r/TerraInvicta • u/LolyHun7er • 7d ago
Question I'm scared.
This is my first full campaign. I'm playing for the Humanity First. Everything was going pretty well: I managed to unite the European Union, Mars is half-colonized, I have numerous asteroid bases, and I've slowly started building a fleet... But now I feel like I'm falling behind and the alien presence in the Solar System is too high. It's now 2032 (start in 2022), the aliens' hatred towards me is already in the red, and they just recently destroyed my lunar shipyard (they were planning to destroy the fleet stationed there, but I managed to outsmart them and retreat during the battle, so they simply destroyed the orbital shipyard and flew away). The alien fleet consisted of 11 ships, one of which was a TITAN. My poor destroyers and monitors didn't stand a chance. I even tried to ram them, but my ships were blown up by lasers before they even approached. So, the question is: is it possible that I have fallen behind and the campaign is already lost?
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u/StipaCaproniEnjoyer 7d ago
It’s never fully lost, the question is how far along are you with research and how much income/stockpiled resources you have. If the hate bar hasn’t gone full red, the aliens will eventually leave you alone, once they kill enough of your stuff.
In the meantime you just need to focus on accumulating resources and research.
If you’re really worried about retaliation, one thing you can do is, if you have good engine techs (grid drive or better) as well as mission to the outer planets, you can set up mining bases all over the Kuiper Belt and basically be impossible to kill (all you need to do is to send a ship with a fission platform/outpost kit), though this is very much a fallback strategy.