Arceans in 1.3

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In 1.2 and before, all races had their own special advantages, but they seemed to even eachother out. Now in 1.3, the Arceans are unstoppable on the higher difficulty settings. Okay, maybe not unstoppable, but they are extremely hard to beat. Just as an experiment, I started a game and set 8 opponents to simple and then the Arceans to dunce.

This should have given the other races a large leap over the Arceans. However, when I started the game, the Arceans quickly destroyed 2 other races. Their influence and population were similar to mine. On dunce! Their military was easy to destroy for me, but everyone else was defencless almost.

I never had this problam on the other versions. So is there something wrong with the Arceans in 1.3?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
it's entirely possible that the Arceans had a string of good luck and got powerful planets with high bonuses such as precursor mines, etc.

With every game, there is a possibility of a race getting such good luck that they become an exception to the norm of what usually happens to them.

Sort of like once when the Thalans, normally around average but not neccesarily the strongest military, managed to get very powerful military wise and just soared over everybody else, including me in one game (before the 1.3 betas I think).
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well i just finish mi first 1.3 game, yea somethings up with the Arceans but its the other way for me. I and the Drengs split all the others civs during the game, from start the Arceans where the moust poverfull but just took 1 other civ in all the game. Even thought they where the strongest the didnt do anything at all just send some ship to me at a time and to the drengs at the finish. Half of the game i was in war with drengs, thats y the arcfens even have 4 worlds remain the moust powerfull even up to theres defet at the end. When i star crushing the drengs they star sending them, ships but that dint change the outcome, so when i go for them they had like 15 fleets that at these point doing 80+ of the reserch i destroy losing just a few ships in my 5 fleets, once they where gone the surend.
Well the war with the drengs was great anyway.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
So is there something wrong with the Arceans in 1.3?


I believe the Arcean AI got improved 1n 1.3, so they should play a much better game.

The Terran alliance's AI got improved considerably as well (I am playing in a 1,3 game with them now), they r awesome. Also the Drath, Iconian Refuge, Thalans use Terran Alliance AI with slight changes (effectively subclasses), so they will all play much better.

Frogboy said all this in a recent Forum article.

Hope this explains things.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Really? I made them my bitches in the first 1.3 I played. And they surrendered to me.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Im playing as the Korx,the Arcean's have more ships,planets,influence etc than I do and therefore more fleets (i had 8 planets they had 17)

But I managed to easily weaken them,there down to 5 planets and ive taken severl colonies inc there home world,all starbase resources and ecnomic and manufucturing caps,but i noticed they were using "relaxed" tactics and wernt as aggresive as i thought,in comparison they should have and could have destroyed me,but the way the AI plyed as Arceans was a bit odd,im playing on tough on gig map with all races.

For example I had a defenselss econ starbase,which they didnt destroy even though there ship course showed that is what they were going after,i diverted my fleet and took them out..
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's totally the torians in my game. they started by somehow outcolonizing me by 20 planets, unheard of with them on bright in the past. Then they opened up a can on the drengin and korx, which my giving them both ships didn't help much(I saw the threat and tried to help the others). Only category i have stayed ahead of them in is research by setting it at 70%. That will be the difference though, cause when i decided to knock them down a peg, my 100 ships are ripping through their 900.