Super Stations and Stellar Manipulation

[wingte]

Well,, SE III AI allowed me to destroy all the planets and the fleet refuses to move from the sun. SE III also seems to be cheating since even though the AI race has no planets it is somehow generating enough maintanance points to keep the fleet active.

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Wingte

[Master Belisarius]

Wingte: if you have resources to build a Sun Destroyer, surely you have resources to build a fleet and destroy the Super Station...

Also, note that most of the big ships (DN and Base Ship), and the Super Battle Stations, are useless: you need so many turns to finish to construct it (and a lot of money)... then a good human player never create biggest ships than BC. It's better 5 finished LC, than 5 unfinished DN.

Sometimes the Sun Destroyer it's a good option (against humans), but sometimes not: you need to expend a lot of resources.

Second, if you're playing against the AI, and want an interesting game, I suggest to you play without Warp Point manipulation, because the SE3 AI rarely use the Warp Point Manipulation tech...

Third: with the game master password, change the AI player into human, and you could see that the AI is not cheating.

[JenMax]

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Originally posted by wingte:
Well,, SE III AI allowed me to destroy all the planets and the fleet refuses to move from the sun. SE III also seems to be cheating since even though the AI race has no planets it is somehow generating enough maintanance points to keep the fleet active.

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I don't have SE3, but in se4, in the settings.txt file there is a setting for mininum empire production. It's default setting is 200 or 2000 (as I recall). So an empire with NO source of resources would still "collect" this mininum amount. Perhaps this is also true in SE3?

Enjoy



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