SO! The new build came out today and like I usually do, I played an FFA with some normal AI on a multi-planet spawn system. All was well and fun, but holy crap, has the AI gotten stupider?!? Of the 5 AI in the game, only one was even a minor threat. The other 4, however... One died before I got to it (and according to the replay was doing terribly anyway), one flew its commander right into my army via Astraeus, one was planet smashed by me to end the game (and wasn't really doing that well). And then there's this *******, who was all alone on a planet and just decided to stop instead of becoming a crazy superpower. I made it a point to ignore him just to see if he'd ever expand, but he didn't. One SXX later and he was a pile of ash. Back when multi-planet starts first came out, a normal AI getting a planet to himself was nearly IMPOSSIBLE to defeat without an asteroid! But now they derp out like this.
Take it easy dude, the game is not done and some system are not in play yet. Thing will get better, they break a think and gets repaired have patience ^^
I wasn't actually angry, just kinda baffled. This is now the third time I've seen the AI freak out and stop expanding.
The things the AI has to cope with in this game are baffling. Getting the AI to respond to all this in a reasonable manner is probably filling Sorian's agenda for 8 work-hours per day for 5 days per week, week after week
Well in the PTE Sorian had said the AI is derpy and not ready for the changes. Considering there are no changes since the last PTE version I would assume the AI still needs improvements to catch up to this patch.
