what causes message "x AI ships (y FP) en route to your planets"?

[benetnash]

Hi!
I recently bought CoN DLC and have never seen message "x AI ships (y FP) en route to your planets" during game. Currently I saw it three times during game and first time it was single mark I bomber (lol), second time I didn't notice any attackers and now 1 ship with FP 60 is announced.

What causes this attacks, where they came from and how to identify attackers?
Best regards

[zoutzakje]

hi and welcome to the forums =)
This sounds a lot like an exogalactic strikeforce (exo for short), but I'm not entirely sure. Do you have any of the other DLC? The Zenith Remnant or Light of the Spire? In those expansions are minor factions which cause waves like this to happen when enabled (Golems hard - Spirecraft hard, Fallen Spire). I don't think these waves are from CoN, but I could be wrong of course.

With these waves you will unfortunately never know where it hits. They spawn on AI planets and can attack anywhere. They often target important structures (especially your homeworld's command station).
But You can identify who the attackers are. Usually these waves skyrocket your threat number. Hover your mouse over the "threat" and look at the planet names that suddenly have an abnormally high amount of ships and firepower. This is where the waves have spawned. Simply point your view at those planets to see what you're up against. Asuming you have scouts present of course. If you don't have any, nothing will show up in the threat bar.

Hope this helps a bit, though I'm still not entirely sure if it's an exo wave we're talking about or not.

Out of curiosity, what difficulty are you playing? Only getting 1 bomber seems kind of silly lol.

[benetnash]

I have CoN and ZR DLCs and I'm playing with golems medium. I played before with more or less the same settings and I've never seen this message before.

If someone is very curious I attach save with active message. It says that wave FP is 60, but on galaxy map max threat FP is about 56. After waiting several minutes message disappears and nothing happens (and I'm sure I should notice such high FP unit).

My guess is that it could be golemite AI that's reinforcing own planets with golems, but it's just blind guess.
Best regards

[Minotaar]

Checked it out, yep, looks like it's those golems in threat mode.

[zoutzakje]

looked into the save and found it. You were nearly right. It is indeed because you are playing against a golemite. Everytime you trigger an enemy golem into attacking you (threat), it will appear as a warning as long as it's not on your planets yet. Your first warning wasn't a single bomber. It was most likely a golem that went on alert and wanted to attack you (which got destroyed by your defenses/fleet without you noticing it I assume).
Retreat the cursed golem on Yarco. Move all the ships and the golem to another planet, and you'll notice that the enemy regenerator golem your cursed golem was attacking will enter your planet (along with a bunch of other ships) and the warning disappears.
I'm not sure whether golemite spawns golems or not. I don't think so. I think all golems he has are already there when the galaxy is generated.

Did you just have a CPA? if not, may I suggest you kill all the big piles of threat? it's massive.
Good luck with your game, it looks quite interesting. You're gonna love that Raid Engine on one of the AI homeworlds ^^

EDIT: damn, got ninja'd

[benetnash]

That threats are mostly mark I gatlings, I'm killing them with nanoswarms. So far it's most interesting game I had. Now I'm struggling with first AI homeworld with grav drill under shild sphere guard post. To make things harder between wormhole and drill is mark III fort. Luckly there is no train station on this planet, so I hope several waves of bombers hidden with cloaker starship should be enough.

Now, for fun, I'm trying combo neinzul enclave + cloacker starship = spam of mark 1 bombers just in front of enemy

Thanks for help
Best regards