Top AI scores seen?

[Cyrien]

I remember him. No nothing like that. This is a medium sized galaxy with all default rules cept TDM modpack. Standard 1.49. About 50-60 systems in the game. Large number seem to be asteroid or gas. 3 Black Holes. Almost none of those damaging warp points. Default catastrophe rules etc. I have never seen an AI in any of my other games ever get close to passing 1M score... and yet here I am faced with an AI that has just about finished wiping out all the other AIs (the ones I didn't get) and now has fleets of 40-60 ships in systems bordering mine.

That is the whole purpose of this thread. Just to see if anyone else has ever had the mixed blessing of an AI that did exceptionally well.

Just for the record I know I am behind him in tech but catching up. I am pretty sure his resources are better than mine and he has about 2/3 of the galaxy with a little over half the rest under my control (Long live the Terran Confederation and its seven racial members). Good thing I have races to breathe every atmosphere cept none.

Normally this is about the stage of the game where I would get bored and stop playing because I would get MEE and no other empire could even touch me. Thus I am nicely and pleasantly surprised to find this game still a challenge at this point.

*smacks self* stop rambling.

[ 25 April 2002: Message edited by: Cyrien ]

[TerranC]

Oh great; A new Psychological Syndrome:

Playbyweb post-dysfuctionality syndrome.

Symptoms: Deep psychosis; inherent ramblings and uncontrollable spasms in the human hand. May be caused by the effect dark colours have on the human retina. May cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Cure/Remedy: Take One pill of Prozac, Mix it up with Coffee and baseball bat to bash your computer with. Get Plenty of Rest. Repeat Computer bashing for few days to releave stress.

Also may be called PPDS. Not in affliation or caused by many uses of PDCs and/or PPBs.

[ 25 April 2002: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Mephisto]

I have seen Ais with over 2.5 million points but mostly in test games against other AIs. To get a challenge out of the AI you have to use the right setup IMHO. Many people try to increase the number of AIs and think they get more challenge that way. I think that is not the case. As we all know, the AI isn't that competent if focusing on one enemy is called for. By adding a greater number of AIs the AI will just fight more with itself but will not develop. Further, the AI is not very flexible at deciding what planet should be used for what. To cover all its needs the Ai need a greater number of planets to make sure every important aspect of the game is covered. In essence, you will get a much better game out of a huge galaxy with 6 chosen AI races without neutrals then out of a 20 races game.

[dogscoff]

Hmm. I just started a game with 16 AIs. (no neutrals) Set it to max number of systems though (255) so I thought that might just be big enough to accomodate them all. I also switched "evenly distributed" off. Hopefully some of them will start off with enough empty space around them to become really powerful.

I don't expect to Last long though - Rage, Pyrochette, vikings, aquilean, Vorlons, Shadows, Drakol, Orks and the rest chosen by the Computer. All on high difficulty / low bonus.

I started off with 2 warp points from my system: Both were asteroids. Beyond them an organic infestation in one direction and a Xi-Chung homeworld in the other. Haven't been able to explore beyond that yet.

I've had a few scuffles with the Xi-Chung (including a disastrous assault on their homeworld) and their tech levels scare me - they are so far ahead of me at this early stage it's ridiculous.

Anyway, do you think that playing a giant map like this is what flipped LCC? Do you think the same might happen to me? I hope not. I never wanted to play this map. I never wanted to play this game at all. I always wanted to be... A lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the rivers of British Colombia! Ohhhh... I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK, I sleep all night and I works all day, I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, lunch, brunch, munch, crunch, much munchety crunchety swimmety swim, catchety fishy-O, because the fish are going to take over the world, they're melting the ice-caps and my face is getting wet, let, vet, met, mat, spat, prat, Richard Whitely, Carol Vorderman Vorlon? Nice encounter suit coz fruit is a moot hoot etc etc etc etc...

[Growltigga]

Ahem... thank you for that Dogscoff - I think the tippex fumes are getting to you..

at least you stopped "The Lumberjack Song" before the bit where you go on about wearing high heels, suspenders and a bra!!!

for the north americans and other aliens on this forum, may I just explain that Carol Vorderman and Richard Whiteley are the hosts of a popular daytime television show here in the UK. Richard Whiteley is famous for his poor taste in ties, Carol Vorderman is a classic case of a 40 something B list celebrity who thinks she is sexy as hell and at one stage was appearing all over over TV screens.

I personally think she looks more like a Narn than a Vorlon

[dogscoff]

'Tig - you weren't on this forum when LCC lost it. He was posting pages and pages of that kind of crap to every thread on the forum. (and several others besides)

[dogscoff]

Oh yeah, and the lumberjack tune (now remorselessly cycling round and round in my head) reminds me: I'm working on a Monty Python design name file. How would you like to design a Beautiful Plumage Class Cruiser? A squadron of "Philosophers Song" fighters? How about a Mr Gumby Class Space Yard Ship ("I AM NOW GOING TO FIT THE CONTRA TERRENE ENGINES" *Bang* *Smash* *Crunch* *Crunch* *Crunch*

59 names so far, suggestions welcome.