Crazy Hard AI Hard

posted on January 18th, 2009, 7:20 am

so Lumpy and I have been playing and trying to defeat thge AI hard, 2v1. we have noticed theat the Ai goes into full produdction before it has any mining stations. more over tey produce ships t an ungodly rate. we have also noticed that the ai has become substatnualy more, well retarded wont work because it comesfast, so id say mentally challanged, sometm balling pinto a cluster of non rsponcive ships. Romulans for example decided that open space was a more valid target than the mining station next to it. is it just me and lumpy and Cbossdell, or is th ai buggy and cheating.

I will not spout what I think an AI should be, but i know what an AI should not do.

posted on January 18th, 2009, 7:31 am

Me and BigAndy (I think) were attacked by a massive Dominion fleet that stopped (like they were all at Green alert) at the edge of my base after destroying most of my fleet. After having my very remaining few ships destroy a good deal of Battleships, the AI suddenly turned away from my base and my ally 9the other human player got the whole armada at once.

At the end of the game, there was one shipyard left with the Dominion fleet sat just out of sensor range before they finished it (ignoring the 2-3 ships built for a while).

Plus, I noticed a number of large groups before the ceasefire even ended.

posted on January 18th, 2009, 9:33 am

Yep the hard-ai is ment to be a challange. It might be reduced a bit in the next patch. We are still working on the AI (basically we are still using the standard Armada2 AI), so expect more improvements in the future

posted on January 18th, 2009, 11:52 am

I've seen a large Dominion fleet get distracted by an Akira. One small destroyer was transporting troops on one of my damaged Akiras and the whole fleet sat in wait doing nothing.

I attacked the fleet and it did not fight back until I destroyed my own Akira (saving it falling into enemy hands)

[Tyler]

posted on January 18th, 2009, 11:59 am

Last edited by Tyler on January 18th, 2009, 12:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.

When the stopped atacking me, they didn't attack or board anything. Eventually the left my base, quietly, and went straight to my ally.

Not that I'm comlaining that the AI attacked the other human player or anything, though it is a bit insulting to be ignored like that.

posted on January 22nd, 2009, 4:53 am

I had an entire huge borg fleet destroy my entire base and all but one ship then just stop... I had a off race construction ship left...

posted on February 10th, 2009, 2:57 pm

does anyone know what a hard AI pays for ships ?

Sometimes i think they produces their ships for free.
Last game with a friend.

He played dominion and i played borg.
The summary at the end was really fuzzy...my friend  gathered 1/3 more dil and tri than the federation AI but it was able to built 960 ships....390 Battleships. He just had something about 300 ships and spended all his money.

posted on February 10th, 2009, 3:24 pm

The AI does use resources, even in stock so it would in FO. A few times, I moved the mouse over one of the AI's yards and it had a ship in the list but was not building it. Just like a shortage of whats needed.