Machine race

HAL · #1 January 9th, 2001, 07:05 PM

I would like opinions on what everyone thinks would be appropriate for a machine race. All the ships will have master computers, but what else should the race have?

Thanks.

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I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

MoonDragn · #2 January 9th, 2001, 07:08 PM

Temporal tech, robo miners, and robotic boarding crew to "assimilate" other races
they would have energy dampners to stop ships from firing and shield disrupters to take down shields so they can "assimilate"

HAL · #3 January 9th, 2001, 07:12 PM

Machine race != Borg. 8^)

I am thinking more about myself here. I did away with the evil biologicals that were threatening the mission. I was thinking more along the lines of the Battlestar Gallactica Cylons and Arnie's Terminators. The robotic extractors are good. Why temporal tech?

Tampa_Gamer · #4 January 9th, 2001, 07:17 PM

I like it! I have not had any luck yet getting the AI to group its boarding ships with attack fleets in my Darloks (ver 1.31). But I can see your machine race having a large group of such ships and using the defender's ships against them.

MoonDragn · #5 January 9th, 2001, 08:03 PM

Reason for temporal tech is that one of the temporal weapons can do 4x damage to shields, that helps in the boarding of the ship. 2nd reason is the temporal tech allows temporal space yards, which will increase the production rate and produce that hoard of ships.
Plus if you ever seen the daleks(not to be confused with darloks) which is where they were based off of, from Dr Who, they were a race of alien sentient robots who could at one point time travel.

Daynarr · #6 January 9th, 2001, 08:06 PM

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Originally posted by Tampa_Gamer:
I like it! I have not had any luck yet getting the AI to group its boarding ships with attack fleets in my Darloks (ver 1.31). But I can see your machine race having a large group of such ships and using the defender's ships against them.

I am right now heavily testing AI behavior in grouping fleets and have found some interesting discoveries that just might be the solution that you are looking for. As soon as I confirm those theories I will post them for all moders and also new Version of Sergetti mod will go out. Hold on tight.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Making AI use master computers can't be done at the moment. AI simply doesn't include them in the design even if he has the tech. Sorry HAL. I hope they will fix it in the next patch.