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Okay, but if I have my way they won't get the chance=-) I plan to cripple their production and hopefully they won't have the resources to maintain a SM fleet.
Well, I wasn't suggesting that you'll let them win, of course
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They have been isolated (on and off) for a while now so I imagine they are probably trying to build one. They ought to have the resources as well (for now at least) - their empire is about the same size as mine and I have 3 SM ships. I can only survive by converting loads of organics to minerals every turn, but the AI bonus is on, so they should be able to do it.
If they have been truly isolated (i.e. no warp points and no planets left to colonize) they should put a warp opener in the queue, if they have the tech.
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I also suspect that they have been building planets. If you like I can find out for sure, because there is a system that used to be full of rocks in their territory - I'll peek in next chance I get and see what it looks like now.
I am pretty sure that they will build planets. That is the main reason I had them research SM afterall (apart from the monoliths for refining and farming worlds). The planet builder is pretty high in the queue.
Actually I am rather curious what they are doing. Can you send me the savegame (.gam file) per email?
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BTW Rollo, I'm going to update my site this afternoon. I was thinking of putting up Vikings 0.99 - the latest 1.49 AI files with the Gold Version images - for those ppl who haven't ordered SE4 Gold (the fools).
What do you think?
The only problem is that I still have a few more images to do, so this won't be the definitive non-Gold vikings release - but there's no more numbers between 0.99 and 1.00 - D'oh!
IIRC, the latest published Version was 0.97. So you still have 0.98 and 0.99.
I made the CD Version 1.00 Gold, btw.
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Or maybe, just to be sure, I should call it
"Space Vikings Classic V1.00", and have
"Space Vikings Gold V1.00" as a seperate entity.
After all, all releases so far have been branded
"Space Vikings (Pre CD release) V0.XX"
That would work, too, I guess.
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Or maybe I should just sit back and appreciate the fact that I have nothing more important to worry about than this...
I agree
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RA 2: The Rage AI has been building planets - I had a ship in the system so I got the message. If the AI started creating warp points .... be afraid, be very afraid 
Oh, the AI DOES open warp points. Unfortunately not aggressively enough IMHO. And I agree the Rage does the planet creation really nice (and early).
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MB: Rollo, I agree with you, the Gold AI is really better.
Yep, especially with using troops
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Rollo