Quick question about fleet power

[matek13]

I've seen some people around the forums posting screenshots of empires well over 3000 fleet capacity and 500k fleet strength. I've never gotten anywhere close to that so I wonder, what setting do you have to play to get those kinds of numbers?
The game I'll use as a example is a large galaxy, 100% habitalbility, individualist, materialist, xenophile. No gameplay mods that would influence fleet power or capacity. 54 planets and 884 pops total.

 

[tangled axile]

Do you have fully-upgraded spaceports on all of your planets, incl sectors? Just off the top of my head, that could be a big difference. Also just sheer size.

 

[Pchang]

It is not the game settings, but your play style. You are being a nice guy and playing the diplomatic game. Being in a Federation lowers your fleet cap by 20%. Your actual fleet cap should be about 1700. In addition, if you played as a ruthless conqueror, you could easily have 90 planets or so and a 50% bigger population. Everyone would hate/fear you, but you would not have enough for a Domination Victory yet. Thus, your fleet cap could be as high as 3000. In addition Fleet strength over values bigger ships. If your fleet consisted of only Battleships and Cruisers, you would have a higher fleet strength. Thus, you can see that with a 3000 fleet cap, a 500K fleet strength is not out of the question.

 

[matek13]

Do you have fully-upgraded spaceports on all of your planets, incl sectors? Just off the top of my head, that could be a big difference. Also just sheer size.

Yes, I checked before making the screenshots.

It is not the game settings, but your play style. You are being a nice guy and playing the diplomatic game. Being in a Federation lowers your fleet cap by 20%. Your actual fleet cap should be about 1700. In addition, if you played as a ruthless conqueror, you could easily have 90 planets or so and a 50% bigger population. Everyone would hate/fear you, but you would not have enough for a Domination Victory yet. Thus, your fleet cap could be as high as 3000. In addition Fleet strength over values bigger ships. If your fleet consisted of only Battleships and Cruisers, you would have a higher fleet strength. Thus, you can see that with a 3000 fleet cap, a 500K fleet strength is not out of the question.

Thanks a lot for the answer. It's true I never really played as the bad guy for too long so I never saw how the lategame looks from that perspective. I'll propably give domination victory a shot once Utopia comes out.

 

[GC13]

The game I'll use as a example is a large galaxy, 100% habitalbility, individualist, materialist, xenophile. No gameplay mods that would influence fleet power or capacity. 54 planets and 884 pops total.

You're about par with my empire, though I have more Pops on the same amount of planets. My combined fleet strength is 225k, though I'm not up to fleet cap yet.

 

[Foefaller]

If you were a Martial Dictatorship with the Grand Fleet Edict activated, you would just hit 3k Fleet capacity with an empire that large. Or at least you would once you dropped out of the Federation.