My Request to Mod Makers and Strategy First

President_Elect_Shang · #1 February 2nd, 2007, 09:55 AM

I don't believe SJ's mod has AI either.

thebigsilly · #2 February 2nd, 2007, 10:40 AM

oh poo poo

President_Elect_Shang · #3 February 2nd, 2007, 11:08 AM

I don't think he has plans to make an AI any time soon and I am writing for my AI currently but it will take some time to finish. There are over a dozen files of AI code that is rolled up per empire. Since the SFTC and Lite are complete re-writes of the game (no Stock components, hulls, etc) I am ending up re-writing all but one or two of the files. Some are simple and quick like the scripts dealing with research. Others like the ship choice and design are pains in the exhaust port. For example I had to get MM to teach me how to expand the weapon call choices as the base three Stock uses wouldn't allow me to flesh out the SFTC ships properly.

Suicide Junkie · #4 February 2nd, 2007, 01:32 PM

As you should be able to see from the screenshot provided, the missiles are going every which way, spreading quite nicely.
SE5 spaces out the shots by a millisecond or two in combat, so that four blaster bolts will travel all in a row instead of stacked on top of each other looking like one bright shot.

Everything of mine is up on imagemodserver.mine.nu, in a browsable tree structure for convenience.
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE5/Mods/
Is where you'll find GGmod.

If you've got SE4, CarrierBattles mod has great AI thanks to Rollo, and can be found under MM/SE4/Mods, naturally.

PS:
You sounds like quite a reasonable multiplayer... player. As long as you can get around to playing consistently (every two days, say) you'd be perfect for PBW.

Shadowstar · #5 February 3rd, 2007, 02:44 AM

If you are interested in multiplayer, keep an eye out for my mod, Starscape. It is designed specifically around multiplayer, though unlike in previous versions of Starscape, this time I am supporting AI's.

I still have a ways to go with development, but it's coming along. I'd like to implement a way to make it easier to spread shots out, but aside from tweaking the strategies I don't see a way to do this. However, given Starscape's nature, I'm sure one of the players will invent it into the game and it will become common pool thanks to my godly GM powers.

heh...

thebigsilly · #6 February 4th, 2007, 09:18 AM

Thank you.

Okay, I have an account on PBW now. I'll look for you all!