AI advantage as Warpin?

posted on September 23rd, 2011, 8:52 pm

A thought struck me very hard in my forehead:

Even though SP is not the focus of FO, I'd like to suggest altering the buildcost advantage to a free warpin of AI-vessels (regardless of faction) with a cooldown as it would add flair while increasing buildtime/buildcost to normal levels. I'm not suggesting Warpin for all player factions.

Would that be doable and attractive? Wait, that sound to sexy ... you get my point?

posted on September 23rd, 2011, 9:22 pm

Even though SP is not the focus of FO

yathink ?

Would that be doable and attractive? Wait, that sound to sexy ... you get my point?

Nope.

posted on September 26th, 2011, 3:58 pm

No, but Optec does on various occasions. I thought it would fit better with the setting than turbo-boost-construction, at least for ships.

posted on September 26th, 2011, 5:11 pm

To'kra, that was the least constructive post I have ever seen in my life. If you have something positive to say it, if you have something negative to say, don't say it, it won't help. If you totally ignore the topic and reply with 2 to 3 words about nothing and add loads of spaces so your post takes up a lot of room, then that just feels like attention seeking to me.

I'm not sure I fully understand, but are you suggesting that the AI has the same resources as a human player, but gets a free warpin ever so often to stay competitive? If so it's an intriging idea, but I unfortunately don't think it will help The AI is scripted in such a way that while that may be possible, the just wouldn't use the ships effectively enough and once they were gone they would be worse than the easiest difficulty that exists at the moment.

posted on September 26th, 2011, 9:21 pm

Thanks Mayhem. Actually I thought of it rather as an cosmetic change. Whether the AI insta-builds ships or warps them in doesn't make much of a difference and wouldn't improve (in the sense of making it more intelligent) the AI at all ... but just would help with being so ... cheated as a human player. It would more feel like the AI actually getting reinforcements because of something story-bla-bla