drengin a.i observations
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Brad said that he had tweaked with the drengin ai. and here are some commeents. I started in a gigantic galaxy, planets everywhere, drengin and torians set to genius, arcean to smart. yor to average, altarians to dumb. I played till i had seen the minor races and all the ai.s i then save the game and played it 2 different ways.
1. shut every down to 0 tax, 0 spend, and watched all the battles. The Drengin eventually had influence of 80% of the galaxy, the arceans were basically in second place followed by the the torians, They owned all the setors in the galaxy. (see even an smart a.i. can beat a genius a.i.
) There were 680 ships and the turn took less than 2 seconds (maybe because i wasn't doing anything)
2. Went out to defeat the drengin (thery were economically and militarily the strongest) Influenced all the rest of the a.i's to go to war with them. (remember without alliances going to war can be a brief affair for the a.i's) This put the drengin way down (i also spent a fortune destabalizing him!) Eventually he surendered to the yor (the only one not at war with him) The torians became friendly and allied with us, and then the arceans till it woas just a mop up action. I peeked at the debug file 1.7megs (mostly attempts to play unregistered files) and i saw all the liitle things that are happening between the a.i's nice work stardock!
one of the old threads suggested that we have an anti-espionage tech. I totally agree with that. but i offer the following ideas to go along with that.
if you are doing espionage on a race, how about reporting back who he really likes and who he really hates (then enemy of my enemy is my friend) what levels are each of the relationships at.
how about a tech that reports when the a.i's are either trying to destabalise me or are attempting to steal some tech.
how about ultra espionage where we can subtley persuade an a.i. to come around to our thinking (cultural influence bomb in their capitol)
as we attempt to destabalize an a.i. they should start complaining about it. complain then go down on the relationship scale, till he says stop it or i feed you to the furnaces.
what do you think?
1. shut every down to 0 tax, 0 spend, and watched all the battles. The Drengin eventually had influence of 80% of the galaxy, the arceans were basically in second place followed by the the torians, They owned all the setors in the galaxy. (see even an smart a.i. can beat a genius a.i.
) There were 680 ships and the turn took less than 2 seconds (maybe because i wasn't doing anything)2. Went out to defeat the drengin (thery were economically and militarily the strongest) Influenced all the rest of the a.i's to go to war with them. (remember without alliances going to war can be a brief affair for the a.i's) This put the drengin way down (i also spent a fortune destabalizing him!) Eventually he surendered to the yor (the only one not at war with him) The torians became friendly and allied with us, and then the arceans till it woas just a mop up action. I peeked at the debug file 1.7megs (mostly attempts to play unregistered files) and i saw all the liitle things that are happening between the a.i's nice work stardock!
one of the old threads suggested that we have an anti-espionage tech. I totally agree with that. but i offer the following ideas to go along with that.
if you are doing espionage on a race, how about reporting back who he really likes and who he really hates (then enemy of my enemy is my friend) what levels are each of the relationships at.
how about a tech that reports when the a.i's are either trying to destabalise me or are attempting to steal some tech.
how about ultra espionage where we can subtley persuade an a.i. to come around to our thinking (cultural influence bomb in their capitol)
as we attempt to destabalize an a.i. they should start complaining about it. complain then go down on the relationship scale, till he says stop it or i feed you to the furnaces.
what do you think?