Xenon have never recovered

[waynetarlton]

After many months of continual destruction of the Xenon and relegating them to a single sector, then wiping out all traces repeatedly for weeks, they have never recovered.

Having left them alone now for more than a week of in-game time, they have only placed the plots to build stations, but not built any at all.
I discovered a couple of left over M5 ships many sectors away, but nothing. No development, no new ships, no stations. Nothing.

Has anyone else found that the Xenon have simply given up?

[Buzz2005]

if you kill all energy cell fabs its game over for xenons

[Karvat]

Sad, every race should be able to recover, especially the Xenon which are supposed to be the main threat

[Seon]

Well, I mean if you destroy -everything- they own... How do you expect them to come back?

Some things spawn out of thin air in this game, but they'd need something to rebuild from. If they don't have anything...

[Falcrack]

Sad, every race should be able to recover, especially the Xenon which are supposed to be the main threat

Xenon cannot buy resources from other factions, so if you wipe out their own industrial base, how do you expect them to recover? Other factions can potentially recover because even if all their stations are wiped out, they can still purchase, using their infinite credits, resources from other factions who may not be hostile in order to rebuild their stations. They can still place orders for ships, using their infinite credits, ships from non-hostile shipyards, especially if the player has one available.

Xenon have no credits and nobody willing to trade with them. But I still like the current system, and don't want to go back to a system where stuff is spawned in to prevent factions such as the Xenon from being completely wiped out.

[spankahontis]

Sad, every race should be able to recover, especially the Xenon which are supposed to be the main threat

Xenon cannot buy resources from other factions, so if you wipe out their own industrial base, how do you expect them to recover? Other factions can potentially recover because even if all their stations are wiped out, they can still purchase, using their infinite credits, resources from other factions who may not be hostile in order to rebuild their stations. They can still place orders for ships, using their infinite credits, ships from non-hostile shipyards, especially if the player has one available.

Xenon have no credits and nobody willing to trade with them. But I still like the current system, and don't want to go back to a system where stuff is spawned in to prevent factions such as the Xenon from being completely wiped out.

End of the day, it's what we've always wanted. An economy almost entirely spawn free.

But then, Xenon are supposed to be Artificial Grand Intelligence on the road to being God-Like Intelligence. They should foresee the chink in their armour and find a way to compensate for this tactic? They need to find other ways in which to accumulate for their energy needs.
Mobile CPU Ships that make their own drones to collect gas and materials and convert them to whatever they want, like Stations, Ships etc.

[Waltz9]

Well they should act a bit like pirates to like picking up the dropped resources which are usefull to them.
For example
you took out all there energy plants so they start attacking factions energy plants to get the energy cells from them.
Just to try to recover there own economy. This could be a start.

A litle pirate behavior to things to matters for there own economy should be that bad.

[Jaskan]

You could try the

viewtopic.php?f=181&t=413122#p4836091

If you use the Catch-up mod, i think its supposed to help any faction recover