TDM mayhem

[Growltigga]

Just a quick post to express my sincerest and deepest thanks to the creators and perpetrators of the TDM modpack.

The AI has just handed me my head (again) on only turn 35. Since when are the Colonials meant to hit you with a combined arms assault of perfectly timed waves of fighters, missiles and DUC armed destroyers? since when are the bloody Orks of all people meant to urinate on your french fries by sneaking 2 PDC IV's on DUC armed frigates and laughing at your missile frigate futile attempts to do anything? and will someone tell the wretched Pyrochette to stop attacking me.. and as for the Toron Confederation...... bastards the lot of them..

The only nice ones in the whole bunch are the frakkin' KLINGONS

Messrs T, D and M, I salute you

[dogscoff]

He he heeeee.... Have you had the AI capture your planets yet? That's always the clincher...

[Growltigga]

Dogscoff, no, much to my chagrin I havn't seen any planetary assaults by anyone.. not even the much vaunted Space Vikings (what pillock called the leader Rollo Dogscoffsonson? - I always change the name to Ikea Smorgasbjord) - this is a personal disappointment for me as ground combat IMHO should be a much more fundamental part of the game.. I think that glassing planets should be Banned for non-bloodthirsty races and bring about diplomatic penalties if one does it - bring on the Federation Space Marines is what I say, all-mighty conquerors of the galaxy

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
He he heeeee.... Have you had the AI capture your planets yet? That's always the clincher...

I don't know what it was that made the Space Vikings friendly at first. But I was real supprised when I went MEE and the took a planet in my home system. The bastards didn't even have the decency to use a transport hull, the troops were on a cruiser.

It caught me completely by suprise and made me so mad I had to walk away from the computer for a little bit.

I used long range scanners to make troop ship destruction a top priority after that.

That's some quality A.I. you wrote dogscoff

[oleg]

Vikings are Ice race. If you started as Rock/Gas, there is little overlap at first and Vikinks stay friendly. It can be changed of course by tweaking their AI_Angry file.

[dogscoff]

That's some quality A.I. you wrote dogscoff

Glad you're enjoying them, but the AI isn't mine. I've never even attempted AI modding (Except for the odd speech file=-). Credit for the Vikings AI goes to Rollo. I just did the graphics. I really ought to finish them somewhen...

If you started as Rock/Gas, there is little overlap at first and Vikinks stay friendly.

I believe that was kind of the intention: They are loyal and trustworthy allies but unforgiving (and deadly) enemies.

[Growltigga]

what happens if I tweak the race details on the plaer setup screen so that the little buggers are a rock/oxygen race just like me (I do this with all races in my games in the vague hope the devils will start invading) - I guess I am just a natural born footsoldier

[oleg]

If you change Planet type, say from Ice to Rock,
you should also edit AI_research file. Open it with word processor and look out for "Rock Planet colonization" and change it to "Ice planet colonization". Otherwise they will not research ice planet colonization up to the end of the game.

[oleg]

I edited Vikingks (actually I have only Valkyries, but they are supposed to be the same) research file:

1029158696.txt

It can be used with both Ice and Rock starts
(I just added research Ice after research Rock)

[Growltigga]

Dogscoff, you worry me with this Vikings/Valkyries predilection of yours.. what is next, a race based on an ABBA tribute band?