Won without building 1 combat ship and not trying (On tough difficulty)
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Title says it all 
Something is definitely went wrong in that game with the AI.
I made a HUGE game with 9 opponents. Tough intelligence. Forcing the AI to use the extra "cpu" (I have a dual core). Technology trading was off. I was the altaran resistance with its super-ability. When I got ethics, I went good.
I spawned at the top-left corner of the map. I got a total of 4 planets (crappy ones), which I kept the entire game. I also got 2 mining starbases (research and economy). Thats it. I started off by doing a econ/research treaty with the Dregin, researched things, set up trade routes...and just researched some more. I did not build ONE combat ship the entire game (I just made colony ships and constructors for those starbases).
I had one moment of excitement the whole game. The krynn, which were at the bottom-right (as far as possible from me anyone could be) declared war on me. Immediately, my super-ability went into overdrive and 3-4 races declared war on the Krynn. Since they were kinda far from me and were getting owned, I did not worry and built no warships.
Over the course of the war, most races kept giving me ships! Enough ships that I was roughly "middle" in the military graphs (over 100 in military rating). I found this funny =p. Finally the krynn gave up and begged for peace with me...
All I did with all those free ships was put them in my worlds (I even had to decommission a good number so I woudn't waste research cash no upkeep!!!).
So yeah, I won with a technology victory. Nobody else was even CLOSE to dominating the galaxy and I was never touched. Oh yeah, I had 3 spies land on my planets once and I immediately nullified them..woopie =p.
Winning on tough difficulty without trying, sad...Seems to me the AI isn't even CLOSE to what it used to be before DA. Maybe the "force AI to use all CPU" "advanced algorithms" aren't helping? I dunno.
Oh yeah, I also "edited" all the AI races before the game began, in the personality tab and set it to use 100% of cpu (I hadn't seen the "force AI to use it all" in the options menu).
-Drexion
Something is definitely went wrong in that game with the AI.I made a HUGE game with 9 opponents. Tough intelligence. Forcing the AI to use the extra "cpu" (I have a dual core). Technology trading was off. I was the altaran resistance with its super-ability. When I got ethics, I went good.
I spawned at the top-left corner of the map. I got a total of 4 planets (crappy ones), which I kept the entire game. I also got 2 mining starbases (research and economy). Thats it. I started off by doing a econ/research treaty with the Dregin, researched things, set up trade routes...and just researched some more. I did not build ONE combat ship the entire game (I just made colony ships and constructors for those starbases).
I had one moment of excitement the whole game. The krynn, which were at the bottom-right (as far as possible from me anyone could be) declared war on me. Immediately, my super-ability went into overdrive and 3-4 races declared war on the Krynn. Since they were kinda far from me and were getting owned, I did not worry and built no warships.
Over the course of the war, most races kept giving me ships! Enough ships that I was roughly "middle" in the military graphs (over 100 in military rating). I found this funny =p. Finally the krynn gave up and begged for peace with me...
All I did with all those free ships was put them in my worlds (I even had to decommission a good number so I woudn't waste research cash no upkeep!!!).
So yeah, I won with a technology victory. Nobody else was even CLOSE to dominating the galaxy and I was never touched. Oh yeah, I had 3 spies land on my planets once and I immediately nullified them..woopie =p.
Winning on tough difficulty without trying, sad...Seems to me the AI isn't even CLOSE to what it used to be before DA. Maybe the "force AI to use all CPU" "advanced algorithms" aren't helping? I dunno.
Oh yeah, I also "edited" all the AI races before the game began, in the personality tab and set it to use 100% of cpu (I hadn't seen the "force AI to use it all" in the options menu).
-Drexion
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