I stink at this game and I need help!

Ive played several times on medium-large random against 5 AI's..

Everygame after about 2 hours, it seems like Im getting attacked by pirates, and 2 AI's fleets are attacking 2 different planets of mine. I can't fight 2 fleets of equal size to my 1 at the same time...

It appears that my missile/Gauss platforms that I have loaded up around the planets do nothing to stop the enemy. Fighters can take them out. Usually play as Vassari. Im usually slightly ahead in fleet research and focus early on shields, hull, weapons, and resource upgrades, trading outposts. The enemy attacks with 20 frigates and 2 capital ships.

What am I doing wrong? I have been thinking about trying to make allies, but they demand I attack some platforms of another race somewhere far off I dont know where it is, and I have enough problems defending myself. They keep making demands of attacking someone or high levels of resources I cant fulfill and then they're back at 0% friendly.

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You can turn off Pirates if you want at the start of the game.

If you open the pirate screen at the bottom is the time till next pirate attack and you can increase bounty on the other players there so that the pirates target them not you.

I always make sure to over lap the area of effect on my defenses slighty so that one radius just covers the other Missile/Gauss defense. Keep at least 1 or 2 defense close to the planet to help defend against siege.

Allies are not that important but they do help if you can get one.

Keep an eye out for offers and see if more than one AI is targeting the same AI so you can get an increase from more than one AI be targeting just one AI.

Hope those tips help.

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Well... mostly the AI can ally with each other JUST to screw you....

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why not learn the game first byu\ doing a 1v1 then 2v2 then 1v2, 1v3. You are basically playing an ffa game which is harder to learn from cause as you learned you get attacked by multiple AI's at the same time.

hint: Phase gates will allow you to quickly move your fleet around planets thats need protection.

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if you are playing as vasari just build phase stabilzers on all planets and then have several planets as "fleet bases" where good poritons of your fleet are concentrated. enemy attacks you jump in large force

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I too would like to suggest trying with fewer AIs. Or play with Locked Teams. I like to lock every AI in as its own team. No alliances. That way they are fighting each other too!

For defenses, it is a good idea to overlap them. Include some repair platforms as well. Overlap the repairs too, so that your defenses are being fixed by 2 repair platforms at the same time. Those guns will last a lot longer.

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Like McSpanky said, first lock the teams. Second, consider giving yourself an allie ai. Consider spending your credits more on ships than defense, use the credits to create a reponse fleet with a cap ship so it can gain experience by swatting the pirates. Consider a good 2X2 like Devil's Cauldron or Fire and Ice.

Winning will beget winning.

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