r/SoSE

For context I mostly play advent wrath against hard ai.

Lately it feels like my two closest ai neighbours both invade me at the same time and I'm only capable of beating one fleet before another has taken a system or two. As it's early game I don't have the resources to invest in defence, and even if I did it doesn't do anything but slow them down. I usually invest a lot of my early game resources into a fleet but it's still only capable of comfortably beating one ai fleet at a time. What am I doing wrong?

I tried using the RRR 5.7.2B and it's high supply submod but it's just not enough when I try using it for larger maps. And then the other supplies mods either crash when loading the game or it just doesn't let you use the Titan (TEC enclave) and some Research is just missing.

So yeah need help finding an mod that lets you build the Titans and won't crash the game on start up.

Note (it probably not my computer because it can run just about anything)

Ever since 2008, there is one question that every Sins of a Solar Empire player has asked himself at some point:

>If the mysterious force chasing the Vasari has destroyed the ancient Vasari Empire without their mighty Dark Armada even slowing them down, how do we stop this?

With the revelation of the Eidolon, we are a lot closer to an answer. The answer lays in one of the most basic rules of strategy:

>If you are in a disadvantageous situation, change the situation before you engage the enemy.

Or as the Sith Lord Scourge from Star Wars put it:

>Fighting a battle I can’t win isn’t brave, it’s stupid

We know that the Eidolon live in some kind of other dimension, parallel universe, phase space, or some other kind of alternate reality, called “corruption”. As long as they are in that state, they are likely untouchable, perhaps even undetectable. That’s likely how they managed to kill the Vasari Empire so fast, without ever loosing a fight, without ever failing in taking an objective, only once leaving a ship full of survivors that had been driven to madness. Their weapons simply didn’t work. It was like fighting ghosts that can kill you while your own weapons just go trough them without any effect.

That’s the battle we cannot win. That’s the battle we need to change. Before we can engage the Eidolon, we need to figure out a way to draw them out of their “corruption” into real space. I think its very likely that once we achieve that, they die just like anyone else. It would be like the undead pirate crew in the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie: Once the curse of the Aztec Gold is lifted, the undead, undying pirates are utterly vulnerable.

Are there any plans to overhaul the research UI? From a Rebellion player, I find the screen way too hard to follow / learn, everything is very small, requires scrolling, and the images are unhelpful. For a game where research is a core aspect, it is very hard to follow.

I feel like the tiles should be way larger, with more obvious art, and with significantly better use of the screen space, there's so much dead space on screen, and instead users have to scroll!!!

Busy with gears of war e day beta then stars wars zero company, war thunder and Pax Autocratica for sci fi hoi4 tno authoritian politics with anno colony sim and big battles .

then dawnwalker really lol .

From what little we know about them in the Lore, the Eidolon are the absolute Vasari Killers. Everything we know about them indicates that Vasari stand absolutely zero chance against the Eidolon. These guys annihilated the ancient Vasari Empire, wiped out their Dark Armada, and made the few survivors run for their lives.

There might be ways for TEC and Advent to fight them. But how can the game possibly balance them fighting against Vasari?

So i played tec again after a long time and I noticed that the Kol has special shields to prevent shield piercing. Why dont advent have something like that? I mean they are the shieldmains in sins and are supposed to be more technological advanced than the tec.

How about something like shield strenght. Basically like the Extra toughness on armor but in weaker for shields?

Or like the armor Upgrades that tec have but for shields (like -35 % rocket damage etc.)

While my mother was in labor, my father received a message ordering all soldiers and reserves to report to their bases. He thought it was a pirate attack on our world, and he left in a hurry, promising to return to her side as soon as he was able to. It wasn’t a pirate attack. And I was five years old when I first met him. The Vasari had come to human space. My dad was one of the first generation. A brave war hero who stopped their advance and bought the Trade order time to form into the TEC. When he was sent home, we had a short illusion of hope, before the Advent attacked and he was forced to get back out into the galaxy to fight for us.

When I was seventeen, I joined the fight myself. For almost twenty years, I fought the Advent. While these weak cowards of the Enclave hid behind their starbases, the true Trader Emergency Coalition, now calling ourselves the TEC Primacy, kept bringing the fight to the Deviants. Deviants. Even that name sounds strange now.

Five years ago, I met Magnolia. She was one of the new colonists we brought to Kalaria, a barren planet we had driven the Advent from not too long before. She was a farmer, and her family managed to sustain a small farm with the limited water the atmospheric condensers produced. One more step in reclaiming a world rightfully belonging to our people. That’s what we thought at the time. There was something between the two of us almost from the beginning. Two years later, we were married. It has never been easy, her being on the farm back on Kalaria and me coming by only every few weeks, sometimes rarer if our war against the Advent demanded me to be elsewhere. But we managed.

It was while I was home that everything changed. In a brilliant strategic diversion plan, the Advent drew our fleet far from Kalaria and attacked our world with a force containing multiple capital ships, lead by an Eradica class Titan. The starbase fell within minutes, and within the hour, they landed on our world.

I know I was supposed to report to the nearest unit to join the defense, but it was clear that we had no chance. All I could think of was keeping Magnolia and the girls safe. Even though I didn’t knew why at the time, I did know that the Advent fleets containing Oblivia Dreadnoughts and Coronata Titans always targeted our cities with heavy bombardment while the fleets including Justicia Dreadnoughts and Eradica Titans targeted military installations, leaving the cities mostly intact. Therefore, I figured Magnolia and the girls would be safest right here in our farmhouse, neither in the blast radius of any military installation nor close to any of the major population centers.

Two days after the initial invasion, they came to our house. A tall, light skinned woman in a white robe, her eyes glowing unnaturally. She was escorted by five men in metal armor, covering their faces completely. I aimed my plasma rifle and yelled for her not to come any closer. She barely moved two fingers, and her enormous telekinetic powers ripped the weapon from my hands. They went into our house and grabbed Magnolia and the girls, and me too. I tried fighting them, but I couldn’t move under the woman’s powerful telekinetic force keeping me down. I helplessly watched as they escorted us away into different directions, and I heard Magnolia scream as they took our girls from her.

The Advent woman looked at me, offering a warm smile, despite what was happening right then and there. “Do not be afraid” she said to me. And as the armored men led me away, she added “you will see them again, and you will be closer to them than you ever where, once we opened your eyes.”

I was led into one of their improvised buildings they set up on our world. A clean, metallic structure made of metallic floors and walls. It didn’t look like a prison or a torture chamber, but more like a hospital. There were stories about the horrific, devious experiments the Advent did. I should have been freaking out the moment I realized they were about to do some of their deranged experiments on me, and probably did the same to my wife and my little girls at the moment, but I felt a strange calm being around the telepaths. Almost like being sedated. I simply lay down on their operating table and closed my eyes.

When I woke up, the world was no longer the same. I could hear the Advent talking to me, but not with their tongues. I could hear their thoughts, and they could hear mine. It was strange and intimidating at first, but also beautiful. We always thought them to be twisted deviants, but it turned out they actually seek harmony in all things. A corrupting influence had caused the Unity to attack the Traders in hatred, but we would soon restore the harmony that was the Unity’s true purpose. We. Not they. That’s right. They had changed my brain and mind, opening my soul to a reality far greater than anything I ever experienced. As the woman back on our house had promised, my wife and my children were fine. I hadn’t met them yet, but I just knew. I could feel their calm thoughts. They had been given the same gift as I. When I was first liked to the hive mind, that was an experience I simply cannot put into words.

We were no longer what the Primacy considered human tough. My former brothers in arms would kill me on sight. It has been six months since my family and I joined the Unity. Our understanding of what really matters has grown more in six months than in the thirty-five years I have lived before. Even the girls are already learning to do basic things with their new powers. As for me, I am trained in the arts of telekinesis, to join the damage control team on a new radiance battleship as soon as its construction is finished. Soon, I will join the crusade of enlightenment. I hope we find my father. I hope we can show him the light, just as it was shown to me.