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So I've been trying to decide whether to give 2.0 a try or wait 'til Crusade. Then someone posted this image from one of their recent games and I thought.... Yikes. Please tell me it's a weird aberration and not indicative of what the vast majority of players ere experiencing.
Anyone else seeing this kind of mess?
My current war with the Yor (insane difficulty) has lots of individual ships dotting the map, but not as bad as that image above!
there's a tendancy for the AI to use stacked but ungrouped ships and it's often making it weaker.
Engine stacking is the biggest advantage a player can get over the AI (even if you improve the default blueprints, player can always out do AI). In my games I remove all but one engine and make it One Per Ship, then each engine Tech grants additional movement bonus, couple that with a Engine Augment component it sticks the AI on an even footing vs the player, movement wise. (give or take 4-8 move depending on Traits and Tech tree). Its nioce to see AI with 30+ Moves tbh. 
Redesigned Engines:
All ships have a Base of 1 Movement.
Engine Core grants 3 Movement (1 per ship)
Engine Techs grant +2 Movement per Class Tech.
Engine Nacelle's grant +10% Movement (Stackable, 14 Mass + 5% Scaling)
There are 5 upgrades available which brings Movement upto 14 base. Plus any Nacelle's you stack, Traits and Techs.
Thrusters add +2% Movement.
Thats the System.
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