Posted by: Arcanestomper
« on: February 22, 2015, 02:42:36 AM »Well a couple things I've noticed after further investigation.
The swarm hangs out in the inner system. While the new guys hang out around the 4th system jump point which is about 1. 4 billion kilometers away. So they probably don't see each other often.
The only thing I saw being shot were warhead strength 11 missiles from the new aliens. Given that they only shot about 2 of these every 20 seconds it's possible that they simply couldn't hurt the swarm queen through her shield. While on the other hand the queen couldn't catch them as they have a top speed of about 5000 km/s.
After clearing out the soldiers that the queen spawned off my wrecks, and staying well clear of my guess as to where the other ships were, I built some missile point defense escorts and went back in to try and check out the new aliens. Once I got close enough I saw that there were actually three ships. Two of about 8k tons and one 16k ton ship. I was going to get in a fight and see what happened, but then I realized that I still couldn't kill the Swarm Queen. Nor could I salvage the wrecks. So I would just be feeding the swarm no matter whether I won or lost.
Instead I backed off, and decided to come back later once I had sorted out the ongoing mineral crisis in my empire well enough to build some beam warships and finally kill the queen.
However I did notice that through the whole encounter the other aliens weren't launching missiles or even chasing my fleet. They didn't spend that many missiles killing my scout. So I don't know if they had spent all their ammunition trying to kill the queen or what.
It just seems really odd because I did an entire grav survey of the system and fought a prolonged engagement with the Swarm. But I didn't spot these other aliens until something like a month after that when I was checking to see what the Queen's range was and if I could lure her around for a possible mine ambush. So I don't if they were there all along and I simply didn't see them or if they came from another system.
The swarm hangs out in the inner system. While the new guys hang out around the 4th system jump point which is about 1. 4 billion kilometers away. So they probably don't see each other often.
The only thing I saw being shot were warhead strength 11 missiles from the new aliens. Given that they only shot about 2 of these every 20 seconds it's possible that they simply couldn't hurt the swarm queen through her shield. While on the other hand the queen couldn't catch them as they have a top speed of about 5000 km/s.
After clearing out the soldiers that the queen spawned off my wrecks, and staying well clear of my guess as to where the other ships were, I built some missile point defense escorts and went back in to try and check out the new aliens. Once I got close enough I saw that there were actually three ships. Two of about 8k tons and one 16k ton ship. I was going to get in a fight and see what happened, but then I realized that I still couldn't kill the Swarm Queen. Nor could I salvage the wrecks. So I would just be feeding the swarm no matter whether I won or lost.
Instead I backed off, and decided to come back later once I had sorted out the ongoing mineral crisis in my empire well enough to build some beam warships and finally kill the queen.
However I did notice that through the whole encounter the other aliens weren't launching missiles or even chasing my fleet. They didn't spend that many missiles killing my scout. So I don't know if they had spent all their ammunition trying to kill the queen or what.
It just seems really odd because I did an entire grav survey of the system and fought a prolonged engagement with the Swarm. But I didn't spot these other aliens until something like a month after that when I was checking to see what the Queen's range was and if I could lure her around for a possible mine ambush. So I don't if they were there all along and I simply didn't see them or if they came from another system.