the wales are not a fast killer like the time I challenged a fallen empire before I was ready.

[Mistfox]

Subspace Lure defence platforms.

[Grimmrog_SIG]

careful I saw amoeba in late medieval age, they are preparing, better get rid of space borne mobs before they enter relevant age of tech :P

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=691045414

[Elazul]

This makes me glad I didn't attack any lol... I think you need to hire yourself a space Ahab or something!

[kesat]

This is actually the reason why i'm never going to attack them again. I did in my first game - and it was just annoying to get the "hostile fleet detected" and "evading hostile fleet" all day long ;) And iirc it's not even worth to kill them...

[Saxon]

Originally posted by Grimmrog_SIG:

careful I saw amoeba in late medieval age, they are preparing, better get rid of space borne mobs before they enter relevant age of tech :P

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=691045414

And they even speak better German than I do! Maybe I just need to accept my new whale overlords...

[ElanaAhova]

You got Moby ♥♥♥♥♥♥! Hoisted on your own picard! :)