AI concerns

Growltigga · #1 April 22nd, 2002, 04:50 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
A bad human player however is likely to pull many "bonehead" manuvers during the course of a game

Ahhaahh, you HAVE seen the Growltigga tactical gameplan then?

Cyrien · #2 April 22nd, 2002, 05:44 PM

In my current single player TDM game with high (or was it medium) AI bonus is going well. In fact I am only secoond place. keep in mind I have 4 conquered races in my federation each of which breathes a different atmosphere. Additionally the ONLY reason I am still alive as the second strongest empire is that I decided to leave tactical combat on for this game and there seem to be an abundance of nebula, asteroid, and black hole systems on my border. If not for these the much superior Jraenor would overwhelm me. They have about half of the Universe under their power and the other half is united with me against them, for the most part they have even stopped fighting each other. If things keep up like this I might actually see an AI get MEE for the first time. Has anyone else ever seen this happen?

PS: I have no idea how far ahead of me the AI #1 is. But I am exponentially stronger than anyone else and from the short time I had a trade treaty with this guy so was he with about a two times greater than me margin.

PPS: I recently used intel to subvert some of his ships. One of them was in a massively scary fleet that happily was on the far end of the universe from me.

PPPS: Note that I am handicapping myself in a few ways. No mines or satellites for static WP defense for instance. Though if things keep up I may change that. Specially since in that fleet of his he had PD and Mine sweeper ships along with carriers and mixed weaponry on mixed hulls. Compliments to whoever altered the TDM races.

neofit · #3 April 22nd, 2002, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by pathfinder:
ow, oh, ow..darn dogscoff : Neofit: I tried the dogged one's suggestion and promptly got my arse handed to me by the Vikings. about 20-30 turns in (high bonuses, etc for the AI) I barely have APB-1 and destroyers and the Vicking meet me, 2 turns later their destroyers are glassing my small planets and the cruisers are *gasp* landing troops and taking over my planets...

Oh, so they get such bonuses in research as to have all these technologies around turn 30? Or they start the game already knowing these techonolgies?

I guess I'll try without bonuses first.

neofit · #4 April 22nd, 2002, 06:56 PM

Where can I get the Shadows Patch please? It's not on the Gold CD, and a search on this board gave three threads with no urls..

geoschmo · #5 April 22nd, 2002, 07:17 PM

TDM 3.10 Shadow Patch

BUT, if you downloaded TDM 3.10 in the Last 24 hours or so, you don't need this. It's been incorporated in the TDM downloads. You only need the shadow patch if you got TDM before they found the Shawdow problem yesterday.

Geo

capnq · #6 April 22nd, 2002, 08:49 PM

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If things keep up like this I might actually see an AI get MEE for the first time. Has anyone else ever seen this happen?

I've got a solo game with the TDM Ukra-Tal as MEE. Don't recall what settings I started with, but on the Scores screen the Ukra-Tal have more than the combined total of the rest of the races in most of the categories.

pathfinder · #7 April 22nd, 2002, 08:52 PM

Neofit: All I gave them was high start bonus. Not sure what that gives them but it sure was enough...