[couslee]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"If you think the SP game is too easy and you use infinite resources, perhaps you should try some harder settings."

The AI doesn't handle finite resources very well, so actually that setting could make the game -easier-.

Phoenix-D

Like I have stated, I don't have a lot of games under my belt. But in my current game, I don't see that as an AI defect. The Phong and I both expanded during the early game and met about half way across. There has been a steady flow of ships and intel attacks from them, and I have seen advanced tech conning at me. They have colonized a number of systems, and although some things make me wonder, resource gathering facilities have been balanced. Personally, I would not put 30/30 reasearch facilities on a plant and not put a data bank there, but hey, maybe he didn't have the right tech at the time. But I have seen a good mix of gatherers on most of the planets. The gathering facilites also seem to coinside with the best value on that planet. Granted, the AI could use some work, but resource gathering has not been an issue.

I have noticed some people are playing SEIV gold, and others are playing SEIV 1.49. Lots of threads about what people would like to see in the next patch, too bad thay can't put out a special patch that would put all of us on the same page. (IE upgrade 1.49 to 1.78 gold, or whatever the current patch # will be). I am a little supprized they didn't do that when the "gold" was released. "Gold" should be the final Version of a game, not a new Version. The gold should have been called SEV, and they would be working on SE6 now. It just strikes me as odd.

[ January 26, 2003, 12:37: Message edited by: couslee ]