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hmm maybe i should retract my previous statement on the ai, im now hitting turn 250, and i think my ai's all gave up. Ive not seen any of them do much of anything for 20-30 turns, for 5 different factions. Everyone is supposed to be at war with someone or another but i dont see any ships moving from any faction anymore with a exception or two. My enemy for instance has not really defended himself since about turn 200 and just keeps pumping out colony ships to try and

ill try this out next and let you know how it works out. And i tried the tech trading thing with much success in combination with changing the ai personality to races that feel more natural. One of the changed races bugged out completely and just sits on its single planet like a minor race does, but the rest of them are now progressing at a very natural rate, and seem to be alot smoother then the default behavior. I think my next game ill start experimenting with c

Can you log onto your machine as Administrator? [/quote] easier said than done with vista, i dont want to have to sit there and make multiple accounts, go back, make one an admin, reset the pc, go back activate administrator mode through the cmd etc etc . Ill just come back if i get too frustrated. This puts my pc at risk if i do something wrong when disabling this mode again (or so im told) either way this was not the most thought out process in the world

and concerning research trade, i had to turn all tech trading and brokering off. Every difficulty requires you to give more and more for every piece of tech, and im finding at this difficulty i have to give 10 times teh tech value before they are willing to give anything up, and they (the cpu) trade back and forth without penalty seemingly so one or two factions balloon up with tech and roll the rest of them, so i turned off all tech trading/brokering. I was getting upset giving

i am unable to remove the quotes from the command line. It tells me the location is invalid whenever i do. Infact it tells me this whenever i do basically anything to that line even when adding the 'cheat' to the equation. We are talking about the 'target' command line in the shortcut properties menu (the start line wont let me add anything at all)? because everything everyone has ever said tells me invalid as above. Ive got to be on the wrong menu or something

appreciate the response, altho thats more or less what i had been doing for the cheat command, and i still am not having any luck. Maybe im just stupid. and Im wondering if i didnt change the ai of this other race when i had been playing them previously and forgot about it (was awhile back). These thalans had max creativity and research cranked not to mention the natural production bonus's. nyways, thx again.

So im running dread lords and twilight expansions and enjoying myself but for 2 things. The first thing that is driving me nuts is the fog of war. The ai obviously has no such mechanic and keeps going right after the stuff right around me. Well seeing as im already investing too much into exploration and still missing things id like to know how to turn this function off once and for all. Ive tried the 'create shortcut and modify it' thing, but this doesnt seem to act

So dont get me wrong i love this game, and i never say that about really any games these days, but have you noticed that your opponents ships will keep shooting one ship until it dies, and your ships shoot up ALL the other enemy ships first and 'then' finish off the first ship they started on? This just isnt fair as far as im concerned. This is how i school people in rts's, and if they dont do the same thing back to me they will lose EVERY time. Why do i have to have ships many