Quoting Frogboy, reply 11

But there are a couple of planetary improvements the Arceans have that are just insane which I've nerfed pretty hard.



Noooo!



I usually play as the Arceans because of the large number of moves I can get. I really liked having an unfair speed advantage over the AI. I'm really not complaining. It just means I'll have to adjust. I am capable of adjusting, so I will.



The last time I played as the Arcean I had seen your earlier comment somewhere about planetary improvements the Arceans could build to get a lot of moves, so I checked to see why my main fleet had 46 moves. This is what I found:



Research

+1 from Artificial Gravity

+1 from Hyperdrive Specialization

+10% from Ion Optimization

+1 from Warp Field Theory

+15% from Warp Field Focus



Planetary Improvements

+2 from Navigation Center

+3 from Adjacency Bonuses to it

+3 from Galactic Navigation Network

+3 from Adjacency Bonuses to it

I never built the third one.



Galactic Event

I chose the option that gave me +100%. I think it said it was to the base moves. I also think it gave +3 when I took it. It don't know if it became more than +3 due to later Research and Planetary Improvements.





I'm not sure how all these numbers are added and multiplied to get the number of moves. I went into the Ship Designer and found that all starting hull sizes had 24.8 moves. The ships I was using all had large hulls, were all designed by the game and had one Ion Drive, which gave 3.1 moves. The ships had 28 moves, which would be expected from adding 24.8 and 3.1. When I put the ships in a fleet and added a Commander, the moves increased to 46. I was surprised by this since the tool tip says a Commander gives +100%, which would be 56 moves.



If this gives you some more ideas on what to adjust, go to it.



I should mention that I have been seeing some AI ships that have anywhere from 3 to 6 moves early in the game and 8 (I think) later in the game. Some of these AI are from the workshop, and some are the ones that come with the game.



Final Note

If you can get the AI to use Commanders with their fleets, it would make them faster and a lot more troublesome.