lack of ai

posted on July 25th, 2009, 9:58 pm

hey all while playing a game earlier i noticed that one of the ai teams the borg was doing nothing but spamming constructors and trying to get them into my base without any success anyway after a while i noticed that some of the other teams had attacked and crippled the borg base although they still had 2 proccessing stations with miners an assimilation matrix and a transmission matrix but did they even try and rebuild no they just carried on with the great tactic of build constructor send it to me i destroy it they try again lol this needs to be sorted as quite often you get the ai keep sending constructors to my base and yes its nice to get the mixed tech yards from them but its just dumb as they just waste resources on these ships which get destroyed or captured everytime and they never lern to stop even when their base gets battered as i saw earlier

posted on July 26th, 2009, 11:19 am

this has to do with the way the ai works.
they have a build list, which tells them what to build, how often and how to use it.
if they send constructors it could be the following:The borg ai send its assemblynodes often all over the map to themoon pairs, to build resource nodes. but if you are there, the constructor dies. the ai sees this and rebuilds the constructor, and sends it again at you. there is at his time nothing to do against this.

just for record:which map did you use? and with how many players?

posted on July 27th, 2009, 11:16 pm

the map i was playing was nirvana 2 7 merciless ai i notice that other teams use the same tactic but give up after a while whereas in this case the borg just kept on and didnt even attempt to rebuild

posted on July 28th, 2009, 7:46 am

that maybe meant, that the borg had no place to expand and s was caught in a loop where he wanted to try to expand to the most likely third moon pair.

posted on July 28th, 2009, 8:22 am

Yeah the AI does tend to get caught up in flukes like that once in awhile, though I've noticed it's almost always only with the Borg. The Borg also have lots of issues when playing with Unlimited Resources or free tech on for some reason. Their AI will build nothing but a small fleet of scout cubes and nothing else.

posted on July 28th, 2009, 6:44 pm

if you play with normal or double resources the borg normally build huge fleets with loads of cubes i watched the borg dominate everyone destroying over 6000 ships lol so i just sent about 60 sovs straight to their base and took them out b4 they came after me it was quite funny watching hundreds of ships fighting it out but no matter how well it seemed they were doing in fighting off the borg more and more cubes were coming it really was a case of resistence is futile

posted on August 9th, 2009, 12:38 am

Hey I fugured out a way sort of around this 

set resorces to double then go to advanced set AI build costs to as hard as they will go (sounds crazy but bear with me!) then set global build costs as low as they go and then apply the changes. you will now notice that the global build cost multiple is 0.00 so technicaly everything is free. and by setting the AI cost as hards as it gets will make the AI sort of react as if it had a ton of money. The AI should now react the same as with normal or double.

the only thing wrong with this is the AI will still want to mine resorces