Reminds me of a similar strategy in EU4, having a low strength regiment running around will instantly make all the AI troops salivate in a blood frenzy, and charge at your weak regiment with no regard for their own safety or health.

Capturing planets is annoying.

I wish I could just build a defense station there.

yeah, it's kind of boring, and trivial at later stages. Just feels like a grind

hopefully the new patch/dlc will do something to alleviate that boredom

the claim system and system conquest stuff looks promising at least

and the ability to build a defense system that isn't obsolete almost before it's built

Yeah defense platforms suck

totally. I've only ever really used them really early on

build one, declare wars on neighbors as soon as you discover them

they'll send their ships over and suicide against your starbase, because the defense platform interdicts them, and pulls them out right next to it

then you harvest warscore until they surrender, and claim a few planets early

haven't tried it more than once, in the latest patch though, so I don't know if it works anymore

AI seems a bit more reluctant to attack your starbase at the beginning when they can't muster the fleet strength to take it out

@Mal favorite ftl?

hyperlanes

so I don't mind the changes coming

almost always played on that setting

yeah

reminds of of older 4x games

I always found warp and wormholes to be annoying

same

wormholes was just another layer of micromanagement

but the yump drives were the shit

yeah I enjoy getting those, because they were locked behind tech

and felt like an upgrade

favorite weapons?

and yeah

always went with a mix, tachyon lances and kinetic artillery

I remember the tachyon **Destroyers**

lol

back before that pesky X slot

yep

and battleships with auras

oh yeha

getting those back, iirc

what's the best ethos combination?

I've always found fanatic materialist + individualist to be best

though I now prefer the assimilator bots

lol

research boost is just too good