Purge all the bad, existing fleets.

[cosmic mirage]

I'm talking the super old ones, that fly around with triple sails and a musket. I just dont think it's actually good for new players to have to fight trash, so they don't improvise and adapt to take on proper threatsm

[tropic topaz]

This is also really important because of how auto resolve works

AI fleets are not considered on actual effectiveness when fighting just cost

So old fleets can take over the world then fold instantly to a real player

[bleak plover]

I think many of them should be moved at least to the very easy/easy difficulty ranges exclusively, rather than be removed, but the big issue is that there's not enough fleets left after you remove those or restrict them to the very low difficulties for some proper diversity

[tropic topaz]

The issue is difficulties already cripple the AI

So you'd just be turning the game from easy to you literally cannot lose because the AI can't pen your armor with their rifle spam fleet XD

[bleak plover]

then you keep them at very easy
or you change the easy difficulty stats

[runic jetty]

you heard the stupid

time to build some ai fleets 💪💪

[tropic topaz]

Maybe, currently on easy and very easy the player gets more income and production, the AI gets less, the AI also gets less research iirc?

Tbh I wish difficulty settings didn't effect the players stats just the AI

[runic jetty]

uwu’s got a point, you can win with literally any fleet design no matter how shit in singleplayer

[tropic topaz]

Yeah

[runic jetty]

it makes people design more cannon ships

and we could do with less cannon ships in this world

[cosmic mirage]

we need to take in a mass of player ships and fleets

and remove.... certain fleets...

[cosmic mirage]

think we especially need another cultist fleet

[potent torrent]

To quote myself:
I propose the following cleanup:
remove "tovarish2" (there's an updated "tovarish")
remove "sunrise" (there's an updated "sunrise2")
restrict "RwR" to Normal (all the buildings face in one direction)
restrict "forwards" to Normal (all the buildings face in one direction)

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[tropic topaz]

All buildings facing one direction can work against the AI tbf

[delicate knot]

for the many starting players who didnt invest tens of hours into the game, these fleets are often the most fun factor, so i agree that they should be moved to lower difficulty exclusively, not removed

[rich flax]

I dont know if its possible, but if all ais use rifles instead of muskets on t0 buildings, then they wouldnt be defeated by flying above them

[tropic topaz]

Rifles are not T0

[cosmic mirage]

but that doesen't matter

because ai already gets bonus tech

[frank glacier]

ideally you wouldnt need this if the ai started with at least 2 musket buildings instead of 1