Anacreon Beta II Discussion Thread

[--Imperator--]

On a side note, does anyone know exactly how much social order penalty is imposed when attacking one world empires? Some guy very helpfully named his empire "D***head69's D***world" and his capital "GayNutSack56789" and I want him out of my space... why is this even allowed anyway haha

[AdmiralZo]

I want him out as well.

When I tried it, many of my worlds' social status dropped to dissatisfied or aggrieved, some rioting I think. But it all recovered after a few days.

[WorldsStrongestNerd]

I forget but I think it drops by 2 levels. If a world is at contented or happy it won't end up rebelling.

[Watch TV, Do Nothing]

There are no invincible empires. Autocracy of Order has been shattered, its economy destroyed and its jumpfleet annihilated! While many starship captains remain loyal, the one-time superpower will be hard-pressed to regroup after a crippling attack by the Imperium of Man.


(asdf has no capital so is not included in most metrics, but is still around and still has some nebular fleets. Since nobody else has any nebular fleets of any size right now I'm not showing these.)

It's been about three weeks since I did one of these updates. My understanding of the galactic situation since that time is:

• I (New Agraria) bought 170k Cyclops to attack asdf, taking out a few sector capitals but not completely destroying the empire. I lost a lot of the Cyclops attacking fortified sector capitals. asdf has remained pretty inactive since the attack. asdf got hit by the no-capital bug too.
• bugzzzzzzz and hoa0004 attacked me and pretty much wiped me out. I was on vacation and didn't put of much of a fight. bugzzzzzzz hit me pretty hard in the initial attack.
• I counterattacked bugzzzzzzz, snagging about 150k Gorgos from a defection and playing cat-and-mouse until my jumpfleets were caught and destroyed. bugzzzzzzz killed my remaining 68k Cyclops with what I think was a mass Eldritch attack, they didn't seem put up much of a fight. That attack took out my remaining transports and infantry. The remains of the defected Gorgos fleet are wandering around the galactic south getting eaten by attrition. New Agraria has no economy and only a bunch of scattered sector capitals.
• While I was fighting bugzzzzzzz, a new empire, Daedalus Foundation, busted one or possibly two of Autocracy's hubs in the far west. The hubs which apparently unguarded. Daedalus is dead now, either conquered or abdicated.
• Within the last 2 cycles, Human Imperium busted all the rest of Autocracy's clusters, apparently also taking some of Autocracy's Gorgos through defections. I don't know if Autocracy put up any sort of resistance to this attack. Autocracy has no jumpfleet left, although it still has a lot of starships and infantry and could hypothetically come back if it has any aes to buy transports
• The strongest intact empires remaining (with functioning jumpfleets, starships, infantry and economies) are Imperium of Man, hoa0004, and bugzzzzzzz.

Let me know if I left anything out.

[WorldsStrongestNerd]

To give a more detailed post mortum of the latest war, I decided to attack the Autocracy after someone else busted 2 or 3 of his sector capitals and provoked no responce. There was also no responce while I waged war, the autocracy appears to be inactive.

Despite all of that, I burned up a 7 million strong jumpship fleet and a 1 million minataur fleet and I still was only able to take 3 sector capitals. His strategy of parking gorgos on sector capitals and hubs worked very well. Had he been actively playing the my attack would not have been possible. He has also not reinforced his capitals in almost a month, most o his gorgos were still on the star yards.

Even now, if he has the patience to reorganize, the autocracy could be very dangerous.

[WorldsStrongestNerd]

Also, while we are all picking over the corpse of the galaxys mightiest empire, I claim the territory between the old autocracy capital and the Imperium of man border.

[--Imperator--]

So I assume all Autocracy worlds north of the great nebula are free to take? Excellent news and we commend the Human Imperium for their great conquest. It's a dog-eat-dog galaxy out there

[WorldsStrongestNerd]

Yes. I want to expand out my borders somewhat, but I'm not currently colonizing other parts of the galaxy.

[Watch TV, Do Nothing]

• Autocracy continued to decay in the past 6 cycles after Imperium of Man's attack, with no sign of any recovery.
• Meanwhile Imperium continued to consolidate gains and rebuilt its jumpfleet to pre-war strength. However, it has not resumed building Minotaur gunships.
• In contrast, bugzzzzzzz seems to have stepped up Minotaur production substantially and fields the largest gunship fleet in the galaxy by a wide margin. Gunships mount short-range cannons and are much slower than jumpships but much faster than starships. They have the same attrition as jumpships but are individually stronger and economically simpler to build. However, they lack missile defense. TL8 Minotaurs are much better than TL5 Sirius in literally every respect except unit cost. Gunships have been underwhelming in past wars and in combat tests against other ship classes and planetary defenses, but there may be undiscovered tactics that render them effective.
• The other Imperium, IMPERIUM, disappeared either to war or abdication.
• New Agraria bounced back from 8 worlds to 73, partly through a war of annihilation against NEWBIE. New Agraria's overall ship strength decreased due to attrition against its legacy Gorgos fleet, but it resumed building jumpships.
• Ontarion expanded significantly, both in total worlds and in military capacity. Ontarion now has the third-largest jumpfleet and third-largest ground force, surpassing hoa0004 and Telaris respectively.
• Since multiple empires now possess significant nebular holdings, I have resumed reporting ramjet strength.
• asdf is still around and still lacks a capital or any notable signs of activity.
• Cornet's starship strength grew around 500%, more than is reported in the chart. This kind of growth is common in small, young empires but usually isn't sustainable.

[Watch TV, Do Nothing]

• Ontarion's jumpfleet surpasses bugzzzzzzz's. The continued expansion of Ontarion in the galactic north is the most significant event of the past 4 cycles.
• Cornet doubled in size, but is still safely below the 100-world limit. At 100 worlds empires can't keep safely growing without adopting Law and Order.
• Telaris lost some Gorgos-class starships, not sure if attrition or combat is responsible. It was only a few thousand ships at most, but it showed up as a hit to Space Forces since Telaris doesn't have a major starship fleet to begin with.
• A number of smaller empires not currently being tracked have shown signs of expansion.

[Watch TV, Do Nothing]

The minor Stewjon empire has disappeared after promising recent expansion, and I have resumed my war with hoa0004.

[StarCrash]

Beta II looks going to be interesting. Let's hope the Capital Bug does not return.

[AdmiralZo]

Beta II looks going to be interesting.

It sure will be!

I reckon it will conclude the same way it did in Beta I. Empire will turn against empire, until the galaxy is filled with a bunch of uninhabitable worlds. It is already travelling in that direction. The recent collapse of the Autocracy, the war between Agraria and I, and the one between Ontarion and Bugzzzzzzz.

[Watch TV, Do Nothing]

Wars and more wars, death everywhere.

• I fought a mutually destructive war against Hoa0004 but my entire Gorgos fleet was destroyed in a decisive battle over the enemy homeworld and I'm now a spent force. Rather than rebuild the by-now-much-hated New Agraria yet again, I will abdicate and start anew in some fresh corner of the galaxy (if any remain).
• Ontarion seems to have fought a limited war with bugzzzzzzz, but I'm not sure who started it, what happened, or whether it's still going on. Most of the action took place in the Galactic North. Bugzzzzzzz lost a lot of jumpships and infantry but the insect empire's core worlds in the south don't seem to have been touched.
• Telaris lost planets to either bugzzzzzzzz or Ontarion- I haven't been paying enough attention to the North. Maps would be a helpful addition to these updates but I can't get the screenshot function to work with any of my browsers.
• THE ONE, which so far has been too small to include on this list, has been growing after a long period of inactivity.

[AdmiralZo]

•Ontarion seems to have fought a limited war with bugzzzzzzz

Ontarion started the war with a strike on bugzzzzzzz's nebular worlds, then began moving towards his other worlds. Buzzzzzzz soon returned fire, with heavy losses on both sides.

They eventually called for a truce, and I think it has been peaceful since then.