Author Topic: Anyone have notes on settling ai homeworlds?  (Read 5680 times)

Offline Chris_Stalis

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Anyone have notes on settling ai homeworlds?
« on: May 24, 2015, 05:23:43 am »
Hey, I'm kinda... playing a ridiculous game where i'm going for the "settle 70" achievement... on an 80 planet map >.>

Anyway, I'm looking at settling one of the cleared AI homeworlds. does anyone have any notes on what happens with the exo-galactic wormhole on the planet with me?

Offline Imago

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Re: Anyone have notes on settling ai homeworlds?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2015, 05:28:00 am »
I've settled a homeworld before and nothing too remarkable happened. You just can't gate raid it.

I noticed that in a game with champions a nemesis shadow frigate would also spawn occasionally, but that's no big deal even for mk 1 turrets. Settling the world might actually have helped a bit by cutting them off at the source.

Offline Radiant Phoenix

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Re: Anyone have notes on settling ai homeworlds?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2015, 11:23:25 am »
Take a look.

Offline Qatu

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Re: Anyone have notes on settling ai homeworlds?
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2015, 01:41:01 am »
Way back that other command station was the only known way to shut up the exo wormhole. Dunno if it still shuts it.

Offline Pumpkin

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Re: Anyone have notes on settling ai homeworlds?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2015, 10:19:55 am »
Many metal deposit (12 or 13, usually) and one more ECollector. Knowledge is gatherable without the need of capturing it. Downsides are one more hostile wormhole that can't be gateraided and eventually some core worlds (MkIV) adjacent. So for 150,000 energy and 240 or 360 m/s (I assume harvesters MkI or MkII; MkIII are less common), is it worth taking a more-than-average dangerous planet? The answer might be yes.

Personally, I often go for a quick succession of home assaults. However, I sometimes am in a position where capturing the first homeworld while preparing the second assault (Outa Tracks MkI, for instance). This also depends on which home you take first: the stronger or the weaker. I can't find the post where Red.Queen made an interesting comparison of both strategies. However, for the case we're interested in here, attacking the weaker homeworld first would make capturing it more desirable for using metal, energy and knowledge to improve the last big assault, while taking the AIP increase and the exogalactic wormhole.

Hope that helped.
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