Natural Merchant racial tech?

CW · #1 August 19th, 2001, 06:46 AM

In my opinion you got to really screw up big to get your most important production system's space port smart-bombed or blockaged. If that happens your opponent probably is so ahead of you that you have no chance anyway, with or without the space port!

Phoenix-D · #2 August 19th, 2001, 07:04 AM

Only takes one shot, similar to plague bombs. Forgot to build a sensor platform or two, he sneaks in a ship and.. boom.

Phoenix-D

Baron Munchausen · #3 August 19th, 2001, 04:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Only takes one shot, similar to plague bombs. Forgot to build a sensor platform or two, he sneaks in a ship and.. boom.

Phoenix-D

Yeah, the smart bombs actually make the planetary intelligence operations valuable. Once you know where your enemies' space ports are you can deprive them of entire systems worth of production. I wonder if the AI would know how to use a smart bomb equipped ship?

Mad_Lear · #4 August 19th, 2001, 09:30 PM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
I wonder if the AI would know how to use a smart bomb equipped ship?

I don't think so. One of the most fundamental complaints made against the AI is that it "forgets" everything that happened the Last turn, and plays each turn completely out of context of what happened in preceding turns, and what is likely to happen in future turns. So, even if an intel project tells it where a space port is, it won't "remember" where it is long enough to send a smart bomb ship to it. One of the many reasons purely information-based tech attacks should probably be ignored by the ai intel minister.

Baron Munchausen · #5 August 19th, 2001, 10:58 PM

More than that, would it be smart enough to RUN AWAY after it had destroyed the Space Port? I've been contemplating setting one of the AIs up to research bio-weapons and build "planet sabotage" ships equipped only with the bio-weapon and lots of shields/armor to survive the attack run. But I suspect that the AI would just sit there and keep pounding the planet with the 15 points per hit of the plague bomb and not know to HAUL @SS after getting one hit. So, I haven't bothered.

tesco samoa · #6 August 19th, 2001, 11:47 PM

Question.

How does one go about finding out exactly where the enemy is keeping their space ports??

Another question

How about system wide stuff?

Another question

Can I get the intel answer and the non intel answer?

Thank you very much in advance for your answers.

tesco samoa · #7 August 22nd, 2001, 08:27 PM

bump>

Any answers???