Stellaris - 241x - fallen empire awaken

I decided my best, easiest, hope was to take on one of the fallen empires before the awakened, having reached the fleet strength where they were likely to do so.

Unfortunately, it failed.

This development was very dramatic. A pop up described the fallen empire, saying having previous been moribund and uninvolved, their ships had been seen moving about the galaxy, and now they announced their return.

Their fleet power, previously two 50k fleets, went up to four 50k fleets, and then four 80k fleets. OK, um, that will be a challenge. My entire naval strength is only a bit better than one of those fleets.

I think my best tactics are:

* avoid engaging except when I have an advantage
* build up my fleet significantly over my fleet cap, the negative income from upkeep will go away when the fleet gets casualties
* wait for federation president, than massively build up the federation fleet (which may about equal my own strength)
* bait them with faster corvette fleets hitting their territory and if they pursue, try to keep their fleets busy chasing where they can't engage
* if I get a chance, get it and take their systems when their fleets aren't there

I don't have an open ascension perk left (I'd been saving one for terraforming). I don't know if it's worth taking the +30% against fallen empires perk, or if I'd be better taking one of the vanilla perks, or making sure I get the anti-end-game-crisis perk.

Friday Five

https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/81831.html

1. Do you like to reply to every comment in your journal?

My natural inclination is always to reply even if I don't have much to say :) And in fact, most of the time I do reply, even if it's just a "yes, that's interesting" or "thank you" or "good point" etc, because it seems friendly.

If I really have nothing to add, especially if I'm a little annoyed but feel like they didn't say anything wrong, I try to not reply, and to assume the comment can stand ok on its own.

2. What type of post gets the most/least responses in your journal?

The most responses are usually when a post is controversial, or goes on a tangent about some small-but-interesting point mentioned in passing :)

Nowadays, DW seems to get few comments at all, so many of my posts get no response. When comments were more usual, the ones that seemed to get few were when I posted diary-ish stuff that was mostly "what I did" without much "here's how I felt", and long posts where I tried to discuss some topic, but ended up rambly and didn't engage anyone.

3. What do you do when a new person first comments in your journal?

It's generally quite interesting! Nowadays, new commenters usually have something interesting to say, often it's "I saw your post on a friends' friend page" or "I saw your post on twitter or facebook" and then "I hope you don't mind me commenting, but I wanted to say..." and then usually something interesting about the topic.

I always make an effort to reply and be welcoming, and to say that comments like that are always welcome, and sometimes they stick around. If I got more vituperative comments, I'd be more zealous about screening comments from people.

4. When you're reading someone else's journal, do you read every comment before adding your own?

If there's a small to medium number of comments, I'm usually interested to read them. Although I've only slowly acquired the skill of thinking "I wanted to say this, but other people said it well already, so I don't need to say the same thing again" :)

If there's more comments, I try to skim to get a sense of the replies and search to see if anyone said the same thing I said, although I don't usually succeed perfectly.

5. When is "too late" to reply to an entry?

Never! That is, some conversations only make sense in real time. Comments saying "congratulations" or "I'm sorry, are you ok?" etc probably don't make sense retrospectively. But if you have something interesting to add, however small or minor, I welcome it even after decades :)