Top AI scores seen?

[Taz-in-Space]

I guess you are talking about a single planet start? I did see some Uber scores on a game I played Months ago - of course that game had a 10 planet start and a huge map of a couple of hundred systems.
Come to think of it, I don't think I ever finished it...It was getting to be too much micromanagement!

[oleg]

AFAIK, there was only one person ever Banned in SE IV forum, the name shall not be mentioned. At first he was a marry chap and fun to read. But once he started "AI in Very Big Game" - single player game with dozen AI in 255 systems, every one with 10+ planets. He vowed to post the progress reports evry ten turns or so. After few days his posting detiorated to randon string of words spreading ro each and every thread. Few more days and we never heard of him again. Be afraid, be very afraid of what can come out of this thread...[sinister music]...

[ 25 April 2002: Message edited by: oleg ]

[Jmenschenfresser]

A real post modern horror story!

[Richard]

Ahh, LCC. And to think he was on of our top posters and modders at one point .

[Cyrien]

I remember him. No nothing like that. This is a medium sized galaxy with all default rules cept TDM modpack. Standard 1.49. About 50-60 systems in the game. Large number seem to be asteroid or gas. 3 Black Holes. Almost none of those damaging warp points. Default catastrophe rules etc. I have never seen an AI in any of my other games ever get close to passing 1M score... and yet here I am faced with an AI that has just about finished wiping out all the other AIs (the ones I didn't get) and now has fleets of 40-60 ships in systems bordering mine.

That is the whole purpose of this thread. Just to see if anyone else has ever had the mixed blessing of an AI that did exceptionally well.

Just for the record I know I am behind him in tech but catching up. I am pretty sure his resources are better than mine and he has about 2/3 of the galaxy with a little over half the rest under my control (Long live the Terran Confederation and its seven racial members). Good thing I have races to breathe every atmosphere cept none.

Normally this is about the stage of the game where I would get bored and stop playing because I would get MEE and no other empire could even touch me. Thus I am nicely and pleasantly surprised to find this game still a challenge at this point.

*smacks self* stop rambling.

[ 25 April 2002: Message edited by: Cyrien ]

[TerranC]

Oh great; A new Psychological Syndrome:

Playbyweb post-dysfuctionality syndrome.

Symptoms: Deep psychosis; inherent ramblings and uncontrollable spasms in the human hand. May be caused by the effect dark colours have on the human retina. May cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Cure/Remedy: Take One pill of Prozac, Mix it up with Coffee and baseball bat to bash your computer with. Get Plenty of Rest. Repeat Computer bashing for few days to releave stress.

Also may be called PPDS. Not in affliation or caused by many uses of PDCs and/or PPBs.

[ 25 April 2002: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Mephisto]

I have seen Ais with over 2.5 million points but mostly in test games against other AIs. To get a challenge out of the AI you have to use the right setup IMHO. Many people try to increase the number of AIs and think they get more challenge that way. I think that is not the case. As we all know, the AI isn't that competent if focusing on one enemy is called for. By adding a greater number of AIs the AI will just fight more with itself but will not develop. Further, the AI is not very flexible at deciding what planet should be used for what. To cover all its needs the Ai need a greater number of planets to make sure every important aspect of the game is covered. In essence, you will get a much better game out of a huge galaxy with 6 chosen AI races without neutrals then out of a 20 races game.