Do the endgame crisises start too soon?

[Just a Joke]

Update on TJ stream:
Year 2417: Force of 61K ships assembled and about to attack... the Unbidden blob is huge... and have started small blobs across the galaxy... showdown time

Upgrade: TJ killed 3 17K stacks in baiting tactic with minimal fleet loss, but lost several fortress and space station, then he assaults eye of terror. Unbidden throw 4 17K stacks at him, TJ kill 2 stacks and a smaller one, but TJ lost all DDs and most CAs. He still have 27K battleships now.

 

[Turin the Mad]

Year 2417, more than 2 centuries after game start, doesn't sound too late game to me. Sounds like TJ's been having a great time!

 

[Vasious]

I think the key thing to note is how it is hard to co-ordinate Allies and Federation members against the Unbidden due to a lack of being at war with them.

Humans players might be able to co-ordinate, but there does seem the need for a way to rally the AI Allies and Federation members to join an attack on them.

 

[-Marauder-]

Make sure to visit my thread, "Are endgame crises too perfectly timed?"

"Endgame crises, friend or foe?"

 

[Madzai]

it only took us 58 years to go from the first plane to putting someone in orbit. honestly things seem like they progress just fine.

We were supposed to have bases on Moon by Eightieth, according to predictions from Sixties, yet it's 2016 and Moon Bases are no yet in sight till 2050. And according to your logic Fallen Empires should be invincible because they have been living in space for eons. Yet they loose to Empire with ~100-200 years in space.
Leaving tightness of multiplayer games aside, tech research speed, Pop grow speed, colony building - everything feels too fast. What about uplifting species - it would be done in like, 10 years (if it's done slower it won't be worth the cost)? What about dangerous tech - we research, f.e, Sentient AI and in 25 years it rebel across the galaxy?

 

[-Marauder-]

Madzai, that's partly because there isn't all that much worth going up there unless you plan to use it as a stepping stone somewhere worth going to. It's less a "can't" and more a "not feasible in terms of investment/pay out". You will likely see faster progress as things become progressively cheaper and thus a lot of other ideas become profitable.