I am bummed out

Socialist · #1 January 15th, 2001, 03:54 AM

Jubula,

wait till we can play humans..no easy kills
much more interesting..grin..

ill play you once they get it fixed that we can.

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Socialist

Jubala · #2 January 15th, 2001, 06:50 AM

Socialist, we can play humans now. PBEM.

I know, I do. Much better competetion. I suppose you mean TCP/IP and I'll gladly play with you when we can.

pathfinder · #3 January 15th, 2001, 06:55 AM

Maybe one of the reasons I get spanked so much as I do a modified tactical battle, use tactical but set it on auto ....I am to lazy and impatient to move every ship myself

[This message has been edited by pathfinder (edited 15 January 2001).]

Atrocities · #4 January 15th, 2001, 11:21 AM

Count me in on that TCP/IP game too.

Provided that it does not exceed 6 hours, and does not occur on a day or night that I have to work.

And, as a side note, be prepared to meet the Atrocities onslought.

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UmberGryphon · #5 January 15th, 2001, 11:16 PM

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Originally posted by Blue Lord:
My conclusion is that there's a thing just like the MegaEvil empire setting that when your score is X % of the second, he'll surrender.

That's right. It's 1000% (ten times) their score for most AIs, and 5000% (fifty times) their score for the xenophobes (the Amon'Krie and the Sergetti).

See the topic "An analysis of the AI_Anger files in 1.19" for this information and lots of other good stuff.

Nyx · #6 January 16th, 2001, 07:19 PM

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wait till we can play humans..no easy kills much more interesting..grin..

Try hotseat sometime. Corrupt your friends if need be. It's grand fun. I've got a couple people I play hotseat with all the time. It's the most fun way to play, way better than any form of Online play because you're face-to-face and can trash talk all the time. Plus, if you lose, you can make your buddy appologize by buying you pizza.

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jonas · #7 January 17th, 2001, 12:45 AM

It does seem like the AI gives up too easily in some cases, like surrendering completely without a fight like you mentioned. Here's another example.

In one game, and even before I hit Evil Mega, though I was still the most powerful empire around, I took a chance and asked one of the neutrals on my doorstep to give me a settled planet in his system. To my surprise, he did. I waited a while, then I asked for another. Again, he gave it to me. He wound up giving me every planet in his home system except his homeworld, which I didn't bother asking for -- I just moved a fleet in and boom! Another application for membership in the Federation has been approved!

Well that went pretty well I thought, so with the next neutral I started the same process, this time asking for a planet as a "gift" every turn, and as his Last "gift", I asked for his homeworld, and I got it! I had to fight a few stray ships that no longer had home planets but that was about it.

Then I started the same process with a weak player empire, that had somehow never managed to get out of its own system. He started giving away planets too! But at that point, I wanted to actually use my rapidly-getting obsolete fleets in combat, so I just went in and stomped him.

The moral of the story I guess is that there should be some things you don't give away, no matter what.