I wouldn't buy this game until it's patched !, see here
The AI cheat and well last night i actually saw it happen right in front of my eyes on the same planet!
Firstly
Not much to see you think, Planet Lyra 13 Friendly fleets all looks perfectly normal. But what you don't see and i did was the fact that for every 1 of my fleet that I built, the ai built 4 fleets on four planets including LYRA. You'd think that he would have enough planets to do that but no he has 7 planets, that's 7 planets to build 4 fleets in the same amount of turns it took me to build 1 fleet across a number of planets. I had well a lot more planets I dominated one corner of the galaxy and my tech was far higher!. There was also no incoming fleets to those planets as I had the tech and hero abilities to see incoming fleets.
Secondly
Had finally got to Kais and with my destructive power of my high tech thanks to auto refit they were no match for me, atleast I thought so!. The battles just went on and on and on, with and endless supply of fleets from both races that I had got into war with. Where were these fleets coming from?, one such race that was attacking me had 1 fleet coming my way per every damn turn!, they were also stocking fleets at Scorpius notice the trail of fleets heading towards it, these were the yellow guys. I decided that this was a no win situation and decleared a CEASE FIRE!.
Thinking the enemy would finally stop the attacks I tried to leave the system but I couldn't, under cease fire it seems to be bugged whereby if you are in an enemy system under cease fire your fleet can't leave
The cheating started again, when the light blue guys were at 3 fleets left and the yellows at 9 by one turn... that's one turn the light blues were at 13 fleets and the yellows at 11!!. Considering i was stuck at the system, There was no fleets coming my way, not one fleet had jumped in my direction from the light blue guys. That's an entire 10 fleets built on the same system on one turn.
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