For Backers Only: AI building stuff

I'm back! Been too long, weeks without my desktop! Can't play PA on my laptop. Installing mods and then i'm going to play and hope the AI doesn't beat my ***! I have always beaten the AI before but that was back in alpha and early beta!

Play it on a large lava planet. AI performs best on lava planets I find. Moons good to but those are boring.

Can still be vulnerable to an early ant/leveler push but has vast improvement against pelter/holkin/catapult creep.

Getting annoyingly good at raiding with bots and bombers.

Just seen great AI vs AI battle until "Platoon Manager" start eating 610-650 msec.

Platoon manager?! Neural networks?!

Is it surprise for you? I think it's acknowledged fact.

Obviously they were going to be in, but I didn't realize that they were on public builds yet.

I figured something like that would be inserted with a lot more pomp and circumstance.

Then again, it may just be a quick and dirty script sorian threw in not worthy of mention, with proper NN coming later.

will the AI evnconly beable to like build the V rockest and throw a planet into the main one? (sorry for my spelling...)

I would assume yes. Its just like naval though, work in progress.

Devs confirmed that the AI did this in a game

interesting, I usually beat the AI or get nuked to death before the game gets that far (usually the former but sometimes the latter)

Interesting. So far I found the AI pretty dull. It never changes strategy and in the long run is very predictable. I almost *feel* when is going to launch a nuke and lately I learned to not let myself find unprepared.

Yes. I have done team army games with people against the AI and said 'there's a nuke coming' a few minutes before it flies into range. I'm not sure what gives you that prediction ability. But I was never wrong.

It's a bit more active with orbital in 59602

Dunno. Our subconscious is powerful. I discovered that listening to it is usually a good idea. Use the Force, StormingKiwi, use the Force!

does creating the AI make you a sadist? or does us being willing to play against it make us masochists?

lol.

Is it going to start grouping fabbers?

And mobile anti-air sucks

It does stop you abusing the AI by harassing with scouts/bombers though.