[quote]Part of the tactics is balancing relations with the other races. To get the pirates off your back, simply increase the bounty on another race. [/quote] As well as make sure there are two empires that has a bounty on them as the AI seldom puts a bounty on a third party.
To have a FFA without missions you need to have "Lock teams" even if there is no teams. This help keeps the AI from ganging up on you while you learn the game. Also a trick which often works when it comes to pirates in to place a small bid on any two empires right before the pirate raid. Most of the time the AI will continue bid on those two where you placed the bids instead of placing them on someone that has no bid on them. (hopefully that includes you)
[quote]There is no games strategy or otherwise that has an AI that can out smart an average human being.Chess[/quote] Ok there is an exception yet even many chess programs cheat in the sense as it's uses an opening library in the beginning(instead of using the AI) to keep from making bad mistakes as well as avoid many traps.
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Yet sadly diplomacy is the only thing that gives any kind of challenge to the game. I found locked teams FFA way too easy so far.
[quote]Indeed, I imagine the intent with the rising costs was to limit it to larger empires at the high end, but it simply doesn't work on the huger maps where even small players have many planets.[/quote] Or to add strategy which works well on small - large maps. So there is a price of having bigger fleets too fast.
[quote]......I can utterly obliterate pretty much anyone. But I can't advance far because the AI simply groups together the ones I'm not attacking and goes hairy apes*** in my core worlds the instant my fleet moves. They can hold out for a while, as every one of them is maxed on defenses, but I still have to return the fleet to avoid losing my major planets.Once you hit the fleet cap on a large enough map, the game automatically approaches a kind of equilibrium, where the effort required to adva
[quote]The best would be a % bonus to money/resources.Well why not do a system with Forge Tools then?. Help the AI. It is possible to make a map thats totally impossible for the player already.[/quote] A more simple way would to give the AI a head start. So do nothing for the first 10-30 minutes. Yet this still wouldn't help the fact the AI is poor at defending as well as some odd reason it's very slow in researching military tech.
[quote]There seems to be varying accounts on the a.i., with some claiming it as being extremely difficult, and others calling it a pushover.....Meh. I rarely believe those who say they plow through 20 hard a.i.'s with the greatest of ease......but that's just me.Anyway, I'm not entirely certain how "cheating" a.i. will make the experience better. It will still conduct the same tactics, only it'll be creating ships faster. Further, it's not like you're out thinking a wily opponent, just strugglin
One of the problems I have with AI running away is it often doesn't work. I can still destroy their fleets (or planets) by chasing after them between planets. AI badly needs to be better at planets defenses so it can retreat it out numbered fleet to them and make a stand. Just running away isn't a good strategy since there is nothing to keep me from following them and blasting them away.
If "bigger is always better/wins" than why not just end the game after conquering over 50% of the planets?
I believe a better idea would be to scale how tough defense and planets are relative to map size. A large map defenses needs to survive longer so you huge fleets have time to respond from greater distances compared to small maps.
[quote]It's simply impractical to be able to defend in wide-open Huge maps with few or no chokepoints. You can defend but never advance, or you can advance but only if you lose other planets.[/quote] That's where strategy come in. You can't have your cake and eat it too. At least with the AI and when I have a huge empire it's no big deal to loses a few planet if I can wipe out an AI player (at least destroy it's capital) as this is much closer to victory than gain a few more planets.
I like the Fleet % system because it requires a little more strategy. It like in chess you have to be careful when you move a pawn since they can't move backward , the same with increasing your fleet size as the cost can't be reversed.
[quote] While an effective strategy, it's really kind of boring, takes for EVER, and isn't much fun. I'd prefer on a really big map to have a higher fleet cap so I could coordinate my defense better while still having a viable offense. [/quote] Yet increasing the fleet size in reality only makes your small number of fleets even larger so to make defense weaker. Also as some players here noted sometimes it better to sacrifice a few planets
Yes, just "lock teams" so you don't have to fool with missions. (if you have "unlock teams" you got to do the missions in order to keep all of them from ganging up on you which can be tough on large maps) To some gamers having 3 AI vs the player is an even match.
I agree that AI isn't too good 1 vs 1 for any game. Like in most game the only way to have a 1v1 AI challenge would to give the AI a head start.
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I agree with rfc2460 also. It sounds like smart playing with the AI. If you play multiplayer do you think they would sit there and let you destroy their fleet when they can clearly see them outnumbered? Also you noted that 7 siege frigates winning over 7 turrets when 7 siege frigates is a lot bigger investment on the AI part than your 7 turrets. I do want it possible for the AI to be able to take planets when it has the bigger investment. So SD/IC please, I beg you, don't dumb down
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I feel a later release would be wiser to have more time to balance and improve the AI with all the new stuff.
I feel Civ4 is the most balanced of all civ series yet for some this will make the game less interesting. What really made Civ2 shine was "simplicity" (like a board game). For example; artillery was just another unit with high attack and low defense so the AI didn't have to be programed to handle artillery different unlike Civ3 and Civ4. Another Ex; civ2 had a simple way of dealing with "Stacks of Doom"; if you lose the defender when attacked outside of a city or fort then the whole stack is de
[quote] Firaxis is about three times our size (compare Civ IV credits with GalCiv II credits ). [/quote] You wouldn't know it by the good consumer support, fully loaded expansions with the many updates we get with Galciv2. We did get a huge expansion with Civ4 BTS though. <b
[quote] My guess would be in a future sequel. [/quote] GalCiv Revolution?
I've notice all of these crash while loading ship. This includes my save crashes as well.
[quote] Am I the only here who would never be able to stand gigantic maps? Are you guys moaning because now there are 300 planets instead of 400? I would HATE having to manage 400 planets. God, it would be so tedious.... ordering 400 new starships to the frey when trying to take over the galaxy every few turns... Screw that. [/quote] Actually DA 1.8a gigantic abundant planets and stars map gives you around 450 habitable planets while DL gave you aroun
I've also experience a CTD saved game. I lost about 2 hours of game play when the game CTD then I tried to reload both autosaves which both crashed. I had to go back to my quick save which I save earlier today .
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