Life as a superpower...

[Atrocities]

As a fellow "Super Power," how do you turn off the Mega Evil empire setting?

Not much of an AI guy, but with some basic instructions, I can do most anything.

Oh ya, how do you set it so the AI will use Base Ships?

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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard
New Age Ship Yards

[Dragonlord]

Atrocities,

I believe you have to edit a line in settings.txt that says something like MEE=True and set it to False.
Or just up the points limit from 500 to 800 or so. Note however that with default settings you do not automatically become MEE at 500, in my current game I am at 650 and still have alliances with several AI players. This is because in addition to passing the 500 level your score must also be (I think 175 % of the 2nd ranked player...and in my game I am barely in first place.

Woohoo! I finally posted something useful in stead of bugging people here with questions !

[Jubala]

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Originally posted by Dragonlord:
Woohoo! I finally posted something useful in stead of bugging people here with questions !

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Well, if you bug people with questions long enough you'll soon be able to answer other people that is bugging people with questions.

[Atrocities]

Thanks.

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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard
New Age Ship Yards

[PsychoTechFreak]

quote:

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Originally posted by Jubala:
Well, if you bug people with questions long enough you'll soon be able to answer other people that is bugging people with questions.

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Another "Sesame Street" fan...

[Taqwus]

ISTR that the line is "AI Uses Mega-Evil Empire" in settings.txt. And yes, you can tweak both the absolute threshold (number of points required to qualify) and the relative threshold (ratio to second-place player)...

...OTOH, maybe a better approach is to tweak the happiness files? If MEE is still used, *but* the happiness shift is reduced, then you may be able to maintain alliances with br^H^Hforeign aid. Not sure if that will work, 'tho.


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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Dravis]

You can edit the AI data files(*empire*_AI_happiness.txt) so that they will not become very angry with you or you can even make it so that they will like you.