[Krakenup]

Originally posted by Atilla the Pun:
I've been, well not exactly baiting, Apolytoner's.

Go read the thread and then come back and tell me to leave them alone.

Good job, well, except for the fact that you're wrong.

Originally posted by Big Dave on Apolyton:
The ministers are stupid, untill you edit the text files that control them.

The text files provide goals for the ministers. The underlying ministers themselves are hardcoded. Look at any of a number of threads on this forum for examples of how stupid the ministers are. They send ship after ship through damaging warp points into black holes instead of through normal warp points a few squares away. They strip important planets of population to build up unimportant colonies. They ignore enroute resupply depots and just turn the ship around when it reaches half supplies, regardless of the mission. They build mines for planetary protection but won't launch them. They keep building units on planets with no storage available. They constantly retrofit ships to the same or inferior designs. They can't even find the short way around damaging storms or get out of black holes consistently. You can't afford to turn any part of your empire over to a minister. It will ruin you. The ministers were stupid in the demo, and the ministers are stupid in Gold. Although some errors have been fixed, there has been little done to improve them. MM's time has been spent on really important things like drones. [/Rant]

Sorry about that. It's a great game anyway, but it could be so much better.