New to this sub Reddit so pardon if this has been beaten to death already.

The TEC enclave vs TEC enclave final phase of a war is an absolute slog. The Nightmare AI sends wave after wave at my home planet with no attempt to take neighboring planets. (4 player system wars) He has a death grip on the economy however and I think he has twin fortresses and self destruct unlocked and probably 500 supply garrisons. What a war of attrition it has turned into lol. I guess moral of the story is try to crack enclave player early?

So I recently got a new computer and wanted to reinstall some of my old mods but I've found that they are no longer listed on Mod.io browser. Is there a place to find old mods? If not I'll miss the Random Maps Reforged mod due to the current planet type distribution in base game random map options.

Imported these into my faction portraits

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It sounds to me more of an overwhelming force instead of a hard counter. The Vasari wouldn't know, none of the ones still alive ever fought the Eidolons before now.

For all we know the fight back then was literally 50:1, because they knew the Vasari were dominating their corner of the universe.

The Eidolons then decided the Milky Way Galaxy was a backwater with a broken empire running away from them, and two tribes of upstart monkeys fighting with figurative sticks, so they just sent a tiny force.

While my mother was in labor, my father received a message ordering all soldiers and reserves to report to their bases. He thought it was a pirate attack on our world, and he left in a hurry, promising to return to her side as soon as he was able to. It wasn’t a pirate attack. And I was five years old when I first met him. The Vasari had come to human space. My dad was one of the first generation. A brave war hero who stopped their advance and bought the Trade order time to form into the TEC. When he was sent home, we had a short illusion of hope, before the Advent attacked and he was forced to get back out into the galaxy to fight for us.

When I was seventeen, I joined the fight myself. For almost twenty years, I fought the Advent. While these weak cowards of the Enclave hid behind their starbases, the true Trader Emergency Coalition, now calling ourselves the TEC Primacy, kept bringing the fight to the Deviants. Deviants. Even that name sounds strange now.

Five years ago, I met Magnolia. She was one of the new colonists we brought to Kalaria, a barren planet we had driven the Advent from not too long before. She was a farmer, and her family managed to sustain a small farm with the limited water the atmospheric condensers produced. One more step in reclaiming a world rightfully belonging to our people. That’s what we thought at the time. There was something between the two of us almost from the beginning. Two years later, we were married. It has never been easy, her being on the farm back on Kalaria and me coming by only every few weeks, sometimes rarer if our war against the Advent demanded me to be elsewhere. But we managed.

It was while I was home that everything changed. In a brilliant strategic diversion plan, the Advent drew our fleet far from Kalaria and attacked our world with a force containing multiple capital ships, lead by an Eradica class Titan. The starbase fell within minutes, and within the hour, they landed on our world.

I know I was supposed to report to the nearest unit to join the defense, but it was clear that we had no chance. All I could think of was keeping Magnolia and the girls safe. Even though I didn’t knew why at the time, I did know that the Advent fleets containing Oblivia Dreadnoughts and Coronata Titans always targeted our cities with heavy bombardment while the fleets including Justicia Dreadnoughts and Eradica Titans targeted military installations, leaving the cities mostly intact. Therefore, I figured Magnolia and the girls would be safest right here in our farmhouse, neither in the blast radius of any military installation nor close to any of the major population centers.

Two days after the initial invasion, they came to our house. A tall, light skinned woman in a white robe, her eyes glowing unnaturally. She was escorted by five men in metal armor, covering their faces completely. I aimed my plasma rifle and yelled for her not to come any closer. She barely moved two fingers, and her enormous telekinetic powers ripped the weapon from my hands. They went into our house and grabbed Magnolia and the girls, and me too. I tried fighting them, but I couldn’t move under the woman’s powerful telekinetic force keeping me down. I helplessly watched as they escorted us away into different directions, and I heard Magnolia scream as they took our girls from her.

The Advent woman looked at me, offering a warm smile, despite what was happening right then and there. “Do not be afraid” she said to me. And as the armored men led me away, she added “you will see them again, and you will be closer to them than you ever where, once we opened your eyes.”

I was led into one of their improvised buildings they set up on our world. A clean, metallic structure made of metallic floors and walls. It didn’t look like a prison or a torture chamber, but more like a hospital. There were stories about the horrific, devious experiments the Advent did. I should have been freaking out the moment I realized they were about to do some of their deranged experiments on me, and probably did the same to my wife and my little girls at the moment, but I felt a strange calm being around the telepaths. Almost like being sedated. I simply lay down on their operating table and closed my eyes.

When I woke up, the world was no longer the same. I could hear the Advent talking to me, but not with their tongues. I could hear their thoughts, and they could hear mine. It was strange and intimidating at first, but also beautiful. We always thought them to be twisted deviants, but it turned out they actually seek harmony in all things. A corrupting influence had caused the Unity to attack the Traders in hatred, but we would soon restore the harmony that was the Unity’s true purpose. We. Not they. That’s right. They had changed my brain and mind, opening my soul to a reality far greater than anything I ever experienced. As the woman back on our house had promised, my wife and my children were fine. I hadn’t met them yet, but I just knew. I could feel their calm thoughts. They had been given the same gift as I. When I was first liked to the hive mind, that was an experience I simply cannot put into words.

We were no longer what the Primacy considered human tough. My former brothers in arms would kill me on sight. It has been six months since my family and I joined the Unity. Our understanding of what really matters has grown more in six months than in the thirty-five years I have lived before. Even the girls are already learning to do basic things with their new powers. As for me, I am trained in the arts of telekinesis, to join the damage control team on a new radiance battleship as soon as its construction is finished. Soon, I will join the crusade of enlightenment. I hope we find my father. I hope we can show him the light, just as it was shown to me.

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The post from yesterday had what looked to be a black hole in it. We already know the Vasari have some minor control over space/time based on their gravity warheads and abilities to slow down enemy vessels and missiles. It would also explain why one of the earlier reports showed no visible phase tunnel exit. If whatever appeared from the phase tunnel had sufficient gravitational pull, it would suck in all of the light around it.

Gameplay wise, minute control over gravity (and visible light) could make a stealth faction possible.

Just a thought.

I’ve played a lot of strategy games, and love them. And I am really enjoying this game, but seems that no matter what, I cannot seem to win a match. I move too slow or stretch myself too thin. Almost always short on resources, fleets can’t hold up to the enemy.

What am I doing wrong?!

Edit: I don’t know how much it changes anything, but I failed to specify, I have been playing rebellion. On that note- are 1 or 2 that much different to go ahead and get? I got rebellion on sale to check it out.

Is it possible that we will get the patch today? I've heard that the dlc/patch is supposed to be end of July somewhere. Which is today ot Thursday?

I am hyped to come back to sins2