Gold and minefields... anyone have the AI sweep for mines?

Sinapus · #1 March 25th, 2002, 04:17 PM

Just wondering. The TDM Modpack races seem to stop sending ships through the fields over and over again, which probably means the avoid minefield setting works, but I haven't had any sweepers go through for awhile. Of course, I haven't played with the Narn very much since I found them to be horrifyingly effective at minesweeping in various pre-Gold games. Combined with Religious tech that can be nasty.

Arak Koba · #2 March 25th, 2002, 04:36 PM

I have had the Hevordah sweeping my minefields fervently!

They have created ships with 5 minesweeper III modules taking down my fields.

Of course, they still get clobbered by my excessive numbers of mines in these locales, but once they find those fields, here come the sweepers!

Mephisto · #3 March 25th, 2002, 05:07 PM

They should send in the minesweepers after they hit a field. If not, please report which races show this behaviour so we can look into it.

Sinapus · #4 March 27th, 2002, 07:44 PM

I'll keep playing. I think it's simply that they haven't built the minesweepers or they have and they haven't gotten to my minefields yet.

I have noticed that the research minister no longer adds mines to the research list every other turn when you run into minefields, as mentioned somewhere in the history.txt file.

Dan · #5 March 27th, 2002, 09:24 PM

I'm getting spanked bigtime by the AI - something I'm not used to at ALL

They're not only sweeping mines quite well, they're now doing superbly orchestrated planet assaults with ships, fighters, missiles, and *gasp* transports. I've lost two systems that way so far.

I think it's a matter of the AI needing to get the economy going and certain ships built and deployed. When it gets chugging look out.

Dan

Atraikius · #6 March 27th, 2002, 10:56 PM

Which AI are you refering to?

Dan · #7 March 27th, 2002, 11:44 PM

It's the Cue Cappa and Abbidon (SP?) in this case but I think other races that came on the CD behaved similarly when given the chance. Which ones specifically escapes me just now....

It was so *fun* (well, sort of, since I was on the receiving end) watching the AI's 18 ships peel my 14 ship fleet like a banana before stripping the planet of defenses. They then ceased fire and the transport moved in, successfully assaulting the place. My guys never had a chance.

Dan

[ 27 March 2002: Message edited by: Dan ]

Skulky · #8 March 28th, 2002, 02:22 AM

Boy would i like to know those fleet and ship strategy settings for my PBW games, however in some of those i am having trouble just getting the resources together. (i am actually playign as chocolatefro, skulky was taken by this guy who wanted to piss me off)