Maybe its ships could even be cloaked (the Spear you get from the Academy reward shouldn't be cloaked because that might be a bit overpowered). In my mind the Academy would make more sense as an empire that starts out with a small amount of well-developed territory that it aggressively defends, but it really shouldn't expand or randomly attack other people's outposts. I pretty much agree with what said about Isyander and the Academy being a secretive and reclusive group. I can defend against pirates or Vodyani entering my territory, but Isyander has such a massive fleet that I am often forced to restart the game if I start near the Academy. What really frustrates me about all of this is that there is really no way to counterplay this aggression, at least early on. He has forward settled me once or twice, but I didn't find that as annoying because he took some useless 2- or 3-planet systems that I didn't want anyways. In another game as Hissho, he invaded my territory and destroyed a lot of my mining probes. In one of my first games after Awakening, Isyander would intermittently blockade my capital starting on turn 3, which killed my dust and science production. I really, really wish the devs would change Isyander's behaviour (and fix the Academy in general).
I just registered on the forum because I had the same frustrations as everyone else in this thread. I think the expansionistic tendencies of the Academy should be delayed until the Academy has been "found" by somebody and the first Academy Contribution quest is completed (making it a minimum of turn 22 in Normal speed) as this would make the most sense from an immersion perspective. Same character, supposedly, but two very different portrayals of him.
The real problem, as I see it, has always been that the "Academy" has always been portrayed as this isolated, secretive establishment that we had to expend effort to locate (there's a whole questline for this) and heroes are always secretive about the Academy in their lore snippets.Ĭontrast that with the rapidly expanding, extremely aggressive and coercive Academy faction we have in this expansion and they look like two very different entities almost like the introspective, meticulous and cerebral Captain Jean Luc PIcard of Star Trek: The Next Generation television series opposed to the aggressive, confrontational and prideful Captain Jean Luc Picard of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies. I'd agree that having the Academy hindered from colonizing at the beginning would be prudent, particularly given the speed and strength of the Academy in the early game.
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