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stupid cowards

Ugh, this is the second time I have tried playing a huge random map. It feels like all the AI works against me, they use cowardly tactics and wait till I move my fleet, like they can see what I am doing, then they move in bombarding ships. I go back to defend because 15 turrets and 3 hangar bays isn't enough. Anyways, the planet gets destroyed and then the damn ships take off before I can take shots on them. Sometimes when I finally find one of their big fleets with my bigger fleet and attempt to crush with them they RUN AWAY every time. Often this leads to a chase that ends at a warp hole or on a enemy forward planet closest to my territory. Which other AI fleets are waiting to ambush me. Even if both AI players who gang up on me aren't even at peace or have no treaty.

In the meantime I become the favorite target of a third or fourth AI player. They use the same tactics over and over and over. If they arent doing hit and runs they are sending a massive fleet to destroy my territory. Bombing my planets, colonising it, then run off. My defense fleets do not contain bombardment ships so after they colonise one of my closer planets that means I have to either make a ton of bombardment ships with new defenders for defense, or move my offensive fleet to reclaim it. Meanwhile they are targeting another one of my planets using this same method. If I attempt to reclaim one of the planets they taken of mine they send in their huge fleet and I can't deal with it with only defenders. Sometimes pirates target me and make everything worse.

Before I know it I have battles on 3-4 fronts while sending another fleet trying to take the offensive to assault their homes to stop this hit and run garbage. And just when I think I got my target down for the count some other jerk comes out of nowhere with a huge fleet and either:

a. blasts full force past into one of my defense fleets and begins destroying all my planets breaking my economy.

b. finds my offensive fleet and gangs up with another member and crushes them. Then proceeds to do a.

c. Sends like 20 planet bombarders and destroys my forward outpost planet(s) and breaks my ship supply then proceeds to do a.

AI doesn't fight eachother unless I am forutinate enough to get an ally. Then they all work against us both regardless of the team status of the 2 AI players working together. Eventually they crush my AI buddy and I am alone yet again being poked to death by sticks.

In the beta they were cowards, but not nearly this bad. I can't even get control of a situiation that just gets worse as the match progresses, eventually I break and am forced to surrender.

Oh yeah, but if it was a 1v1 on hard I would crush them like a piece of foil. It's no fun playing when all the AI collectively works aginst you.

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I know, I apologise for the angry post. Mabye someone can give advice on how to deal with this problem. Mabye I can upload my current savegame and someone can look at it and see what they can do to help if possible. Last game lasted 8 hours on a huge map of 102 planets, medium enemies, all random no team lock. Played as advent. It turned out to be one big slow loss. I eventually surrendered because I could not watch my empire slowly be poked to death.

During the beta I played alot of TEC and I can control them fairly well but I think I am doing just as good with advent.

If I could could cram how the match is going right now in an anology, it would be like me playing the hero in an action movie while fighting like 6 ninjas; Killing 2 of them and the rest attack me from the shadows. They are weak by themselves but all of them precieve me as a greater threat and use every oppourtunity and exploit every possible weakness until I finally fall.

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