Version 9.0 Extremely Powerful and Aggressive Xenon
I am a new player and I think I need a reality check. Every one of the posts on this subreddit has many folks complaining that the Xenon are too weak and that they're a non-factor, non-issue. This is my second playthrough where I am having the complete opposite experience. In fact, this second playthrough is worse than the first. This all happened very quickly, within the first 10-20 hours of IRL game time.
Hatikva's Choice I - completely wiped out. In fact, they own it now. All ARG/ANT sectors are under constant attack, factories constantly destroyed, any ship entering and exiting harassed to the point of non-viability. I have to completely avoid that side of the map. For some reason, those two factions decided to stop building military ships. Now they're overwhelmed, resource starved, and cannot build even if they wanted to. In contrast, HOP and PAR are swimming in capital ships. TEL/MIN are also armed to the teeth. I don't know how much longer that will last.
I guess I'm just trying to figure out if this is normal, or if I did something wrong. I just want to be able to continue to build my factories and eventually get a military to fight them back into their hellholes. FWIW - I am playing vanilla X4 with no DLC enabled. Thank you.