Unusual behaviour

Fyron · #1 May 30th, 2003, 01:26 AM

It is possible he is just trying to confuse the heck out of you, which seems to be working if that is his goal.

Narrew · #2 May 30th, 2003, 01:50 AM

I like Fyrons thought.

At first I thought you were talking about me, then I took my anti-paranoid medicine and realized you were not *whew*.

Sounds like a neat idea though. Bagdad Bob is in control of his Colony Ships.

Nodachi · #3 May 30th, 2003, 01:57 AM

It could just be that he sent the ships before you colonised the worlds and doesn't realise you got them until he gets the unable to colonise message.

Fyron · #4 May 30th, 2003, 02:05 AM

Hey Nod, stop never signing on IRC or MSN.

tbontob · #5 May 30th, 2003, 02:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
It is possible he is just trying to confuse the heck out of you, which seems to be working if that is his goal.

Fyron, that is a understatement!

If that was his purpose, he certainly succeeded!

I am absolutely confused.

Or another variation on your thought, "Let's do something dumb to confuse him. Then he'll focus so much on it, he'll neglect to make the moves he should be making!"

EDIT: Nodachi, that is a possibility. Only thing is that I have colonized these planets for two years.

RE-EDIT Primitive missed your post. Yeh, maybe he is using the colonization minister. Haven't used them myself. But dumb as they are, wouldn't they know a colonized planet from an uncolonized one?

[ May 30, 2003, 01:34: Message edited by: tbontob ]

PvK · #6 May 30th, 2003, 02:47 AM

My first thought was either he or his colonization minister thought they were uncolonized at one point (for instance, when he didn't have a current view of your system), gave them movement orders, and then forgot about them. He didn't even notice for a turn or two until after they had been lounging there. This could happen if he had some colony ships sitting without orders, and then he missed a turn, so the AI took over, the colony minister looked at the mapped-but-unseen system and saw what looked like empty planets, and gave orders to his colony ships to go there, which he didn't even realize until a turn after they had been sitting there. That seems the most probable case.

PvK

tbontob · #7 May 30th, 2003, 02:56 AM

PvK, I hadn't thought of the colonization minister until you and Primitive brought it up.

It is probably is the most likely solution.

I guess when it enters a system it doesn't realize all the planets are colonized. Then on the next turn, it tries to colonize one. Confused, it stays an extra turn (to colonize it again?), and then eventually moves on.

Arrrrggghhhh. Done in by the AI!

EDIT: Or as you point out, maybe he isn't paying much attention to the game.

RE-Edit: Should have done this earlier...went into the game history and he hasn't missed any turns.

RE-REedit. Yeh, I know I was personifying the AI. It doesn't get confused etc. I was spoofing it...tongue in cheek. But as PvK points out, in following its programing, it can do some very odd things depending upon the circumstances.

[ May 30, 2003, 02:29: Message edited by: tbontob ]