When the AI initiates warp raids can I predict the ingress point in a system if I have destroyed all adjacent warp gates except for one. In other words, if my home world is bordered by planets X, Y, and Z; and if I destroy the warp gates on X and Y; then will enemy warp raids into my home world be limited to planet Z's wormhole. Or can the warp gate on Z launch a wave into any of the three wormholes? Basically, I want to know if I can concentrate more defenses on a loan wormhole or if I should spread them evenly across the system.
In my current game, my home world is 2 jumps away from a Mark IV world that is bottling half the galaxy as well as two relatively tough Mark III worlds that share the same pocket of the galaxy as me. At least one of the AIs seemed very fond of sending large groups into my system from the start, so I spend a lot of my early game resources beefing up my home world defences. So if I would like to take the gamble of leaving it to take the brunt of the enemy for a while. This whole strategy hinges on my ability to predict exactly where the enemy waves will enter the system. My current plan is to rapidly gate raid and expand around the 2 Mark III worlds in my pocket of the universe, thus gaining enough of an economic base and research to take them and then use my forces to knock out the Mark IV world. This will be much easier if I don't have to expend resources heavily defending another whipping boy planet.
As always, thanks again for the great game. It is the most fun I've had in a long while! I've convinced my brother to buy it so we can play online. He is a graduate student at NYU in the mathematics department specializing in biological mathematics. As soon as I mentioned the game uses emergent intelligence in the AI programming, I am pretty sure he went around slapping high-fives for the next day or two.
