Mopping up the AI

Guille · #1 March 26th, 2003, 01:54 AM

If your enemy is weak, then take one of its planets and order him to surrender.
System destroyers are expensive but useful if your enemy has strong systems.

minipol · #2 March 26th, 2003, 02:09 AM

In my current game i'm nr 1 in everything. I'm busy construction a ringworld and sphereworld and i'm expanding my fleet. Now, i was wondering what the best (quickest) way is to mop up the remaining ai factions (TDM+FQM)
I think a sun destroyer would be ideal for this although i have never built one before.
If you destroy a sun in a system, is your ship also destroyed?

PsychoTechFreak · #3 March 26th, 2003, 02:19 AM

Yes it is. Same for Black hole creation.

Nucleonic disruption torpedo which disrupts all nucleonic reactions in a star, destroying it. The resulting explosion will destroy all planets and ships within the solar system.

minipol · #4 March 26th, 2003, 02:27 AM

So mopping up will be quite expensive as the star destroyer is destroyed together with the star and the system. Well, as i'm building ringworlds the cost will be no factor anymore so i'll start building the sun destroyers.

oleg · #5 March 26th, 2003, 02:48 AM

But why bother ?

Declare yourself a champion and start a new game !

dogscoff · #6 March 26th, 2003, 02:53 AM

Well the alternative is to mash individual planets individually with re-usable ships. Planet busters will do the trick, or loads of planetary napalm. Alternatively, hike up your score by building some big, expensive ships and then see if you can get a domino surrender.

TerranC · #7 March 26th, 2003, 03:04 AM

Domino surrenders won't work against TDM races; some of them have surrenders turned off.

If you're powerful enough to build ringworlds and sphearworlds, why not just build a fleet of baseships and wipe them out?

minipol · #8 March 26th, 2003, 01:59 PM

Baseships move so slow. I think i'll just build a huge fleet of APB DN's and strike planet after planet and meanwhile construct a sun destroyer to kill the systems that are hard to kill.

Just a thought: if i don't destroy the systems, i better place a spy sat in every system to see when other races start to colonize the cleaned systems. Otherwise they could just follow me around and start colonizing every system that i clean.

Ward · #9 March 26th, 2003, 05:58 PM

This is why the victory condition "3x score of 2nd player" is good to have always on.

Try the surrender. Keep trying every turn. I am sure most races will sooner or later give up (in your case this should't Last more than 10-15 turns).

Master Belisarius · #10 March 26th, 2003, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ward:
Try the surrender. Keep trying every turn. I am sure most races will sooner or later give up (in your case this should't Last more than 10-15 turns).

As TerranC wrote, most the TDM had the options:

Will Accept From Friend Demand your surrender := False
Will Accept From Enemy Demand your surrender := False