Winning my first game finally WooT!
 

after foregoing sleep and all contact with the outside world for the Last week (since i got the game) i am finally on my way to winning my first game. normal diff, 5 opponents, smallest map. Yes, utilizing the mighty Ulmites, and a cyclops god named hephaustus (who ironically has died 3 times, lost his only eye, has a unhealed wound, a weak chest, and a missing arm!) BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
LIFE IS SWEET!

Re: Winning my first game finally WooT!
 

Make that 4 times, with no eye, weakened, a chest wound, a limp, a never healing wound, and 1 arm.

wow... never name your god after a gimpy greek mythological figure.

Re: Winning my first game finally WooT!
 

now try with impossible ais, then try a normal sized map http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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after that try putting a impossible ermor ai into the next game you play http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

then you've done everything there is to do in SP.

Re: Winning my first game finally WooT!
 

BTW, how to get an KI with an special theme(I would like to fight Emor with Ashen EMpire)

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You can design a god, start a 2-player game and then set the ermor to computer contorl on 1st turn.

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Oh, *headnutonthedesktop*, thank you!

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Congrats on your win. Sounds like it was a good game.

Were the independents set for the default of 3?
That makes the AIs especially vulnerable. Not only do you need to beat the AIs at impossible but you need to do it with indeps higher than 5. 7 makes you pretty good. Large map like Orania, impossible AIs including Ermor and Rlyeh, Indeps at 9 makes you ready to try and win a multiplayer game.

[ March 24, 2004, 13:03: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Re: Winning my first game finally WooT!
 

Congrats! The first win is always memorable! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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i thought everyone played SP with independents on 9 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

thats what i do atleast. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Winning my first game finally WooT!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well early on we had some flamage because people were making alot of noise how the AI was worthless. It turned out that they were on small maps, turning the AI to impossible settings, and leaving the indeps at 3, sometimes even 2. The poor AIs were building for a long hard game while the human players rushed them.

Re: Winning my first game finally WooT!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I take it from this, then, that the AI does not make use of scouts?

I'm still new enough that normal AI with an indep of 6 is a reasonable fight for me, so I don't think I'm going to run out of SP fun soon.