The Romulans in Version 3.0

posted on November 15th, 2008, 7:49 pm

Yeah, I havent been very successful in finding any AI using cloaks, and it would be a nice suprise to humans if you could stay cloak for a long time...

Just keep some scouts along with your fleet.

posted on November 15th, 2008, 8:10 pm

More to my point was, the AI just uses the ships, not the cloaks on them. I see 'em comming, but never cloaked,  so who cares about tach scanning? AI needs to be smarter....

posted on November 15th, 2008, 8:29 pm

Speaking about the AI, does the Romulan AI still spam Battleships like it does in PR?

posted on November 15th, 2008, 8:37 pm

All races AI seem to go nuts with massive fleets. It is the only "challanging" strategy they seem to try. No cloaks, not hiding in nebulas, not finding a better attack route, no brain, just heavy-ship-club mentality...
It is definatly more fun with Multi-players...

posted on November 15th, 2008, 10:16 pm

Just keep some scouts along with your fleet. Tongue

Yeah that works if your Romulan, what about for other races? Or has that been changed in v3 too

All races AI seem to go nuts with massive fleets. It is the only "challanging" strategy they seem to try. No cloaks, not hiding in nebulas, not finding a better attack route, no brain, just heavy-ship-club mentality...
It is definatly more fun with Multi-players...

Well it is a multiplayer based mod after all Its probably hard to make AI learn strategy, if they havent been designed for that in the first place . All we can be happy about is that the AI is more challanging than in the vanilla version, though that is not saying much.
With an AI like this, its fun to try how many AI you can beat at the same time, after 2 it gets really challanging

posted on November 16th, 2008, 12:25 am

Yeah that works if your Romulan, what about for other races? Or has that been changed in v3 too

Micro management

posted on November 16th, 2008, 9:09 am

Well it is a multiplayer based mod after all Its probably hard to make AI learn strategy, if they havent been designed for that in the first place . All we can be happy about is that the AI is more challanging than in the vanilla version, though that is not saying much.
With an AI like this, its fun to try how many AI you can beat at the same time, after 2 it gets really challanging

Try vs 3 AI hard on low build cost, fast ship production. I was building ships constantly from about 10-15 shipyards constantly and still barely keeping up with how many ships they were sending at me. But I claimed victory on the basis that enough ships were built to crash my computer 

posted on November 16th, 2008, 12:05 pm

Try vs 3 AI hard on low build cost, fast ship production. I was building ships constantly from about 10-15 shipyards constantly and still barely keeping up with how many ships they were sending at me. But I claimed victory on the basis that enough ships were built to crash my computer 

Tried that with the Romulans, Klingons and Dominion. The Romulans spammed Battleships, the Dominion used a lot of small ships with a decent number of Battleships and the Klingons never build anything bigger than a K't'inga and a Frield Research (EVER!). Needless to say, after 10 minutes of fighting, only the Romulans were attacking me (and they still had a fleet that could fill the screen).

posted on November 16th, 2008, 1:08 pm

Quote from: -=B!G=-The Black Baron on November 15, 2008, 11:16:41 PM
Yeah that works if your Romulan, what about for other races? Tongue Or has that been changed in v3 too Smiley

Micro management Smiley

Yeah thats a pretty easy way to anwser that, but of course its not that easy as you make it out to be especially if a Rom player could cloak an entire base. But hey at least a Rom player can find a Rom player  While the others can fire that tac scan from their bases, maybe 1 will get lucky, so much for micro managment huh

posted on November 16th, 2008, 10:35 pm

Tried that with the Romulans, Klingons and Dominion. The Romulans spammed Battleships, the Dominion used a lot of small ships with a decent number of Battleships and the Klingons never build anything bigger than a K't'inga and a Frield Research (EVER!). Needless to say, after 10 minutes of fighting, only the Romulans were attacking me (and they still had a fleet that could fill the screen).

Heh, yeah in mine all 3 races were spamming battleships, turns out it actually didn't kill my computer because I had the Admiral's Log saved - 2 of them had built over 2000 ships and one of them had built over 3000, I was somewhere in between I think but had more kills and fewer losses