MP: Noobs, Vets, & AIs: An evolving concept for a new series.

[iainuki]

Random idea: teams of noobs led by a vet racing to kill AIs? (That might be interesting, if the victory condition involved killing *your* AIs first--of course, you could interfere with the other team directly if you thought that was more beneficial than going after your own AIs.)

I'd be more interesting playing in a game like that than a pure against-AIs game, I'll admit.

(We cross-posted, SS.)

I'd be interested in that format, potentially, though I'm not sure how much of a noob I count as...

[Septimius Severus]

Yep, that's the idea. The teams would sort of have to work together to defeat the AI team first (as the AI team would be physically located between them and would be attacking all non-computer players) before destroying each other. They could initiate early remote or flying attacks vs. other human teams but it would be in everyone's interest to tackle the AI menace first.

If you have more than 5 complete MP and 5 SP games under your belt you could qualify for one of the intermediate positions.

We'd need 4 top ranked or very experience vets, 4 Intermediate level players, and 8 noobs to comprise the 4 human teams.

And a non-playing person to design the 4 AI builds. One of those builds could be more powerful than the others effectively giving the AI team a captain of their own.

Very exciting prospect. The independents mod rdonj mentioned would make for an even tougher AI menace.