Very quick question about Sphereworlds

Renegade 13 · #1 January 30th, 2004, 10:11 PM

Will the AI ever construct sphereworlds or ringworlds in a Single Player game? If not, can the AI be modded so they will construct them? Thanks in advance.

Ragnarok · #2 January 30th, 2004, 10:13 PM

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Originally posted by Renegade 13:
Will the AI ever construct sphereworlds or ringworlds in a Single Player game? If not, can the AI be modded so they will construct them? Thanks in advance.

I've never seen it happen and I believe it cannot happen in the stock game.

But I do not know if the AI can be modded to do so. Someone else will have to handle that part of the question.

Renegade 13 · #3 January 31st, 2004, 02:27 AM

Can anybody else help?

geoschmo · #4 January 31st, 2004, 02:45 AM

The stock AI will not. It doesn't have designs for the bases neccesary to create them.

You could probably setup an AI to build those bases. But there is no way you are going to be able to get it to build them over a star, and to build the right number of other bases with the cables and plating neccesary for the job. The ai just doesn't have the knowledge to do that sort of thing. It would require some changes to the game code by Malfador.

Geoschmo

Renegade 13 · #5 January 31st, 2004, 03:03 AM

Ok, thanks. Guess that gives me an advantage then.

oleg · #6 January 31st, 2004, 03:10 AM

I wonder if it is possible to do in AIC mod - because of the "AI only" race technology. Add some huge ship capable to carry all components and edit designs file. Will AI send such a ship to the sun and build Sphereworld ?

geoschmo · #7 January 31st, 2004, 03:21 AM

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Originally posted by oleg:
I wonder if it is possible to do in AIC mod - because of the "AI only" race technology. Add some huge ship capable to carry all components and edit designs file. Will AI send such a ship to the sun and build Sphereworld ?

That's the only way it might work. If you had a mod with everything needed on one ship. I think the AI will make regular planets out of asteroids, so it's possible it would be smart enough to send the ship to a sun.

[ January 31, 2004, 01:22: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

ChinMonster · #8 January 31st, 2004, 03:50 AM

I tried GIVING a fully developed sphereworld to the AI on several occasions just so i'd have a better challenge in defeating them.... they refused my offer lol, they always do.

[ January 31, 2004, 01:58: Message edited by: ChinMonster ]

Taz-in-Space · #9 January 31st, 2004, 06:43 AM

The AI will colonize a ring or sphereworld. So if you want to play against an AI with such an world just build them one (in one of their systems) and let them colonize it.
Or mod the map so they 'find' one available...

Kamog · #10 January 31st, 2004, 07:15 AM

I have had success in getting the AI to accept stuff by using trades. Say I have a damaged ship stranded far away that I don't want to pay maintenance on, and it's not worth sending out a repair ship. So I try to gift it to an AI and they refuse. No problem. Propose a trade, and give the ship along with 20000 minerals, and ask for 10000 minerals in return. The AI always seems to accept. Of course, you lose some resources by doing this, so it only makes sense if you have an excess.

So maybe you can get the AI to accept the sphere world by trading the sphere world + 20000 resources and ask for 10000 resources back.