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Playing on Captain difficulty for the first time. I got to 2300 thinking I’m doing fine, I’ve vassalized everyone near me, I have the strongest economy and naval power…. then suddenly I’ve got multiple 90K nanite fleets storming out of the L Gates. I stealth up and send in the ninjas, but the fleet gets cut to ribbons by half a dozen 90K fleets as soon as it comes out of stealth to attack the nanite base.

I want to play on higher difficulties because I’m curbstomping all the AI empires every time, which is boring, but I genuinely don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. I don’t see how I could get enough fleet power together to handle stuff that powerful coming out that early. It feels like the AI empires are getting a slight bump while the crisis fleets get insane immediate bonuses.

Any thoughts? I’m considering fooling with the more granular difficulty sliders before next run

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Someone mentioned it and I’d like to confirm in case I decide to pull the trigger, thank you for your help!

I started playing a few weeks ago and I’m really impressed. However, I’ve been doing Random Empire runs to let the game surprise me and almost every run has been somewhat similar? I’ve only gotten Scourge and Contingency crisises after 4 playthroughs and I notice for some reason the first archaeology I find is always Message in a Bottle. Is there something I could be doing that causes the same ones to spawn every time or is that all there is in the base game rn?

Anyways I’m going to pick an origin today, maybe KotTG or the ringworld one, but I was mostly wondering if there is anything I can do to make the game insert new elements into the next Empire I build.