Nerfed empires

[PvK]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
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Hmm, these are nice ideas PvK, assuming you can actually be patient enough to bear with the ministers. (Would it be taken as being amiss if the brillant Fleet Command accused all the ministers of incompetency and sheer silliness?)

The enemy is 100% under AI minister control, so you can't be too upset at your own ministers. Mainly one just ignores most of what they do. Playing this way has led to some suggestions that have become AI improvements in the patches. One of the worst used to be the scrap minister, who would destroy fully-trained top-of-the-line ships (fortunately, only those under under AI minister control) when out of resources.

The most annoying AI minister when playing fleet commander, IMO, is the resupply minister, who sends all ships and fleets to a depot when they approach 50% supply, even if they are near a depot, and even if they are not marked for minister control . Solution is to bring a tanker along.

Still, it's very fun and is of course massively faster to play when the AI is running most of your empire for you.

PvK