[Kentavr]

An AI needn't cheat to win.

Humans are not perfect: An AI can be. This constant idea that AIs can't be smart is just... Well, junk.

Given enough data, an AI can soundly beat a human. Can you ever beat an AI at chess? C'mon.

the only difference here is that the AI doesn't quite know what everything does. It's not even programmed yet to make decisions based upon the universe, but just random chance! That's not AI, that's just... Random.

The computer plays a pretty straight game in tactical combat... If I don't have some sort of advantage in the combat, I'll lose. I'm fairly sure none of you are any better than that. You're going in with hog-wild ships and then saying the AI is dumb, when you obviously outclass it. Try going up against the AI ship that has missiles when you've just got guns. You'll get trounced if you don't have initiative. And I noticed the AI seems to run it's own ships better than a player's... What's with that? :P

But really, until the AI is making decisions based upon the planets within range, what they can do, and making raids rather than just shoving pieces around the board randomly, of course the AI will suck... Because it certainly is A, but it ain't I.

Humans play their games based upon sound rules. It wouldn't be that hard to write them into the game. ...Getting the to work, and have the data for the AI to be able to manage it, that's another thing entirely.

And PS: MOO2 sucked. Small universes, repetitive animations (What's the difference between the same animation twenty times over and a bitmap? The bitmaps is faster, cheaper, and easier to ignore), races that really didn't do anything 'different' than each other, at least when it came to declaring war.

C'mon, really, did you want SE4 next year, after a year of AI tweaking, or did you want it now, when you can play against each other, and learn to make mods? I've been waiting for SE4 all year... And I'm perfectly happy with it.

Crissa

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Crissa Kentavr
Lost Girls