Team Mode Questions

shino6 · #1 December 27th, 2001, 11:02 AM

I noticed the "human vs. AI" team mode option recently. I'm organizing a PBW game with some friends and wondered if anyone who has played this could describe how it plays. Do all the human players begin in partnership? Does the game count the total score of one side vs. the other to determine the victor? Can you still form alliances with AI players? etc...

Thanks.

Suicide Junkie · #2 December 27th, 2001, 11:41 AM

Well, for one, all AIs immediately declare war on any human they meet.
I think they ally with each other, at least in most cases.
Other than that, it's pretty similar to normal.

To actually get a team victory, you need to also check "Peace for X years" in the victory conditions. Otherwise you'd still be left with a Last-man-standing game.

geoschmo · #3 December 28th, 2001, 02:30 AM

Exactly. You cannot form any alliance with the AI in a team mode game. They will hate you and declare war the turn after they meet you. They will normally form partnerships with each other just as fast. In my "Awakening" scenario I used team mode and the AI's partner with all the other AI's except the one's immediately next to them in the quadrant. Must be something about claimed systems.

Team mode doesn't mean that the human players have to form partnerships. You can ally or make war against other humans, whicever you prefer. It just simply affects the AI level of anger towards other players.

Geoschmo