Oh cool, sandbox mode.

Most of you probably noticed, but just in case yeah, AI has a new difficulty, sandbox difficulty.
Not sure if the game continues post AI death though.

It's a re-adding of how it used to be.

The economy is set to -1, so that means the AI can't build anything.

So it allows you to play a normal game, but the AI can't build. That's all.

Actually it sets the factor to 0, not to -1

The game doesn't continue after AI is destroyed.

Ah, aw well.

i hope they add a debug mode in to spawn various units to test against and to control one or more ai's ..... loved that in supcom fa

Then the AI can build stuff. If you set it to 0, the AI can build stuff – just very very slowly. If you set it to -1, then the AI can't ever finish anything.

So, they should change that.

At 0 it has no income, so it cannot build.
Yesterday (or friday?) I had it set to 0.01 because of the 0-bug and even with that the AI basically never build more than 1 mex, probably from it's initial storage.

Nice add, was just looking for econ adjustment option. That'll help do some debug testing and fun shots!

There's this factory in the game files called an 'avatar' factory that looks like a build-all debugging factory. There's an avatar commander too I think. I wonder if we can build them somehow in an AI game to mess around with.

That's the debugging quick builder the developers use in dev mode I think.
Unlocking that thing for us would be kinda cool for quick tests indeed.

I've played against AI with the economic slider set to 0, and after an hour it had a few buildings.

Already exists, just not accessible to normal players. The game server has to be in a special mode the servers you can play on can't be set to.