Awakend Empire with 48mil fleet(s). Is this normal? (screenshot linked)

[Ravemaster99]

Never gotten this far in Stellaris before. Game updates over the years have also... changed the game from how I remember.

Anyway, I was googling people being confused about 1mil or 2mil awakened empires about 6 years ago, but havent seen much from the last like, year.

Is 48mil strength fleets normal for them? how does a player.... handle this.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2899375184

[Immortalis]

I’ll have to say mods, assuming the two ships on the left are something akin to moon-sized battlestations.

When you mod the game to have ridiculously overpowered things added to it, then the AI will have ridiculously overpowered things as well.

[Ravemaster99]

I do have mods, so i cant discount that. I'm not personally a fan of adding masochistic mods that increase difficulty, so the only guess I have is maybe that NSC mod: They keep adding weird stuff to it. But could be definitely be anything.

What would you say is "typical" for a normal fleet power stack for a normal difficulty (the difficulty one step above captain i think?) game? In the current patch of things I mean?

[Vovarush]

Originally posted by Ravemaster99:

I do have mods, so i cant discount that. I'm not personally a fan of adding masochistic mods that increase difficulty, so the only guess I have is maybe that NSC mod: They keep adding weird stuff to it. But could be definitely be anything.

What would you say is "typical" for a normal fleet power stack for a normal difficulty (the difficulty one step above captain i think?) game? In the current patch of things I mean?

If you have gigastructures it gives fe's attack moons and planetcrafts

[Elitewrecker PT]

Definitely looks like giga

[Ragnarr Loðbrók]

It's gigastructural engineering mod, Fallen empire has probably attack moons and behemoth

[HappySack]

With those numbers you definitely enabled attack moons for Fallen Empires which is probably not a good idea at all.

[Jimmy Hunter]

You selected the option at the beginning of Gigastructures that gives them multiple Attack Moons/Planetcrafts that also give them TONS of extra repeatable researches. Judging from the fleet numbers, it looks like you picked the hardest one without reading what it did.

Scratch that, that's the Aetertum which is a late game optional crisis that guards multiple Megastructures, including the ridiculously overpowered Birch World that requires you opening up the Galactic Core via an option in your Situation Log. Although you did turn the difficulty up as it starts with them having around 20million fleet power on the lowest difficulty you can choose. These armies look like the 100m Fleet Power option, if not higher.

I'm also heavily confused how you managed to confuse them for a Fallen Empire since there's a whole chain of events that happens when you discover them in the Galactic Core. I'm guessing you skipped through all that text.

Althought at 24XX you should already have Planetcrafts that would easily smash that army, if not a Stellarcraft that would be close to double that fleetpower alone.