Make them Adapt!

[Optec]

posted on September 16th, 2009, 11:40 am

Last edited by Optec on September 16th, 2009, 11:43 am, edited 1 time in total.

ehm, since when is an AI about to be balanced? you might have missed, 1337_64M3R, that the merciless ai already cheats.. making an ai that is as good as an human without cheating is something no game got till now, cause the problem is equivalent to construction artificial intelligence, which is not possible at the moment
The AI - as in all games - is ment to be interessting to play against, and therefore it has to field all vessels, and not just a few that fit their strategy. Think of missions or the like. In many campaigns an AI will start with a fully-operational base while you jump around with a single constructor. Thats not "fair" either We are even thinking about pure-AI vessels just for the purpose of making it more fun to play against it - or to capture that stuff

Sadly i cant find a "rightclick - new - add cool ai with cool anme" option, sorry.
We have some ideas for a more adaptive and intelligence AI that might even be usable without giving her cheating.. but thats something for the future. so far i'm happy with giving the ai bonuses like new ships, and i think that will get us a bit of a "scenario character" that should be fun

posted on September 16th, 2009, 12:23 pm

Okay.... so the AI already cheats. But there should be some way how to gain AI only ships. Is it possible to put in a cheat like "Alltech" or "Othertree" that switches your tech tree? Besides, should I be worried about this feature of AI only ships? I'd be fine with one or two AI only warp-ins, but if them ships are comming from yards... I'm going to have my eyes on the project...

But... if I see high quality ships that are AI only... be afraid!

posted on September 16th, 2009, 12:59 pm

all new vessels will be of the same, higher quality of the reent 3.0 content. old beta2 content is going to be replaced patch by patch.
AI vessels might come along with the NP implementation, thats not yet decided, its just an idea

posted on September 16th, 2009, 10:04 pm

Wow Optec, a reason for me to actually start playing against the AI more frequently  

posted on September 16th, 2009, 10:05 pm

all new vessels will be of the same, higher quality of the reent 3.0 content. old beta2 content is going to be replaced patch by patch.
AI vessels might come along with the NP implementation, thats not yet decided, its just an idea

That means the FO stock Excelsior will be back too, right?

posted on September 17th, 2009, 9:06 am

the stock Excelsior? both the Excelsior and the Excelsior-II are already available. Sorry i miss your question

posted on September 17th, 2009, 10:42 am

the stock Excelsior?

I think he eans the 3 deflectored one from beta1- PR3.0  .

posted on September 17th, 2009, 10:55 am

ahh, i see. yea why not, those oldies could perhaps be something funny