Posted by: Pallington
« on: June 27, 2025, 10:30:27 PM »I'm fighting a swarm that I spawned in an allied NPR's system (because that npr had WAY too many ships and why not) but as it turns out, my burn ratio and engine% is significantly below the Star Swarm's defaults (Beam Core tech level). I DO have faster ships in production but they're going to take a while.
Is it possible to starve out star swarm when they refuse to engage your ships? I know one big source of their income is scrapping ships so I'm going around nuking whatever big and slow ships I see, but do they also have planetside sources, especially stealthy ones without EM/Thermal emissions? The NPR is slowly whittling away at the hive guards as well, and will eventually corral and whittle down the FAC balls... hopefully.
If it is, then I can wait for my faster ships to complete and then go over and blow up the FAC balls in one clean hit each, I just have to whack-a-mole the occasional salvage craft.
If it isn't, then I have to micro my old and very outdated missile ships (and like, 2 missile ships that can actually chase) to blow up the FAC balls instead, which will be... painful, to say the least.
Is it possible to starve out star swarm when they refuse to engage your ships? I know one big source of their income is scrapping ships so I'm going around nuking whatever big and slow ships I see, but do they also have planetside sources, especially stealthy ones without EM/Thermal emissions? The NPR is slowly whittling away at the hive guards as well, and will eventually corral and whittle down the FAC balls... hopefully.
If it is, then I can wait for my faster ships to complete and then go over and blow up the FAC balls in one clean hit each, I just have to whack-a-mole the occasional salvage craft.
If it isn't, then I have to micro my old and very outdated missile ships (and like, 2 missile ships that can actually chase) to blow up the FAC balls instead, which will be... painful, to say the least.
