Heavily Defended Anomalies

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Heavily defended anomalies have always been difficult to take down. I have always had to build a big fleet around a survey ship to destroy the defenders and survey the anomaly. In my current game, there were many heavily defended anomalies in my starting sector, but they have slowly been disappearing during the course of the game. I began to observe the many alien fleets moving about my home sector and have watched them take out all the heavily defended anomalies. NONE have them have had a survey ship within their fleets. Do you still need a survey ship to scan a heavily defended anomaly or is the game cheating? 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I cannot report anything about survey ships but I can report that AI is much more active in "removing" yellow and red anomalies. Neither red nor yellow anomalies are left in my home sector but a lot of white ones (turn 119).

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I began to observe the many alien fleets moving about my home sector and have watched them take out all the heavily defended anomalies. NONE have them have had a survey ship within their fleets. Do you still need a survey ship to scan a heavily defended anomaly or is the game cheating? 
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I have seen this also.  I can't survey them without a survey ship, so the AI is cheating.  One of the recent updates changed something, so the AI now goes after defended anomalies instead of ignoring them.

Once, I was able to use a fleet to attack and destroy the defenders of a lightly-defended anomaly, but I couldn't survey it because the fleet didn't have a survey ship.  The AI seem to be doing a variation of this and surveying without a survey ship and doing the survey on the same turn the defenders were destroyed.

I've seen some instances where a single survey ship without weapons or defenses will survey a heavily-defended anomaly without taking any damage.  It should have been destroyed.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Agreed. I just saw the Torians take out several heavily defended anomalies with a fleet of 7 ships and two single ships, none of which were survey ships. The AI is definitively cheating.

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Heavily defended anomalies have always been difficult to take down. I have always had to build a big fleet around a survey ship to destroy the defenders and survey the anomaly. In my current game, there were many heavily defended anomalies in my starting sector, but they have slowly been disappearing during the course of the game. I began to observe the many alien fleets moving about my home sector and have watched them take out all the heavily defended anomalies. NONE have them have had a survey ship within their fleets. Do you still need a survey ship to scan a heavily defended anomaly or is the game cheating? 
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I am not going to talk about the AIs actions.

It does not take a large fleet to take out the Percussor Anomalies, the terrains need only 12 logistics points so you can combine the command ships the Gaze and Hivebase with your initial survey ship you'll go through them like a flamethrower through a snowbank.

Reply #5 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I have sent the GMs two saved games showing this happen (months ago), i.e. an AI starting surveyor with NO escorts ( which is not strong enough to fight the defenders) move into a (Red) Heavily Defended Precursor Anomaly without having a battle, and survey the anomaly. Yet when turns later I send a fleet in I DO have a battle with the defending fleet that is still there, BUT the anomaly is empty with nothing left to find.