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Offline Herodotus4 (OP)

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Is this what I think it is?
« on: June 04, 2016, 09:51:09 AM »
I am 12 years into my game and I sent my GSV through a jump point only to find some angry aliens on the other side. I jumped it back through and assigned a team to try to make contact. After a few days a ship with 600 shields jumped through that jump point and I am currently trying to bait it our towards pluto using my gsv. Is it even worth trying to talk to these guys or am I just screwed because I have no military.
Edit: well, I answered my own question. I did scrape up a few PDCs and kill the 60,000 ton doom carrier but then I did not have the ability to kill the FAVs
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Re: Is this what I think it is?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2016, 11:59:09 AM »
We all have probobly had this problem... 😉😆
If you have put in alot of effort  to get this far, SM a bunch of small pdc with several small long range anti ship missiles, dont  forget a sensor that can see the small ships.
Have fun.
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Re: Is this what I think it is?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2016, 01:37:55 AM »
The babies are going to be rather pissed off that you killed momma.
" Why is this godforsaken hellhole worth dying for? "
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Re: Is this what I think it is?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2016, 05:41:32 AM »
Woah, the big ones can jump?!
Sure glad my jump point management tactics have been useful. Though I wonder, does a jump point get revealed to an empire by watching someone leave through it, or enter through it?
 

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Re: Is this what I think it is?
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2016, 07:54:27 AM »
Woah, the big ones can jump?!
Sure glad my jump point management tactics have been useful. Though I wonder, does a jump point get revealed to an empire by watching someone leave through it, or enter through it?
I tried to open diplomatic communication with the star swarm, my idiot diplomats probably thought it was a gesture of good faith. Since then I have always built PDCs on earth that can do a bit over 600 damage per salvo and have "amm" sensors to pick up the FACs at 10,000,000 kilometers. I just wish I was allowed to ram because I could have killed it that way.
 

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Re: Is this what I think it is?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2016, 01:36:00 PM »
I tried to open diplomatic communication with the star swarm, my idiot diplomats probably thought it was a gesture of good faith. Since then I have always built PDCs on earth that can do a bit over 600 damage per salvo and have "amm" sensors to pick up the FACs at 10,000,000 kilometers. I just wish I was allowed to ram because I could have killed it that way.
That could easily become overpowered though. Or were you thinking of ramming with a big commercial freighter? That would be a pretty cool way of squishing a bug!
 

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Re: Is this what I think it is?
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2016, 04:14:23 PM »
That could easily become overpowered though. Or were you thinking of ramming with a big commercial freighter? That would be a pretty cool way of squishing a bug!
I had 6 ships, a 6000 ton 16000 kps Geo and grav survey ship and 5 32,000 ton 1500 kps freighters. I was going to do an attack with all of them at the same time.