Paradox, We need to talk about The Free Nanite Fleets from The Machine Age DLC.

[Some Grumpy Dude]

This is insane, I was getting so many fleets that it started slowing down the game and eventually starting crashing and de-syncing when playing with friends online. There either needs to be a way to merge fleets easier or just reduce how many fleets we get. I love the idea of swarms of ships but this is too much. PLEASE, some kind of balance is needed.

[Run, Logan, Run!]

Preach, brother!

[VoiD]

Little known fact: Sometimes ships can lag the game even harder than pops.

When you get mega structures and you can see the whole galaxy's fleets the game will often slow down to a crawl.

Actually seeing them, when you have dozens of max size fleets moving against a huge colalition fleet, like this:
https://imgur.com/PNLjqRF

https://imgur.com/zjGKltY

will slowdown your game to a crawl, under 1fps in some cases.

So yeah, I imagine having a bunch of crappy ships spawning everywhere would be a mechanic as bad as xeno compatibility. I really hope they fix it somehow, else it will be a disabled ascension in every game.

[Anzaman]

Had ~1500 Nanite Ships, all equipped with strike craft weaponry.

Every single encounter caused de-sync, including "Num. Strike Craft". So you know the game can't handle that.

[Crimson Wisp]

One solution would be, to let swarmer ships mature and grow larger. That way you can limit the number of ships, but still give massive bonus.

[Sedmeister]

Can we have a ship cost slider in game set up? Save me using Expensive Ship mod to make ships, fleets and battles more meaningful?

Oh, and it will address aforementioned end game lag caused by ships too.

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Its like this with Astral Planes, too.

The size of summoned Dimensional Fleets is based on how many years have passed. The longer the game, the more ships get spawned. By year 2500, each fleet has around 1k ships. And unlike Nanite Ascension, EVERY empire can summon them. Imagine trying to play a long game with 15+ empires all spawning Dimensional Fleets.

[Azor]

Anzaman lähetti viestin:

Had ~1500 Nanite Ships, all equipped with strike craft weaponry.

Every single encounter caused de-sync, including "Num. Strike Craft". So you know the game can't handle that.

each strike craft weapon slot spawns some strikecraft so I can't even imagine how that would look like

[dq_177]

Instead of fixing the existing mechanical issues of the game they'd rather sell you more content that makes them worse.

[Some Grumpy Dude]

Azor lähetti viestin:

Anzaman lähetti viestin:

Had ~1500 Nanite Ships, all equipped with strike craft weaponry.

Every single encounter caused de-sync, including "Num. Strike Craft". So you know the game can't handle that.

each strike craft weapon slot spawns some strikecraft so I can't even imagine how that would look like

In one game, I had Almost 10k Ships with a mix of torpedoes and Strikecraft, The amount of stuff on the screen was INSANE. It crashed after I went to battle with an Awakened Fallen Empire. Mind you this was my first game using nanites and I messed up so the amount of ships i had was SIGNIFICANTLY less than what it could have been.

[talemore]

Yes fleets are the big drain on the game.

I propose reverse ship science.

As tech improve ships become smaller and less bulky.

A small ship in space would be very hard to make as the size matter to install the engine.

As well smaller ships wouldn't make sense in space until you have the tech to make small ships worth while.

Cruisers weren't battleships. They were ships after battleships installed with battleship cannons.

Corvette and destroyer class ships are used today as there has been a single sea battle with battleships in modern history.

[Merloga]

Not to mention that Nanotech is pretty much a troll pick anyway, not even meta wise. It feels trash compated to the others, both Modu and Virtu give you respective traits, but somehow my nanite bots have nanites as pets and are not made out of them???? I really feel like Nanotech in general is pretty much the least fleshed out tradition out of all of them, including politics.