[Gwaihir]

But you can't do tactical in PBW. And tactical is unfair to the AI, because no matter how good a strategy someone gave the AI, you can analyze it and kick the pants off the poor computer even when fairly outnumbered. At least its better than SE3, though, where you could win consistently with 2 to 1 and sometimes with as bad as 3 to 1 odds against you (not counting the madness when you have better ship designs). However, the AI gameplay is much better in SEIV, i have to hand it to Aaron. A human player willing to spend the time to micromanage should in general beat the AI, at least when the playing field is level and the human has played enough to be familiar. Every strategy has a weakness, and the AI is not quite dynamic enough to adapt to someone exploiting its weak points.

Edit: this was in response to LostCommander

[ January 07, 2003, 22:22: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]