"How dumb is your AI?" Heck, How DUMB R U!

Q · #1 June 2nd, 2002, 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by dreamplace:
I strongly ask MM to show a reminder that when player try to order a cloaked staller maniplateion ship to do something, it need to be decloak first or it will fail.

Or even better make this an automatic procedure as for the minesweepers: When you give an order that can't be executed while cloaked, the ship moves first to the sector where the action should be made, then decloaks and executes the order and then cloaks again.

Nodachi · #2 June 2nd, 2002, 02:18 PM

One time I built a large fleet of the same ship just to go after an enemy several systems away. About halfway there my fleet stopped and wouldn't move any farther. I was livid! I called the game everything in the book, it had to be a bug! I got to looking a little closer and realised that the fleet was out of supplies, I had forgotten to put a quantum reactor on my design! Needless to say I'm a moron!

Nodachi

Taz-in-Space · #3 June 2nd, 2002, 05:12 PM

Nodachi, I have done similar things. I once ran a small fleet out of supplies in a black hole system!

Edit: spelled two words wrong in this small post!

[ June 02, 2002, 16:13: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

Nodachi · #4 June 2nd, 2002, 05:23 PM

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I once ran a small fleet out of supplies in a black hole system!

Ouch!
There are some things I'm sure we've all done; Forgetting to change research areas, Forgetting to cloak or uncloak a ship, Forgetting to turn off repeat build (I'm bad for this one!

), ect.

Nodachi

Gryphin · #5 June 2nd, 2002, 06:14 PM

In the game I'm playing now I put shield skipping weapons on a Boarding Ship. It took me 3 times to figure out why the ships they captured were in ruins.

I had not learned anything about drones. I figured they were just simple missiles. Then I lost 3 BattleCruisers to 3 drones and could not figure it. Run Combat Replay. Look at makeup. oops. 300 shields and 600 hit points. Ouch.
"We live and learn or we crash and burn"
I just feel for the crews of those ships and their loved ones.

Let us not forget the "One O'clock in the morning mistake", Colonizing a planet with no people. come on you vetrans, admit to it.

[ June 02, 2002, 17:14: Message edited by: The High Gryphin ]

Spoo · #6 June 2nd, 2002, 06:32 PM

How about choosing "surrender" instead of "demand surrender"...

Gryphin · #7 June 2nd, 2002, 07:40 PM

um Spoo, what time of the morning was it and how long had you been playing? I feel the time of morning is my worst enemy. That and my sweethearts siren song.