There are 21 wormholes in your home system. what do you do?

[triggerman602]

so how would someone go about surviving this? the presence of a special forces captain makes matters a bit worse too.

[Kjara]

I'd unlock exo-shields, and pretty much only defend your command center(some snipers would probably be useful).  Perhaps a few turrets around each resource.

[RCIX]

Fortresses FTW! build 2 or three of those, that will help.

On another note, can you post the savegame up here so we can take a crack at it? should be interesting...

Oh, and now we know what X uses to place wormholes: a couple concentric circles

[triggerman602]

seed: 1614257812
# of planets: 120
style: grid

I'm playing against a special forces captain so iv got special forces patrols attacking me almost non stop. iv spent almost all my starting knowledge on high level turrets to keep me alive. so far iv set up a ring of mark III basic and MLRS turrets and some Mark I lasers to keep me covered. also using exo-shields.

you have only a few minutes to set anything up before the attacks start coming if your facing a special forces captain.

[Excession]

Now this could be a fun GOTM map

[deMangler]

Now this could be a fun GOTM map

Just what I was thinking.....

[HellishFiend]

Now this could be a fun GOTM map

Just what I was thinking.....

Lets do it!

[I-KP]

Nice situation.  You'll be Knowledge raiding for hours with that little lot!  Looks like a prime candidate for a half-dozen perma-prowling Fortresses.

[I-KP]

Played it five times (with one SF Commander and random other @ diff. 8 ): over 1'000 AI ships inside of five minutes.  Needless to say you can't hold that back.

EDIT:
With so many stars and an SF Commander the game laboured like a pregnant camel right from the off, and it only got steadily worse, so I doubt this one would be physically playable to conclusion for me anyway.  (AMD64 4000 w/ 3GB RAM.)

[triggerman602]

wow a 1000 ships? I'm against a pair of level 7 ai and I'm only getting maybe 100 ships at a time albeit very frequently.

[I-KP]

I lasted for 8 minutes and the ships were coming in at the rate of roughly 100 every 15 seconds.  One Fortress couldn't hold that back.  I expect I'd need at least four... and there's no way I'm getting more than one with only one system under my belt.  

EDIT:
On one attempt a SpaceTime warper thingy turned up and just zapped the Forcefield to the farthest reaches of the system.  That game ended rather swiftly.

In another attempt 300 Raiders and 200 Bombers turned up at the 2 minute mark.  That game ended fairly quickly too.

In another attempt I spammed Fighters only to (fail to) fend off nearly 600 Bulletproofs at the four minute mark.  Typical. 

[triggerman602]

in 15 minutes iv had about 500 units attack me from 1 SF captain at difficulty 8. I'm using 20 markIII basic and 20 markIII MLRS turrets and those are keeping the AI at bay for now. the trader came through also so i ordered a super fortress which should be done in about 5 hours.

EDIT: woah devourer passed through my system. good thing he didn't come near my commands station.

[RCIX]

Ok this map sounds good, what about 2 Level 7.6 SF Captains with No enemy waves, the person to survive the longest wins?

[HellishFiend]

Ok this map sounds good, what about 2 Level 7.6 SF Captains with No enemy waves, the person to survive the longest wins?

I'd still prefer the games of the month to be more about playing common games and comparing stories and strategies rather than setting meta-rules and seeing who wins based on a set condition.

[RCIX]

Ok this map sounds good, what about 2 Level 7.6 SF Captains with No enemy waves, the person to survive the longest wins?

I'd still prefer the games of the month to be more about playing common games and comparing stories and strategies rather than setting meta-rules and seeing who wins based on a set condition.

The wins thing is a good point, i suppose i could just post it up and then we can figure out who picks next later.