Void Clouds?

[JustAnotherGamer]

So, just throwing this out there, has anyone actually seen a Void Cloud since the last update? Played 5-6 games now on varies size maps, trying out the new updates and the new expansion, yet to see a single Void Cloud. Last couple of games, I had science ships searching the galaxy for them, even though I had no ability to take them on yet (and hence the AI wouldn't have been able to either).

Does anyone know if they have been removed?

[Schakar]

Yes, saw them, killed them, got the lightning weapon tech.

[JustAnotherGamer]

Fair enough, just checking...just must have become extremely rarer...

[mss73055]

It varies from game to game.

They may not spawn at all. The isolationist planets may not spawn any clouds at all. There is a chance you have to go without.

[Shinobi273]

Is it possible AI killed them first? Mine did not spawn all over like the other spaceborne creatures. I had 2 isolated pockets on a medium galaxy with no normal empires.

[Schakar]

Sure is it possible.
If the Clouds spawn far away from your system and AI has the fleet power ... they will kill them if they want the system (or by exident) :).

[Orion Invictus]

I had three in a system about half a dozen jumps away from my homeworld.

[JustAnotherGamer]

Yeah I know, I can normally find them pretty easy as I know they either tend to hang out around the edge of the galaxy, black hole sites or within the Great Wound (normally about 3 of them). However the last 5-6 games as mentioned, I've checked all locations and they don't seem to be around.

AI killing them does happen but not in the first 50 years or so. Rule of thumb I have is that if I have enough of a fleet to kill one, then give it 10 years and I'd expect them all to be gone (except for Great Wound).

I'm playing my games against 25x unbidden, so a bit tricky if I can't get Cloud Lightning...it's just really annoying you can't get Cloud Lightning from AI (or at least, I've never seen it).

[Lich King]

ye it's great tech, I wish you could get it otherwise or that void clouds were more common.

It would kinda make sense tho for the grey tempest to have the tech somewhere in the L cluster