Early amoebas destroying everything

[Szkeptik]

Wtf, I don't remember this being in the game a few months ago. From the very beginning amoeba fleet(s) patrol around my systems and destroy everything that happens to be close when they jump into a system. I just quit a game after just a few years when fleets of 800+ amobeas were destroying my mining stations and even a colony ship. Is this intended? Beacuse it made the game unplayable for me.

 

[gdj]

Bad luck. But yes, amoeba fleets are larger now, and patrol around randomly. It´s not as bad as you think though as there are fewer of them on the map in total, in some games you will actually not see them at all.

 

[RossMorris]

Randomly yes it's possible. But aren't you taking some fun out of the game by giving up? I mean Stellaris just gave you a gift of story, I'd run with it.

 

[smjjames]

I've never had a problem with the nomadic ones flying around. The only trouble I've gotten from them is that I have to delay surveying a specific system for a time, and they don't last very long.

 

[Eggbert]

I have been in a similar situation where my home system was in the patrol route and I had mining stations near enough to the edge of the system to trigger the amoebas attacking them.

My solution to this problem was to build a basic military station with an FTL magnet near my starting space station since it is more than strong enough to kill the amoebas and then I studied their corpses FOR SCIENCE!