Please help a newbie with some questions

[pathfinder]

Originally posted by hickmanj:
I have SEIV Gold and the TDM modpack. I only have time for single player games (as I am a father of 2 toddlers and work full-time) and want to make it the most challenging deep experience possible.

I noticed several mods here, esp. Proportions and the AI campaign - but also was overwhelmed with the amount of reading (the AI Campaign post has over 60 pages of Posts!) and was wondering if someone could guide me through in terms of what I should download and play with to get the richest single player game possible.

I consider myself a thoughtful wargamer who desires a slow, realistic challenge from the AI especially mods that improve its tactical and attack abilities (i.e. ground invasions, use of large fleets)... I have yet to ever be invaded by the AI or see it use large fleets and then stay committed to attacking my systems.

Also, is the AI Campaign and Proportions able to be used alongside the TDM modpack? Or are these stand-alone?

I only have email/connection at work so I can only use so much time scanning the internet - thank you all in advance for your help with these questions and anything else you would like to tell me in order to have a challenging, single player game - thanks!


Jason

AIC uses Proportions as a base. TDM is stand-alone and does not directly align with AIC or proportions. With modification to key AI files they could be used (I thimk).

Others could probably give you some better advice.

Easy way to get a challenge is to set AI difficulty to high with high bonus.

[ November 02, 2003, 19:50: Message edited by: pathfinder ]