WTF is hunter and prey?

[Justicar]

I was just enjoying early game, translated the first neighbor race. I had built up a base quickly to secure the border. It just exploded and I got a pop up saying something about the base going boom and us getting a last visual of an armada of the neighbors ships. How in the hell am I supposed to do anything with my base, a heavily armed lvl 2 That I invested a lot of alloys in as corporate explorers just erased? I don't even have hyper drives yet!

Events are fun but this one just royally screwed me over I think. They are Dark Forest Origin if that might have anything to do with it?

[Terijian]

I assume you mean "fear of the dark" origin.
I started next to one as well and they declared war immediately after contact it was rough lol

[Bored Peon]

Fear of the Dark origin has a debt collector because your previous Overlord slapped you with a bill for your war of freedom. The people show up to collect the debt and you do not pay then you fight.

[𝒞𝒶𝓉𝓎𝒶♡]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Fear of the Dark origin has a debt collector because your previous Overlord slapped you with a bill for your war of freedom. The people show up to collect the debt and you do not pay then you fight.

That's the Payback origin you are describing tho?

I might have slept way too little the last days (because played Stellaris so much lol) so might already be confusing/mixing up some of the origins haha

[Half Phased]

Fear of the dark origins have their minor state that will fire an event shortly after first contact that starts a war. The AI choose to go for the fight rather than the peace option when given that choice.

But generally, you should be building a navy before your first first contact, if for nothing else than power projection.

[Orion Invictus]

We sense prey.

[Justicar]

Originally posted by Half Phased:

Fear of the dark origins have their minor state that will fire an event shortly after first contact that starts a war. The AI choose to go for the fight rather than the peace option when given that choice.

But generally, you should be building a navy before your first first contact, if for nothing else than power projection.

I need bases to hold the border, a navy can't be big enough. Maybe now that I'm starting to use the escalating difficulty. I'm more used to max, and no way can you match fleets early on with that. Though I do use a mod so the bases aren't the usuals pos from Vanilla either. ;) I did get it rebuilt. Literally got it upgraded from a new replacement outpost with the outpost already halfway through the armor from the attackers. Yes I sent everything we could afford to assemble. They got shot down though did buy a precious minute or so while it was finishing.