Are you serious? I had an enemy Kortul Devastator stand toe to toe against my two Kol Battleships until he popped. We were also at the very esgeof the gravity well the whole time. He could have easily escaped... but he didn't. Of course it still runs, but definetly not as much as before. And if you're expecting it to always stay and fight then that's just absurd. No one will consiously stay to get beat everytime. I havn't seen it surrender yet, but if they did add the surrender option to the AI then hopefully it would surrender before reaching the point of constant retreat. I think the surrender ability may need improvement intstead of the reatreating AI.
That is on a very small scale, however. The problem with the AI running happens in mostly large scale engagements. You can't defend the fact the AI will spend X amount of money and Y amount of crystal/metal on a planet, then just abandon it as soon as an enemy fleet that even slightly outnumbers it jumps in (I mean, that's just silly. They just wasted all those resources if they won't defend it). Shouldn't a hard AI be able to use his planets defenses/extra fighter squads to his advantage, and at least draw a fight out long enough to bring reinforcements? Either that or retreat and come back with more ships? Maybe try to assassinate one of my capitol ships, like my colony cap ship, and run? No, that never happens, instead they just run, and then sit at the next planet for 20 minutes while you nuke and colonize his valuable planet. Then, you can repeat the process, because the AI won't rally forces to face you (until you nuke his home planet).
Maybe the problem could be corrected if the computer could actually assemble a decent fleet late in games? It seems they forget how important capitol ships are, and think that spamming support cruisers and light frigates are the keys to victory.
Thanks captain obvious. See how there are 2 more planets listed at the bottom of the screenshot entity inventory? There's no way those could have just been overtaken and destroyed by the 3 fleet magic AI alliance. No. Of course I must be some kind of retard.Thanks!
Did you even read the rest of my post? Whatever.
I guess I'll keep being captain obvious, because you obviously didn't do those things: expand quickly and fortify your exterior planets, otherwise you wouldn't be in that position. It's not like those AI fleets where very formidable, there's only one capitol ship and some light frigates. That's what wiped your planets out? The AI gangs up on me too sometimes but I don't come to the the forums and complain because it's not that hard to handle. And this is not new to 1.03, it happened to me the very first game I played on release day.
Maybe your problem is your using the Vasari, which kind of took a hit in economic power with this patch, and therefor might be tougher for less experienced players to be successful with.
I made a post that had legitimate suggestions, and you give me sarcastic bullshit. If you don't want suggestions then don't make posts like this.