A comment on Borg AI and AI in general.....

posted on March 25th, 2009, 7:14 pm

Sadly, from what I can tell, the Armada 2 core AI is purely a relic from the days of 'send ship here.  Autofire & pursue.  To regulate difficulty, there will be 3 levels of cheating.  Mostly the same rules as players, medium cheating, and hard to overcome cheating.'

[Meglith]

posted on March 25th, 2009, 7:24 pm

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Sadly, from what I can tell, the Armada 2 core AI is purely a relic from the days of 'send ship here.  Autofire & pursue.  To regulate difficulty, there will be 3 levels of cheating.  Mostly the same rules as players, medium cheating, and hard to overcome cheating.'

ACH! Dude that sucks. I've been suspecting that might be the truth about the AI, but been hoping it wasn't.


My experience is the same as what most people wrote on this thread. Klingons are almost always the lame-ducks, though AI Federation seems even worse. I love playing as the Feds, but playing against them is not very exciting. The Dominion and Romulans are interesting because of fleet-size, though unimaginative in how they fight. Still, if i lose AI games, it's usually to one of them (assuming the Borg don't swamp over the map).


What i'd like to see for AI, also, is different Avatars chosen. The Dominion always goes with the Breen; Feds always with the defensive Admiral, and so on.

posted on March 25th, 2009, 8:03 pm

Don't forget that the AI doesn't actually use the strengths of their avatar.  It plays very aggressively as Mayson, when it could and probably should focus on a blend of expansion and flooding space with those torpedo turrets with a moderate ship backup until such point as trying to break the base's defenses would destroy most fleets, even Borg.  Then switch to severe aggression with the entire buildup of ships that have been collecting slowly behind the growing walls of turrets.

With the AI's build-time reduction, and build-cost reduction, it could likely have 3 Torp Turrets placed in the space of time it took you to build a Sabre, and for less resources.

posted on March 29th, 2009, 3:17 am

Not always, the Romulans only knew the Enterprise could see them because they moved away when the Warbird faked a collision. They only started to suspect Enterprise could see them because it were around too long.

They only knew the ship was around too long and started a test, not that the ship could detect them.

yeah, but when i blow a cople of them up I would expect them to react, decloak and attack. instead they just sit there and enjoy getting blown up one by one.

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on March 29th, 2009, 3:25 am

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Yeah... the AI really isn't all that great. Cbosdell and I took out a Hard Klingon, Borg, and Dominion (all allied). He was Borg, I was Klingon... I only used one ship type and ONE shipyard... and we managed to annihilate them with hardly a scratch. Sad 

posted on March 29th, 2009, 6:05 am

yeah, but when i blow a cople of them up I would expect them to react, decloak and attack. instead they just sit there and enjoy getting blown up one by one.

Sounds like my AI allies when I'm dying.

posted on March 29th, 2009, 4:34 pm

Everytime I play a single player RTS I trouble myself with the countless families short a member after my bloody victories. Especially empire total war .

I recommend you play Borg. 

posted on March 29th, 2009, 5:07 pm

Or Dominion.