My game against the TDM AI

Raging Deadstar · #1 June 11th, 2004, 11:15 PM

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Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by Combat Wombat:
I decided to play TDM with FQM Deluxe. AI set to Hard with full bonus. I made sure I started with a small homeworld with poor conditions because I decided it was the only way I was gonna get a challange.

Are you sure you wanted a challenge, rather than a suicide?

Lol, I tried this once, i added team mode on as well!

I Lasted 60 turns and then had my behind firmly roasted and served on a platter

Combat Wombat · #2 June 11th, 2004, 11:23 PM

Well as I predicted things are looking up, I only have one thing really holding me back right now. Because of my homeworlds poor condidtions no one is reproducing so my homeworld can no longer build and fill colony ships without taking its population to dangerously low levels.

Mephisto · #3 June 12th, 2004, 12:26 AM

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Originally posted by JLS:
Notice the way Mephisto has the Xiati AI Files set-up - now this is an AI I do not want to meet

As always I'm humbled by your praise.

JLS · #4 June 12th, 2004, 01:35 AM

Humility is good.

Naaa

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Paul1980au · #5 June 12th, 2004, 10:03 AM

Once you have mastered SE4 you start to look for a better challange - a bast@rd AI is one way to go about it.

bearclaw · #6 June 12th, 2004, 10:05 PM

I have to admit that I also fell victem to underestimating TDM AI. What a wonderful surprise. I had begun by striking victory after victory in the early game, but then came my first Mid-game encounter with the Jnaraer. Wow. I suddenly realized that I had a challenge on my hands! It was a wonderful drawnout war. I eventually won, and was MUCH more careful come the End-game.

I had established a staging point that had my Warp openers and closers and several repair bases, defense bases, training etc at a homeworld. I would group my ships, warp into AI space and take a system. Warp back, re-group and do it again. Didn't take too long before I couldn't warp anymore because of System Shield facilities. During one such operation, the Eee kept sending one ship at a time through the warp point. Which were instantly vaporized. I got a combat message, thought, oh another single victem. But, imagine my surprise when a Massive Eee fleet was attempting the destroy my staging point! What a battle. Nearly an hour later, I was victorious, but my openers and closers were gone, all my support ships/bases dead or damaged and a new fleet in training in bad shape.

It was great.

JLS · #7 June 13th, 2004, 02:38 PM

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Originally posted by Paul1980au:
Once you have mastered SE4 you start to look for a better challange - a bast@rd AI is one way to go about it.

The Bast@rd stepson aside.

Playing against Mephisto�s Xiati is indeed a thrill

Thru the coarse of my TDM game and my affairs with the Xiati, I sense a tug to my right, and as I glance: I see a string raise out of the Atlantic Ocean and whilst the water droplets are falling back to the sea - I gaze upon my screen only to find the Xiati persona has changed

Mephisto has the Xiati AI so finely tuned that it is like the Puppets Master, with a string on the sword that is about to undertake its first slice - and this, is what it is all about

[ June 13, 2004, 14:05: Message edited by: JLS ]