AI attacks meaningless?

anonsoc · #1 March 30th, 2003, 01:19 AM

Love the game, ONE complaint/question though.

I am currently fighting a war between 2 other computer controlled races. I notice that anytime I'm attacked, be it one of my fighters, or the planet on the edge of my empire (appropriately named "Edge") the AI uses one ship to attack me. Every turn or every other turn I get attacked, and it is always with one ship. These ships (while their construction level is higher than mine) fall to my small weapons platform after firing one or two shots at the planet. In this case, if the AI used TWO ships instead of one, "Edge" could be defeated. Now here's my question. Does the AI always only attack with one ship? This is my first attempt at the game and so far, the battles are zero challenge.

oleg · #2 March 30th, 2003, 01:24 AM

I do not know what SE Version do you use (demo, pre-Gold, Gold), but I can testify that latest custom made AIs (my included

) routinely send fleets of 20+ ships for any "edge"

anonsoc · #3 March 30th, 2003, 01:26 AM

I'm using SEIV Gold with latest patch. I have not even seen an enemy fleet much less been attacked by one

oleg · #4 March 30th, 2003, 01:32 AM

Hmmm. Latest patch should have reasonable AI_fleet files but apparently not

. It will not help your current game, but try to load TDM pack and start a new game with medium/high AI bonuses. With some luck you will get Rage in the next system...

Master Belisarius · #5 March 30th, 2003, 01:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by anonsoc:
Love the game, ONE complaint/question though.

I am currently fighting a war between 2 other computer controlled races. I notice that anytime I'm attacked, be it one of my fighters, or the planet on the edge of my empire (appropriately named "Edge") the AI uses one ship to attack me. Every turn or every other turn I get attacked, and it is always with one ship. These ships (while their construction level is higher than mine) fall to my small weapons platform after firing one or two shots at the planet. In this case, if the AI used TWO ships instead of one, "Edge" could be defeated. Now here's my question. Does the AI always only attack with one ship? This is my first attempt at the game and so far, the battles are zero challenge.

As Oleg wrote, you should play using the TDM mod, at least low bonus, and select some of the most challenging races.
In the current AI Death Match that I'm running, you could find some fleets with more than 200 ships (most of them DN!).

anonsoc · #6 March 30th, 2003, 01:55 AM

ah ok

well i just saw a fleet of 2 ships coming for me

, but also noticed another race working with them that had 3 ships in a line!

np I'll be starting a new game haha, BUT, i noticed something. While going all out to drop planetary weapons on the good guys, I ran across some satellites, and my fighters could not fire missiles upon them? Had to put it on auto and let the computer do x amount of turns to end the combat.