Would this be considered a gamey tactic
 

I am in a PBW game where there are a few AI empires present. Currently there is an AI empire that is at war with me, but instead of sending warships has been sending colony ships into my system. Not a big deal because everything is developed, but they were causing my population emotional problems.

Initially, I was just blasting them out of space, but I got the idea of creating a few LC's equipped with Shield depleters and boarding parties and now I just snatch them as they come through the warp point. Since they are a different atmosphere type than myself, and because I am creating planets I have been using these ships to colonize worlds with that type of atmosphere.

My question, since the AI has no intention of stopping the practice of sending colony ships my way, and I feel no need to stop it from doing it (since I am benefiting) is it a cheesy tactic.

Just curious what everyone here thinks.

Ex

Re: Would this be considered a gamey tactic
 

The original list had "Having AIs in a PBW game" as number one because they are so easy to exploit... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Would this be considered a gamey tactic
 

Ya, I'd say that's actually an interesting thing for you to be doing, compared to all the other ways you could be abusing the AI.

PvK

Re: Would this be considered a gamey tactic
 

Why wait til you get up to LC? If this happens early enough in the game, be it PBW or "merely" you verses the AI, this becomes easy research points for you. A frigate with 4 boarding parties and a DUC* is sufficient to do this against most AI. Beware of the AI that set their colony ships to Ram though...

1. Allow the AI colony ships into a sector(s), especially if they are of a different type. Might as well pick up technology as well as breathers

2. Block the warp points and appropriate planets with ships.

3. Research Boarding parties, capture, repopulate and analyze.

Re: Would this be considered a gamey tactic
 

If the game's creater put AI's in the game, you were more or less expected to exploit them. So I don't think you're being cheezy. Pestering them until they surrender all their filled homeworlds to you, now that would be cheezy.