So some guy walks into IRC asking for help..

[Lancefighter]

Hey guys, my game is running really slowly, he says.
I just dont know why...

He provides this picture, and suddenly it makes sense.

http://i.imgur.com/qUd79.jpg?1

[Aklyon]

Is it going slowly because he has 65 planets?

[Lancefighter]

69 thousand enemy ships, at 1.3k aip, 33 hours into the game..

[Aklyon]

69 thousand enemy ships, at 1.3k aip, 33 hours into the game..

Also, he has Fallen Spire active.

[zoutzakje]

yeah teach him how to keep his AIP low... or his threat. Or both.

[chemical_art]

When in doubt, nuke it out?

[Lancefighter]

Apparently he has been playing this way for two years now. I honestly am completely baffled - I was pretty sure the tutorials taught that most planets werent worth taking..

[@B0FH]

tbh I often play in the "standard rts" way of conquering everything, it makes the game challenging in a different way to normal. However I also normally only do that on a snake style map so I can build a front door   It also manage to slow down my overclocked i7 system running at 4.8GHz....

[Eternaly_Lost]

Apparently he has been playing this way for two years now. I honestly am completely baffled - I was pretty sure the tutorials taught that most planets werent worth taking..

If you are playing Fallen Spire, you just about have to do so that way. Every city needs every world next to them clear, and if you clear them, you might as well capture them.

[Echo35]

69 thousand enemy ships, at 1.3k aip, 33 hours into the game..

RAM? Where we're going, we don't need RAM.

[Mánagarmr]

That brings me back to when I popped 13 Omegas with a Mk III nuke in a test game. I had a wave of 1,5 million ships incoming. If that had spawned, I think my computer would've spontaneously self-combusted.