What a beautiful sight....

pathfinder · #1 March 8th, 2001, 12:28 AM

hmm, guess I am erm..lucky? ever since the patch before 1.19 I have had the Ai (inconsistently) use multiple ship fleets on me. and yes they would park a fleet over my planets (refueling I gues) but they would about 40% of the tiem glass that world if it was declared when they were over it. The EEE, even back then, almost always had huge fleets (as many as 75 one time) come to spank ol' pathy

raynor · #2 March 8th, 2001, 01:31 AM

The TDM ModPack comes with the Xi'Chung Expert EMP file. IMHO, this is the best race I have ever seen. I was rampaging through the galaxy until I came upon one of the Xi'Chung planets. Whew! Very, very nasty medium weapon platform. That one planet stopped by fleet dead.

I've been lucky so far, though. Their fleet of 41 ships is one system over engaging the Earth Alliance. So far, I've been lucky and haven't had to engage their fleet yet. Soon, though...

Oh, did I mention that I switched the #1 player to human control to see what he's putting on his ships? Cloaking Device 3!!!

I love this game! And thank you very much to the creator of the Xi'Chung! Oops, gotta go. That game is at home, and I'm still at work.

doctorcheese · #3 March 8th, 2001, 02:34 AM

Have you folks seen that the standard races within the game have the same level of tenacity and fleet-building that these custom races have? I'm eager to download the new patch, plus identify the right mods, to run the game with the standard races (which are quite a few I must add with delight) before I run any custom races.

Thanks for any insight!
dr

Lerchey · #4 March 8th, 2001, 04:04 AM

I've been beta-ing the pre-patch stuff for a few weeks. The Cue Cappa *regularly* send in fleets of 20+ ships, as do the Eee Consortium.

And when I saw a single Eee DN hanging out by itself I thought I'd be trick and hit it with a fleet of 18 pretty high tech DSs. 2 of my DSs escaped, 16 died, and I didn't even get through it's shields.

I think the AI is doing pretty well these days, though I purposefully hamper myself by NOT allowing tactical combat. After all, it IS a strategic game.

John

pathfinder · #5 March 8th, 2001, 04:52 AM

yup, the EEE all along (for me) have been sending BIG fleets to hurt me

Will · #6 March 8th, 2001, 05:20 AM

In my current game I've seen plenty of large AI fleets. Too bad they were mostly Cue Cappa. I had a nice time using a single ship captured via Crew Insurrection to capture the two front ships in the fleet, then use the Alleigence Converters on them to convert the next two closest ships, then used those to capture... on and on. I had a single captured dreadnaught capture a fleet of 20 dreadnaughts. That is sad

Other than that, the AI has been kinda sorta ok with sending fleets at me (still can't seem to figure out how to send large fleets through a warp point to kill my lone fighter group there... but that was over 50 turns ago