My First Multiplayer Experience

Published on February 7, 2008 By Heidelun In Sins of a Solar Empire

it was FFA match with 4 people.

We began building up forces and infrastructure for about 60~120min.

1 got disconnected about after an hour.

I saw that other Advent player just spammed one type of ship you get at the beginning of the game
and had like 4 cap ships. My ships were various types, not just 1 type. i was out numbered 1 to 2 since I spend more money on getting other ship types.

I decided to attack the other player and got wiped out.
He just focus fired on all of my cap ship and took them out easily.
Fleet with mixed ship types didn't help at all.

later, I spent all my money to spam out early units for a final defense.
It was doing well against the enemy forces until some plasma cannon from the enemy cap ship whipped them all out at once... Thats when I found out that since ships doesn't move and stay concentrated in one area, strong cap ship ability can whip them out easily...

Later i found out two of them formed an Alliance. guess they decided to end the match since game was going for more than 2 hours. Both of them had pretty large fleets built up.

This is my first multiplayer match and it seems quite disappointing.

- No point in researching other types of attack ships
- spam early ship from beginning to end
- spreading culture seems completely useless even I didn't try it.

It seems that early ship spam works because you can spend money on research to improve only one ship type.
Its cheap so ships can be built more.

Does 1 type spam always work in most of MP games?
if so, I really hope in the future patch that spamming one type of ship = bad vs multi type fleets.

Oh, and what does culture do exactly? beside not being able to take over enemy planets.

Btw any future plan on applying cap ship rank to normal ships which makes them more stronger will be really nice.

Comments

Heidelun

on Feb 07, 2008

RonLugge

on Feb 07, 2008

Oh, and what does culture do exactly? beside not being able to take over enemy planets.

It changes planetary allegiance -- all income is modified by the allegiance percentage, and if allegiance hits zero the planet de-colonizes and becomes neutral.

That said, spamming one type of ship can be powerful, but a balanced force can often shred it. Carrier spam can be beaten by flaks, and there are ways to beat other spams.

Edger45

on Feb 07, 2008

I agree with you in the building of all the same early ship is annoying and seems to beat multi ship fleets. You put all your strategy and thinking in building a perfect fleet and then someone just build a ton of the same ship and does just as good.

Culture gives a boost in firepower I think and there might be one other thing

duhman02

on Feb 07, 2008

I think the mistake you made is placing too much faith in your selection of ships. While it's important to have support craft, don't build too many. In fact, if your fleet is not comprised 4/5ths of direct attack craft, you might want to ask yourself the question, "why?"

In this sense, a balanced fleet (the term is misleading) would be something like a nice number of meatshields, nice groups of carriers, some low level unit spam (I like the advent low level unit and their antimatter transfer), some long range attack units, maybe... 2-3 anti-fighter units, and perhaps one or two of every support unit if you can be bothered. In a sense, you can ask yourself this, "Even with all these cool powers my ships can do, if they can't outshoot the enemy, what's the point?"

If you notice him manually targeting your capship with all his units (really, you should do this immediately as it makes the most tactical sense), just unleash all your bombers on his. He'll fall first unless you were severely outnumbered (3 to 1) in the first place.

Oh, and something interesting to note. Low level ship spams are stupidly easy to kill. In fact, if you avoid engaging his fleet directly and just ran around in circles in the gravity well, your forces will actually disintegrate his fleet completely through indirect combat (ergo, bombers and LRM). The only chance he will be able to catch up with you is to send his fleet spam ahead without the capital ship, which would be funny as hell and you can use that time to wipe them out with impunity, gain a good chunk of experience, then chase after his retreating, brainless capital ship.

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