After playing a rather long game, it has come to my attention that the random encounter the Swarm needs adjusted. If the swarm gets out and takes over a few system, unfortunately the AI does such a bad job fighting them, that they tend to populate and become a big problem. What is even a bigger problem is if they are so far away, that they just keep sending swarm wave after wave after you, but you do not have the technology to get to them anytime soon. This not only becomes a nuisance, but it makes the game less enjoyable. A few swarms every once in a while is fine. Getting hit by them from across an 8 player game, getting hit at the same systems every 3 turns because the computer players will just fail to take them out over and over, sucks. I tried turning the random encounters down, but if you get the swarm and they take systems, it won't matter, this problem still pops up.
This wouldn't be as big as a problem if when you hit "automatic" on the fleet combat if it actually did a good job killing them when it had the firepower but it doesn't. If you watch the combat play out, most of the time your fleet will do this dumb move where they send out a single scout, which triggers the swarm, and then the rest of your fleet is so far away, that it won't get there before the combat is finished, and so you are left with a swarm infested system when you easily had a powerful enough fleet to deal with it, even if you had just said "just attack them blindly with everything we got".
So either: 1. Adjust the rate they work so they are not a nuisance. They make the game suck. or 2. Make the Automatic setting on combat work better so we can just hit "automatic' and not have to run the fight every time.
This wouldn't be as big as a problem if when you hit "automatic" on the fleet combat if it actually did a good job killing them when it had the firepower but it doesn't. If you watch the combat play out, most of the time your fleet will do this dumb move where they send out a single scout, which triggers the swarm, and then the rest of your fleet is so far away, that it won't get there before the combat is finished, and so you are left with a swarm infested system when you easily had a powerful enough fleet to deal with it, even if you had just said "just attack them blindly with everything we got".
So either: 1. Adjust the rate they work so they are not a nuisance. They make the game suck. or 2. Make the Automatic setting on combat work better so we can just hit "automatic' and not have to run the fight every time.
