A.I., making them harder. **UPDATE** Dec.10th08

Don't forget

making it take mines at gasgiants etc

making it deploy strikecraft when traveling through a gravwell

making it not sending 5-10ships to a fortress world they won't even dent

making them ues superweapons

making it able to focus fire

making it NOT retreat like a chicken

making it NOT gang up on the human player but treat everyone equal

making it scrap unneeded ships (having 25flakfrigs when im not using carriers is kinda lol)

making it value non colonizeble grav wells alot higher ( on my fav map dubblegangers you can just park 20 carriers in their sun's grav well and you have won)

making it prio killing ships based on the danger it posses not how ez it is to kill ( shooting on a hv cruiser with 5 guardians and a mothership around is an utter waste of dps)

maling it NOT announce what planet it is attacking( yo US this is Japan calling we're gonna hit pearl harbour in 5 hours ok? lol history rewrittin- and there is allready a warning system in place through reshearch)

making it take out pirat bases, as with extractors in neutral grav wells it gives away a fairly substantial incomgain

Or just make it able to make Pie so it's atleast good for something

On a side note, im looking into this aswell but im pretty sure it is hardcoded into the game QQ but dang i wish game developers would start focusing on AI and gameplay instead of making pretty battles and reduntant features I don't get it. WTT 1980 grafics with an AI that can provide a challenge.

LOL! I can hardly beat Hard Ai..so I guess we both have a different definition of challenge

SoaSE + Deep Blue bring it on

I beet unfair on 8x speed. That was hard

Dang, that is well played. on what map?

Deep Blue, the Super Computer?

8x where do you set the speed? Are you talking about server options? On fastest?

I did figure out on gameeventdata. I set AI to have 2 capital ships from the begining of the game. But Human players also had 2 capital ships. So it gives everyone in the game 2 capital ships (1 Capital Colony & 1 Dreadnought Class).

I also beefed up rogue and militia forces an fleet upgrade. They have Capital ships and Dreadnoughts protecing there planets not to mention PD also. I also made the Pirate Base super bad! Not to mention Pirate raids, OMG! Better have your Planet Defense up! Or make sure the raid is on the AI....

Oh, I did metion something about dreadnoughts. I made each faction have the dreadnought class. The most powerful ships in the game. Will aslo cost you a pretty penny (75k creds, 5k met, 5k cryst). But the damage they do once leveled up is awesome. They are slow ships though. Good PD can ripe them apart or medium sized fleet of just cruisers and frigates can ripe them up vs one Dreadnought. So dreadnoughts need a small or bigger sized fleets to keep them alive. Leveled up Dread vs Dread slugging it out is a white knuckle fight...

Last night we played a beta test of it. It was harder I lost my dreadnought had to save up and get a new one. NOT a cheap option....

The AI still needs to make a better planet defense. Buy more capitals and secondary cruisers. They need to move and take out PD first before fleet in that area of the battle. So on and so forth. Allot more can be done...

As to the OP, the AI is mostly closed source and can't be modified. Gameplay.constants has some weighing values that the various AI personalities use to prioritize what they build so you can try tweaking those, but beyond that there's nothing we can do about it.

The AI is getting beefed up in Entrenchment, though, according to IC.

You know what's odd? I was playing the SOGE mod on a custom map I had and the computer actually took out and captured the pirate base. I had never seen that before. Totally shocked.

small random, i was testing my mod

if you hit the "+" and "-" keys on your keyboard it scales the speed.

yeah, i was being facetious.

@G57, I am trying to mod the Pirates also, can you help me here: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/332236

(sorry for the thread snipe)

I cant remember the last time I lost to the AI (not counting when I was try the hal achievement) two unfair verse me is fun more than that not so much fun 

thats good mod you got there... is there any realease date??

I love the idea of a harder AI since I usually play coop with a friend against it, but I doubt giving AI buildings and ships insane abilities is the right way. It wouldn't be an improvement to the AI at all, just a cheat. I already find unfair mode pretty boring as it's just a cheat and not an intelligent AI.

Changing the retreat-checks or making it conquer the uncolonizeable harvesting arrays/the pirate base is the right way to go.

just a guess but I bet that is hard-code stuff.

maybe it will be upgraded with Entrenchment?

I am ready to go for release. I just need premissions first. Make sure nobody's toes get stepped on.

Not unless you want to beta test this mod? Ask me...

AI does conquer netruel mines.

They don't have insane abilities.

Right now the AI colinizes Gas Gaints, Magnetic Clouds, Wormholes, Astriod Belts and Plasma Storms. They do capture mines at those places.

I got the pirates pretty much fearless and deadly. You don't want them coming after you.

Intelligent AI, your right. I can't seem change that behavior. It's like sometimes they are smart and most of the time they are dumb...

How did you get them to colonize all the nuetrals?

So your modifications from your first post like the 800dmg Gauss Gun won't make it into the mod? Then all is fine .

It will be in the mod and oh well...

How did you get the AI to colonize neutrals?

Okay once I set those other places (gas gaints asteriod belts, gas clouds and so on) to colonize. The AI then captured the nuetrals roids...

lol...