TDM least to greatest?

[Bluespan]

Thank you for the info.

I am amazed that the XiChung Were last. They are "Mean sons of b....s".


Final 1 United Flora 32
Final 2 Tessellate 27
SemiFinal 3 Space Vikings 23
SemiFinal 4 Aquilaeian 15
Round 6 5 CueCappa 16
Round 6 6 Narn Regime 15
Round 5 7 Pyrochette 15
Round 5 8 Toron 13
Round 4 9 Fazrah 9
Round 4 10 EEE 7
Round 4 11 Khrel 7
Round 4 12 Orks 5
Round 3 13 Gron 6
Round 3 14 Rage 4
Round 3 15 Namovans 3
Round 3 15 Earth Alliance 3
Round 3 17 Sallega 2
Round 3 17 Piundon 2
Round 2 19 Klingon 2
Round 2 20 Teslik 1
Round 2 20 Drakol 1
Round 2 20 Azorani 1
Round 2 20 Praetorians 1
Round 2 20 Colonial 1
Round 1 25 Cylon 0
Round 1 25 Corrian 0
Round 1 25 Romulan 0
Round 1 25 Toltayan 0
Round 1 25 Ekhazan 0
Round 1 25 Shadows 0
Round 1 25 Sergetti 0
Round 1 25 XiChung 0

[Arkcon]

The Tesselate and United Flora need at least a low bonus, and medium bonus is better, to be successful opponents. Their two racial traits take a lot of research, and they may be crushed by another AI first. Conversely, the Rage and the Sergetti fair poorly after a while, their phase polaron beams don't provide much punch, because most TDM modpack AI's can get phased shields up early, again, with the bonus.

[Slick]

I've found that if you want a tougher game against the AI, create larger quadrants with less AI's. This gives them more room to expand, get established and make use of their bonuses. If they encounter other empires early, they'll all set up borders & defenses, usually go to war and stunt each other's growth.

[Hunpecked]

There's also the "team play" option, so the AIs all gang up on the human player(s) and don't fight each other.

Another suggestion, based on my play against TDM AIs, is to play against AIs with the same atmosphere preference as the human player. The AIs aren't as good as humans at matching breathers and atmospheres, so this would reduce a human's advantage somewhat.

Question: Would it affect AI performance to change their atmosphere preference, e.g. when adding the Tessellate to a game, change their atmosphere from carbon dioxide to oxygen?

[Master Belisarius]

Hunpecked said:
Question: Would it affect AI performance to change their atmosphere preference, e.g. when adding the Tessellate to a game, change their atmosphere from carbon dioxide to oxygen?

No, you could change it without any problem.

[Hunpecked]

Thanks, MB.

[Master Belisarius]

Hunpecked said:
Thanks, MB.

No problem!

[inigma]

hey, when are you all gonna think about putting stuff like this in the wiki for easy editing and updating eh?

dont worry, I've taken the liberty, but someone has to finish it:
http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.p...dpack_for_SEIV

[Master Belisarius]

inigma said:
hey, when are you all gonna think about putting stuff like this in the wiki for easy editing and updating eh?

dont worry, I've taken the liberty, but someone has to finish it:
http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.p...dpack_for_SEIV

But this was only the result for the Second Death Match.

All the results are:

DEATH MATCH 1 (December 2002)
==============================

1 Narn
2 Pyrochette
3 EEE - United Flora
5 Earth Alliance - Aquilaeian
7 Klingon - Namovans - Space Vikings - Toron
11 Romulan - Jraenar
13 Shadows - Angelican Regency - Rage - Praetorian - UkraTal - Azorani
19 SWEmpire - EEEVil - XiChung - Vaxin - Orks - Drakol


DEATH MATCH 2 (May 2003)
=========================

Final 1 United Flora 32
Final 2 Tessellate 27
SemiFinal 3 Space Vikings 23
SemiFinal 4 Aquilaeian 15
Round 6 5 CueCappa 16
Round 6 6 Narn Regime 15
Round 5 7 Pyrochette 15
Round 5 8 Toron 13
Round 4 9 Fazrah 9
Round 4 10 EEE 7
Round 4 11 Khrel 7
Round 4 12 Orks 5
Round 3 13 Gron 6
Round 3 14 Rage 4
Round 3 15 Namovans 3
Round 3 15 Earth Alliance 3
Round 3 17 Sallega 2
Round 3 17 Piundon 2
Round 2 19 Klingon 2
Round 2 20 Teslik 1
Round 2 20 Drakol 1
Round 2 20 Azorani 1
Round 2 20 Praetorians 1
Round 2 20 Colonial 1
Round 1 25 Cylon 0
Round 1 25 Corrian 0
Round 1 25 Romulan 0
Round 1 25 Toltayan 0
Round 1 25 Ekhazan 0
Round 1 25 Shadows 0
Round 1 25 Sergetti 0
Round 1 25 XiChung 0


DEATH MATCH 3 (Jan 2005)
========================

Final 1st Place Tessellate 27
Final 2nd Place United Flora 23
SemiFinal 3rd Place Aquilaeian 19
SemiFinal 4th Place Verduran 18
Round 5 5th Place Narn Regime 10
Round 5 6th Place Pyrochette 8
Round 4 7th Place Fazrah 10
Round 4 8th Place Earth Alliance 7
Round 3 9th Place Space Vikings 6
Round 3 10th Place Khrel 4
Round 3 10th Place CueCappa 4
Round 3 12th Place Toron 3
Round 2 12th Place EEE 3
Round 2 14th Place Orks 2
Round 2 15th Place Gron 1
Round 2 15th Place Sallega 1
Round 2 15th Place Rage 1
Round 2 15th Place Corrian 1
Round 1 19th Place Teslik 0
Round 1 19th Place Piundon 0
Round 1 19th Place Azorani 0
Round 1 19th Place Namovans 0
Round 1 19th Place Klingon 0
Round 1 19th Place Drakol 0

[inigma]

feel free to put them on the wiki page for it so it can be remembered forever.