"How dumb is your AI?" Heck, How DUMB R U! - Page 2

Gryphin · #11 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 · #12 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 · #13 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 · #14 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 · #15 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 · #16 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.

zen. · #17 June 3rd, 2002, 07:13 PM

I think the consequences of my mistakes are bad enough. Additional abuse like that would make me cry.

zen

capnq · #18 June 3rd, 2002, 07:53 PM

As long as you can turn off the confirmations in options, like the ones that are already implemented. I wish I could do that in Windows.

Gryphin · #19 June 3rd, 2002, 07:56 PM

Maybe it would be possible to Mod our own “Idiot” files?
I would love to read a collection of those.

Cap'n Q, "like the ones in windows". You mean "OK" when it is not ok.

henk brouwer · #20 June 4th, 2002, 04:55 AM

I've posted this one before, but it's worth posting again:

I was playing against the AI, (high difficulty and bonus) and after a couple of difficult fights, I was clearly winning the game. (first position, not finding any resistance) So I thought: "lets make this game more interesting"

So I offered the weakest AI player a trade it couldn't refuse: I was willing to trade my whole empire (ships planets everything) in exchange for two random planets. The Idea was to rebuild my empire from those two worlds.

The AI send a message back: " Sure we accept, you get these two worlds (AI specified two worlds) we get your empire" I accept, and am horified when I discover that the two worlds the AI traded me contained no population, (plagued) And thus, with no population, and no production, I had lost the game.

(needless to say I also made the mistake of not saving the game, so there was no way back either)

If this doesn't win me the "most stupid SE4 player award" than I give up..