Working as intended?

[Pessimist]

I was wondering why I keep going up against 70K federation fleets when every other fleet is about 5K? I'm fighting a doomstack of 200 corvettes, 85 destroyers, and 50 cruisers and the next biggest fleet has less than 30 points of ships in it. Is this a bug or a feature? It feels broken that their federation fleet alone has as many points of ships in it as my entire empire can field in a dozen fleets.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Federation fleets have a different max command limit.

[Tzyder]

the ai has gotten much much better at managing and maintaining ships in the last two patches..if its too much for ya turn down the difficulty which reduces the ai economy and ship# bonus

[FerrusPugnum]

merc fleets could be bought as well.

[ScreamCon]

Weaponize optimist prime !
Alliance copters initiate 'rofl'.
no my glorious empire is melting away like ice cream
nOoOoO

[Jimkiro Casy]

AI sometimes will gather up the personal fleets of every member of the federation and have them follow the federation fleet around. It can be a bit much if you're going solo, unless you massively out tech them or out resource them.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Pessimist:

I was wondering why I keep going up against 70K federation fleets when every other fleet is about 5K? I'm fighting a doomstack of 200 corvettes, 85 destroyers, and 50 cruisers and the next biggest fleet has less than 30 points of ships in it. Is this a bug or a feature? It feels broken that their federation fleet alone has as many points of ships in it as my entire empire can field in a dozen fleets.

A federation fleet (its also the same for the Galactic Defense Force or Imperial Navy fleets) has no functional Command Limit (how many ships can be in a single fleet).

So they can put as many ships as they have Federation Naval Capacity in said fleet and any newly constructed federation ships indeed auto join the fleet.

Each member of a federation (assuming that has the Fleet Contribution law set to anything other then none) contribute a bit of their Naval Capacity for the Federation Naval Capacity, but it has a maximum value of 600.

[eyeC]

War ... what is it good for?

[ScreamCon]

Originally posted by eyeC:

War ... what is it good for?

Killing many xeno's in righteous grievance.

[Pessimist]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

Originally posted by Pessimist:

I was wondering why I keep going up against 70K federation fleets when every other fleet is about 5K? I'm fighting a doomstack of 200 corvettes, 85 destroyers, and 50 cruisers and the next biggest fleet has less than 30 points of ships in it. Is this a bug or a feature? It feels broken that their federation fleet alone has as many points of ships in it as my entire empire can field in a dozen fleets.

A federation fleet (its also the same for the Galactic Defense Force or Imperial Navy fleets) has no functional Command Limit (how many ships can be in a single fleet).

So they can put as many ships as they have Federation Naval Capacity in said fleet and any newly constructed federation ships indeed auto join the fleet.

Each member of a federation (assuming that has the Fleet Contribution law set to anything other then none) contribute a bit of their Naval Capacity for the Federation Naval Capacity, but it has a maximum value of 600.

The total was about 600, so this is the most likely reason. I know some people were telling me to turn down the difficulty but this was on the second lowest, so no bonuses either way. Thanks for the explanation. I was getting frustrated because I've turned down the difficulty twice and it just didn't seem to have any effect, and I just wanted to play the damn game without getting overrun 100 years in.