gallagher118

Join Date 07/2005

Everyone using same weapons (still)

In some versions I've seen good diversity in weapons choices... But in the last 2 1.3 versions (1 game each), I've had basically most of the AIs pick the same weapons branch. (beams for both games)

Further I have tech trading turned off, which used to help with this problem. (since the AIs don't share their techs at all)

Is this common for everyone ? It makes the game much less challenging and I wonder is this a bug or is it a design decision ? (if it's by design, there needs to be more work done on changing paths when an enemy is defending against it)

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I've only played three games since 1.3 and 1.31 consecutively...

But as I recall the last two AT LEAST (with tech-trading always turned off), the AI have all used missile weapons and defenses. It does make it pretty easy.

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I had tech trading on, and I haven't seen it.

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How many AIs are you playing against? I've noticed that the each race tends to pick a weapon and defence set, and then research those almost exclusivly. That might explain why they've gone beams both times...

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Hi!
In my first and only one 1.3 game (no tech trade, genious AI) most known races at begining used mass-drivers, but two of them had missiles. Haven't seen any with beams. Drengin's primary is still guns (HD spike), but they got pretty high in missiles too (Photon Torpedo).

BR, Iztok

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I'm playing my first 1.3 game right now with 9 AIs.
8 of them choose missiles, 1 choose beams.
I'm a little suspicious of this 8-1-0-ratio because I've had the same experiences as you in previous patches. Hopefully, this will be fixed sometime.

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Really because I thought It was based on race. Torians prefer beams, Yor prefer mass drivers, Thalan prefer missles. The Ai tends to really on missles alot early game but I never see them even in photon form late game.

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Fate

Join Date 05/2006

In every game I have ever played, in every version (tech trading on) the AI have all chosen to go the missile path, I presumed that this was because missile's are so much stronger than beam and mass driver, and it did get kind of anouying at predictable, They did however attempt to research whichever defencive technology I was making my offensive tech's, as I was the strongest. Pritty easy gameplay, and it did get anouying.

Fate,

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I've recently been playing with tech trading on, and I've noticed this as well. I want to play some games with it off to see if it makes a difference. Either way, the devs have said there will be no more patches or updates until after Dark Avatar comes out.

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Frogboy

Join Date 03/2001

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We're not seeing this. There are some games where everyone picks similar weapons and there are games where they are all different.

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In my last game all weapons were in use.
It really varies. I have seen a couple games where it was mostly beam and mass drivers, and some with mainly missles. But there has been a good mix overall.

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Yep, same here. In my current 1.31 game on tough the Drath are using the Beam-Mass Driver combination. It really depends on the game.

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We're not seeing this. There are some games where everyone picks similar weapons and there are games where they are all different.

It might be a good idea to have one or 2 races that try to be different from everyone else, as that is a good strategy and would help the game. (if this isn't already so)

Realize this maybe tricky, since you need to know what you're opponents are up to. (espionage spending early)

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