June 29th, 2003, 07:34 PM
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Re: AI Campaign => For a Challenging AI opponent
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In a high-tech start the initial facilities on my homeworld are significantly less than ideal. Is this fixable?
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Good, question, Spoo.
In some Mods High Tech Starts are not recommended, and are used primarily for testing purposes and AIC is one of these type Mods..
AIC is optimized for Standard tech starts, and Medium tech Starts where a players gets a larger starting count of Techs. It is rare that one may start a game with all techs available, but sure, AIC will give some interesting results for both the Human and the AI Players.
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Also, I've noticed that maintainence seems higher in AIC. What is the base maint. cost, and how low can you get it by stacking racial + cultural + component + system-wide facility modifiers? Is there a min. maint cost like in stock SE4, or can you get it to zero?
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Yes, the maintenance in AIC is at a premium.
In regards to how low a Human Player can achieve this in AIC this will depend on the Race and Culture you choose, the Research path you follow the amount of investment you are willing to invest in some Characteristics and the maximum Ship size and type you wish to build.
There are many Paths to take in AIC to play a successful game and this should be experimented and decided by the individual Player. 
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Also, with "show only latest" in high-tech, some facilites and components show an obsolete Version next to the newer one (Psychic Intel Center III comes to mind as a specific example). I suppose some of these may be intensional with the facilities to avoid abuse of upgrading, but for the components I imagine this is a minor bug.
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This is a result of the latest upgrade when AIC added more facility options for the Human Players as result it currently displays the added Facilities from the previous upgrade. The addition of the Psychic Intel Center IV and V Facility comes to mind as a specific example
The next up grade will list them as usual and any new facilities added in sequence will be listed as you pointed out; as to highlight the additions 
[ June 29, 2003, 18:46: Message edited by: JLS ] |