Ultimate Strategies Mod - Suggestions Wanted!

LostCommander · #1 December 30th, 2002, 08:29 PM

Nice.

Not sure what one COULD do about the strategies though. I never use them myself (addicted to tactical combat, I want to SEE the enemy get crushed, hehe).

Puke · #2 December 30th, 2002, 09:14 PM

there are only a few stratigies i use

passive blocade (dont fire on non-combattants or planets)
active blocade (dont fire on planets)
stand-off (max range/dont get hurt)

I also have some variants on capture planet, capture ship, and ram.

Fyron · #3 December 30th, 2002, 09:44 PM

Well, post them then!

Fyron · #4 January 4th, 2003, 04:30 AM

I am the thing that goes BUMP in the night.

Gwaihir · #5 January 8th, 2003, 12:21 AM

But you can't do tactical in PBW. And tactical is unfair to the AI, because no matter how good a strategy someone gave the AI, you can analyze it and kick the pants off the poor computer even when fairly outnumbered. At least its better than SE3, though, where you could win consistently with 2 to 1 and sometimes with as bad as 3 to 1 odds against you (not counting the madness when you have better ship designs). However, the AI gameplay is much better in SEIV, i have to hand it to Aaron. A human player willing to spend the time to micromanage should in general beat the AI, at least when the playing field is level and the human has played enough to be familiar. Every strategy has a weakness, and the AI is not quite dynamic enough to adapt to someone exploiting its weak points.

Edit: this was in response to LostCommander

[ January 07, 2003, 22:22: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]

Fyron · #6 January 8th, 2003, 02:06 AM

Gwaihir, you could post some new strategies that have different weaknesses then.

Or maybe some that exploit these weaknesses in the default strategies. And besides, playing against Humans is a lot more fun than against AIs. Humans are capable of responding to your strategies.

Fyron · #7 January 11th, 2003, 06:45 AM

Ultimate Strategies Mod v1.00.01

New Version!

This mod makes alterations to the strategies and formations in SEIV Gold. The goal is to expand upon the strategic choices available to the player.

Because formations are controlled by a data file and not changeable from within the game, this mod will allow PBW and PBEM Users to play otherwise normal games with custom formations.

This mod also modifies the DefaultColonyTypes and DefaultDesignTypes files, to create more variety in the default selections.

USMv10001.zip - a 124 KB download

Here's the Readme:

Readme.txt