"Your growth is astonishing!"

Varelen · #1 January 2nd, 2003, 04:54 AM

Ever have silly statements from AI allies like that, when it was so opposite from the truth it was hillarious?

I'm playing a P&N game where after some mild successes taking a couple enemy colony ships and frigates, I was forced to run my ships back to home and scrap down to just one ship, because my resources somehow went from overall positive to negative, and minerals were running out from maintenance on 2 frigates (even though I had 10% trade with an ally).

So just after I scrap everything but one supply ship, my allies say, "Your Growth is Astonishing", lol. (I have 2 planets, my homeworld and one colonized using a captured colony ship)

Anyone else have really funny lines from the AI like that?

Taera · #2 January 2nd, 2003, 05:00 AM

mineral planets are the best, said by an organic race. that made me to make it "organic planets are the best" for my Taera race.

Fyron · #3 January 2nd, 2003, 05:00 AM

How about "Mineral planets are the best." in a P&N game? Ships tend to cost a lot more rads than mins in P&N.

PvK · #4 January 2nd, 2003, 09:09 AM

One of my Favorites is what the Space Vikings say about planets!

minipol · #5 January 2nd, 2003, 05:57 PM

Varelen, just a tip, if you can, do not scrap those ships rather mothball them. I saw this tip somewhere here around the forum and eversince, i always produce more ships than i need. I mothball those and they are my reserver troops in case my fleet gets hit hard.

ZeroAdunn · #6 January 2nd, 2003, 10:42 PM

I think I will make my race every now and then say: "Hey, how ya doin?" That sounds more reasonable.

Gryphin · #7 January 2nd, 2003, 11:56 PM

Is there a way to design in how often the AI will generate a random message?

Ragnarok · #8 January 3rd, 2003, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Is there a way to design in how often the AI will generate a random message?

I don't believe there is.
One way to make a message be sent more is to input it more often in the .txt file.

Baron Munchausen · #9 January 4th, 2003, 07:14 AM

Yep, 'General' Messages are just that, random junk. So I've just modded the Messages to be irrelevant to the game situation. "Beware of Geeks bearing .GIFs!" and "Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity." and things like that...

Raging Deadstar · #10 January 6th, 2003, 06:54 PM

Ever played the zedron empire? i did today and one of the random Messages is "beware Rabid Drunken Space Monkeys, they were Last seen heading in your Direction. Watch out! They Fling Poo!!!" This is no joke and it was in my Version of the download, have a look and make sure i'm not hallucinating!