FreedomFighterEx wrote:
mix weapon in same ship is cool but not good idea, neither with fleet too, just go all out with sheer number of Missile!!!

AI likely to mix fleet that made us headache but in term of real use it's not effective, it's just annoying when they do to us.

Last time Cravers used about 100 kinetic and twice 200 missle power fleet. Fight ended with 4 destroyers downed and 2 crusiers with 20%HP from my side. Cravers lost like 2 destroyers and rest of their fleet was with 45% to 60% hp (few destroyers and like 3 crusiers. They spammend everytime Magnetic Field action. Ofcoure their fleet is always bigger Fighting with other races is not so hard but not succesfull either.

eBusiness wrote:
So that means you only colonize Terran, Jungle, and Ocean?



All planets are colonization-worthy at some point, in general you should colonize a new planet as soon as the other ones in a system are full, unless you can't deal with the happiness loss.

From lower tiers im picking planets with wonders, usefull anomalies (with aprovall bonus for example) or resources.

Screen:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=119677086

Everythingi s cool exept Oyera with I saw when I uploaded screen. Need to fix

Lenon wrote:
Yeap Im doing it if other planets are tier 1.

So that means you only colonize Terran, Jungle, and Ocean?



All planets are colonization-worthy at some point, in general you should colonize a new planet as soon as the other ones in a system are full, unless you can't deal with the happiness loss.

mix weapon in same ship is cool but not good idea, neither with fleet too, just go all out with sheer number of Missile!!!

AI likely to mix fleet that made us headache but in term of real use it's not effective, it's just annoying when they do to us.

Uhm I have turn 122 or something. Got fleet with 11 CP (3 cruziers with repair rest destroyers all missile) and Cravers have 19 CP Should I send glass ships before main fleet?

I've blocked WH with planet on my side coz my part universe is enough for me.



About kinetic fleets.

I tried kinetic fleets with some missile modules and it was not good idea, lost most battles with equal strenght enemy forces. So question still remains: is AI using same weapons modules all the time for each race?

Missile fleet have problem try to finish off low hp fleet, most of time they use "Retreat" card and you won't be able to finish them, suggest to have "Finish Them" fleet that load only Kinetic or Beam or if your Missile Fleet uber enough to one shot them out then no need to have clean up fleet.



for me i try to expand out of wormhole real fast and see if i can grab any system there, find out where other race are then i just block their wormhole.

Ehhh...

Yeap Im making/upgrading ships also upgrading from fleet panel.

Yeap Im doing it if other planets are tier 1.

Balancing all the time (in military focusing mostly on rockets).

Food/industry depend from planet, later dust/science.

Got 2 scouts until turn 80 mostly.

All like in book.

It is hard to know what you are doing wrong. A few wild guesses:

• Are you aware that there is a ship designer and you have to use it to create new or update old ship designs in order to be able to produce ships that implement what you have researched?
• Are you aware that you can colonize multiple planets in each system?
• Do you use a sensible research order? Approximately balanced between the branches, possibly with some overweight in the right and left branch early in the game.
• Do you use a good build order for new systems? That should usually be focusing on production first, mix it with food, and once it is running reasonably get some dust and science improvements as well.
• Have you overbuilt military? You shouldn't have a big fleet in the early part of the game.
  
  

There are many other mistakes you can make, but on the easy levels there should be room for a lot of them.