"How dumb is your AI?" Heck, How DUMB R U!

Spoo · #1 June 2nd, 2002, 06:32 PM

How about choosing "surrender" instead of "demand surrender"...

Gryphin · #2 June 2nd, 2002, 07:40 PM

um Spoo, what time of the morning was it and how long had you been playing? I feel the time of morning is my worst enemy. That and my sweethearts siren song.

capnq · #3 June 2nd, 2002, 10:00 PM

I'll admit to designing a heavily-armed warship, and not noticing until the first one was built that I'd neglected to put any engines on the design.

Gandalph · #4 June 3rd, 2002, 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by capnq:
I'll admit to designing a heavily-armed warship, and not noticing until the first one was built that I'd neglected to put any engines on the design.

Done this one a couple of times with entire fleets being built. What a pain to retrofit each one as it comes off the assembly line, wait for it to get repaired, then try to remember where they were all built!

Gryphin · #5 June 3rd, 2002, 12:35 PM

Gandalph , capnq :
ditto,
Pain in the **** and expensive when you emerganciy build them as 2 hostil fleets converge on you. It was not pretty.

Deathstalker · #6 June 3rd, 2002, 02:34 PM

1) Forgetting that using boarding parties drops your shields!

2) Three-way battle with a colonizer, the colonizer 'runs' from them toward me. I close the distance getting ready to board. He rams me full tilt. Oh by the way, I wrote the AI for this race to do that!

Tenryu · #7 June 3rd, 2002, 02:38 PM

Idiots! Unite!

Sometimes think we should contact MM about idiot proofing this game.

Things such as:

*****When you design a ship with no engines, you get a message like;

1. " YO! Dumbass! You didn't really want to design a ship with NO engines did you?"

*****Or, you are in combat, you shoot at the enemy, you can still move, so can he(it?), and will, but you hit end turn. How about giving us a chance to confirm;

2. "Knock, knock! Ah, anyone home , STUPID? Just thought I'd ask, 'cause if you don't move that ship, the A.I.'s,(Artificial Idiot as opposed to H.I., Human Idiot), is going to kick your bootie!"

*****You issue ships orders they can not complete. How about this message?:

3. "Ohhh Yeah! Sure! Right! Tell you what dummy. You don't issue commands I can't do, and I won't go try and do them. Do we have a deal, stupid? Please say yes."

Yup. We need a more user friendly program.