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If it isn't, then I have to micro my old and very outdated missile ships (and like, 2 missile ships that can actually chase) to blow up the FAC balls instead, which will be...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.
