Author Topic: New Player & Request for help with Fog of War Game  (Read 2841 times)

Offline Panopticon

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Re: New Player & Request for help with Fog of War Game
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2011, 11:55:17 am »
You can take the Dyson Spheres planet juuuust long enough to grab those resources. You'll need to prepare to defend the stuff though, as when you take the planet the Dyson Gatlings the Sphere spawns will be hostile to you. All the other Gatlings will remain friendly though. Basically what you want to do is bubble up the stuff you want to capture and reinforce the bubbles with engineers just in case, and move in a fleet beefy enough to kill the hostile Gatlings that spawn. I think I had around a dozen to deal with the last time I had to do something like this? Anyway, the instant the station is completed and the facilities switch over, scrap the station. The Dyson will go back to churning out friendlies and you have your new stuff. If you successfully defended the units.

Offline Hurmferd

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Re: New Player & Request for help with Fog of War Game
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2011, 01:20:43 pm »
Thanks Panopticon,

I'll give that a try later today.

I feel as though I'm starting to get the hang of AI War now, but I haven't found the AI Home planets yet, and I probably haven't yet felt even a glimmer of its wrath.  We'll see how this plays out.

H.

Offline BobTheJanitor

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Re: New Player & Request for help with Fog of War Game
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2011, 03:47:12 pm »
I will also note that once the Dyson becomes friendly and starts churning out gatlings that are on your side, it will just keep doing it for the rest of the game. They will patrol through every planet you have which is connected to the Dyson world. And even with a good PC, this will probably start to lag your game after a while, especially since you mentioned you were playing with high ship caps. I'm playing on a game where I found a Dyson world just 3 hops away from my starting world. I almost lost right off the bat by trying to make it friendly too early, but I managed to get it (and then had to rebuild every single world I had taken so far) and now it's been churning out gatlings ever since. I'm having to put my performance profile on the lowest setting (the 'no one should ever use this' setting, hah) to be able to play now. Of course, I'm accepting that tradeoff since the gatlings are almost single handedly wiping out fallen spire exo-waves for me. :D