Author Topic: Has anyone else noticed the Acutians slow down in ship production?  (Read 1026 times)

Offline GC13

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The Acutians are renowned for being earlygame powerhouses, and it's been true every game of theirs I've watched. When I ran an Observer game, they got up to a Fear Empire, but were eventually crushed by the other races.

At first I thought this was just bad luck or mismanagement by them that allowed them to be overcome, but in my most recent game I saw something interesting: when they mismanaged their big fleet by throwing it piecemeal at a superior force, it never came back. Sure, they would build ships, but they'd stop when they got "big enough", which was significantly weaker than "big enough" was considered to be in the early game (despite, I'm sure, better tech).

This behavior is a lot like the Burlusts, who I spent a lot of time trying to manage: their fleet seems to cap itself at a very small size. Part of the problem with the Burlusts is that they'll send ships off to raid much more frequently than any other race, but the Acutians don't have that problem and yet still can't field as large a fleet as the warlords can now.

Has anyone else seen this? The Acutians decide later in the game that they don't need fleets as powerful as they used to field, even though they used to field stronger ones with weaker technology?
Furthermore, it is my opinion that Hari must be destroyed.

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Re: Has anyone else noticed the Acutians slow down in ship production?
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2014, 01:38:17 am »
If there is indeed some bugged capping logic present, this might be one of the factors hampering the low tech races in mid to late game. Care to mantis your findings?
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Re: Has anyone else noticed the Acutians slow down in ship production?
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2014, 12:00:19 pm »
It's just anecdotal right now. It seems to happen fairly often, but I can't really pin it down. I don't know what triggers the capping behavior, but I have seen a race finally throw it off to an extent (the Thoraxians finally decided to field a four-digit-strength fleet, in a time when all of the cool kids had at least five digits).
Furthermore, it is my opinion that Hari must be destroyed.

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Re: Has anyone else noticed the Acutians slow down in ship production?
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2014, 09:24:30 am »
I've seen a massively teched 1-3 mil strength Evuck just throw their entire fleet away against a 200k strength Skylaxian homeworld armada by just throwing it at them in small piecemeal raids.