Attacked within the early game

[Justin]

So I haven't played for about half of a year, and for some reason I play one game and within 10 in-game years an empire has reached 10k fleet power and obliterates my whole fleet of 3k. How in the ♥♥♥♥ is that allowed?

[Justin]

Edit, it was 45 in-game years and the empire has 2 fleets of 10k fleet power and all I have in total is 4k fleet power.

[Teyloune]

They could have had much more. There is nothing weird about this. Game has a pretty decent learning curve.

[HappySack]

You allowed advanced empires to spawn and are surprised you suddenly get curbstomped?

Disable them completely because they offer nothing good gameplay-wise.

If it wasn't that then the difficulty was too high and you didn't prepare enough.

[kosten07]

Currently even on Captain Devouring Swarms, Determined Exterminators, and Fanatic Purifiers are steam rolling early game, even against the other AI. Just be aware, work on that diplomacy and try to get defensive pacts asap to deal with them.

[coolman552]

Originally posted by kosten07:

Currently even on Captain Devouring Swarms, Determined Exterminators, and Fanatic Purifiers are steam rolling early game, even against the other AI. Just be aware, work on that diplomacy and try to get defensive pacts asap to deal with them.

usually one defensive pact with another empire is enough to deter any invasions, if you cant secure one and really really afraid of your neighbor declaring war, just become a vassal of them or your other neighbor

[Justin]

I've been playing since it was released and the difficult was on Ensign. The empire declared war on me only after having met them 10 years ago in the game.

[Stromko]

Early wars can happen now, to be on the safe side you need to start building up a fleet (at least 15 or 20 corvettes) right at first contact and be ready to entrench with a starbase at any chokepoints, that's what's been working for me. Make sure the chokepoint is close enough you can reinforce with your fleet before it's taken as it's very painful if that occurs.

10K fleets though? Sounds like an Advanced Empire, though that's a LOT even then so not sure what's going on there.. anyway I would concur that you should turn them off in game start options, they're only for players who want to lose and have an interesting story about it. Or at least, set it so they do not spawn near you. They're more manageable in the midgame but early on there's simply no way.

[Supply Slut]

You can lower the difficulty. 45 years in game is not unusual for war, genocidal empires like to genocide.

[Justin]

Originally posted by Supply Slut:

You can lower the difficulty. 45 years in game is not unusual for war, genocidal empires like to genocide.

As I said before, the difficulty was on Ensign. Difficulty is not the problem here whatsoever.

[Justin]

Not to mention it was the beginning of the game, it wasn't just randomly in the middle of the game.

[Cerodil]

20k of fleet power in 45 years is about standard for a decent start if you know what you're doing. If you play really well you can do even better.

[Supply Slut]

Originally posted by Bored Adult:

Originally posted by Supply Slut:

You can lower the difficulty. 45 years in game is not unusual for war, genocidal empires like to genocide.

As I said before, the difficulty was on Ensign. Difficulty is not the problem here whatsoever.

So you can turn it down to cadet if ensign is too much. 45 years in is not the very beginning of the of the game.

[Justin]

The fact that you all are acting like this is completely normal compared to the last patches where this never happened to begin with is just stupid.

[Justin]

I have been playing since the game's release, and I haven't dealt with an issue like this before whatsoever. There should be 0 reason as to why empires should randomly attack me for no reason within the first events of the game.

I just set up ANOTHER save, where I had 3 empires next to me randomly decide to wage war on me when I set the hostility to off, turned off advanced neighbors, and they still manage to defeat my entire fleet.

[Kiriveh]

This is happened to me every game lately, even on low AI aggression I still get constantly declared war on