Am I doing something wrong?

[Sahel]

So I've played this game forn quite a while and worked myself up to 7-9 difficulty enemies, but for the last couple of games whenever I reach 10 ish planets on 120 size maps, I get swarmed with 20K + Waves for no reason. One moment you get 2.5-4K waves and one wave later you get a 26K missile frigates wave.

[Sahel]

Not playing with any plots, I have lazy ai and half waves on. Had the same issue on 2X waves and only encountered this after a path a while back. (I think the metal/crystal patch).

[Tuomas]

Well what did you do between the 4k ship wave and the 26k ship wave? What's your AIP (AI Progress)? Did the AIP increase between those waves? How much? Was the 26 ship wave a CPA (Cross Planetary Attack)? What AI types are you playing against and what difficulty level are they? Did you alert a Special Forces Alarm Post?

[Sahel]

No CPA, an aip increase of 100 tops, we killed about 14 of their shadow ships that suddenly started backdooring us. Threat was at 26 wave was at 0, didn't alert any eyes or gaurd posts.
Shield ninny and vanilla AI. I think difficulty 6 possibly 5. It wasn't a reprisal attack either,

[jlmdragon]

have you tried just taking out more of the warp gates, like as far as 2 junmps away from you? and leaving the comand stations alone before you start taking planets for real, the idea being you keep a 2 planent gap between your world and the closest AI world with a warp gate

[Sahel]

Gues we'll have to try that, won't waves be sent to ai planets then though?
The problem lies within the extreme increase in ships sent in such short notice.

[Tuomas]

The game just doesn't work like that. It was either a CPA or a reprisal wave. You must have missed the alert.

Also jlmdragon what exactly is the point in doing that?

[jlmdragon]

well if nothing else it increase the distance that ships in waves have to travel to get to you since they spawn further away then

[Tuomas]

It would make all wave ships become threat. They would just mass up and join the threat fleet and attack when they outgun you. Also you wouldn't be able to control where they attack as they would always attack the weakest point in your defenses.

[jlmdragon]

oh ,ok well do you have any good advice for sahel here then?

[Sahel]

Unfortunately I already thought about Reprisal, and CPA attacks so not really., they were normal waves consisting of 26K ships, seems like some bug. I do play pretty agressively though, so I might just trigger a lot of defensive scripts in the AI programming.

[Spaz]

I agree with Sahel i have had the same issue in games with him and on my own, even on difficulty 5. i cant seem to find anything that would cause it

[Flash]

This happened to me as well, rather frustrating, was near the end about ready to attack the homeworlds and from 2k - 3k reprisal attacks my computer all of a sudden paused, and then there were 64K just show up, It pretty much made the game unplayable just due to the the program pausing in order to catchup, not to mention no way I would have been able to stop that.

[William Shakeshack]

Kahuna, I know you like to think that you are the AI War master and your knowledge about the game is vast but it would be nice if you would rephrase your posts in a more polite and helpful manner instead of acting like an elitist. Thanks.

[Sahel]

Well if he is the AI War master I would say he should have encountered this problem by now. I would like to point out that we did get a reprisal after we staved off about 120K of ships throughout 4 waves and it was at about 35K ships, I am very certain that there was no reprisl wave and CPA's go through threat so, what else can it be?

[gia]

an eye going crazy perhaps?, or multiple homeworlds, positive handicap, or I dont know, there are many things that spawn ships, you'd have to post your entire game settings

I did get 20k something ships once, at low difficulty, but I had killed a homeworld, and the remaning AI wanted me out, I killed it before the ships arrived