Love playing against computer as it would usually give me a little time to learn... but every time I play... AI nukes me in approx. 10-12 minutes. Is there going to be a slider adjustment for AI difficulty or an option to limit end game weapons? Just curious. Its challenging and I am getting a little quicker each time... but frustrating also. Anyone else?
The AI seems to have two plans: A) Spam bombers/fighters and eventually nuke you or B) Spam bots and nuke you faster. I'm sure in the future we'll get something better, but for now AI Is A Crapshoot .
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There will be sliders for the AI in the future. AI still needs LOTS of work. In the meantime, spam up anti nukes. :-/
I've never really had a problem with the AI nuking me, I can always get up anti-nuke before they can nuke me, or get my commander safely off-planet. Then again, my first practice rounds were against an equally bad human player and the AI was dumber as well. It does depend somewhat on the planet as well. AI seem to have a limited expansion range so if you are playing on a lava with a **** ton of metal concentrated around their start area, expect nukes much faster. Personally I like playing on tropicals with enough water to make naval a viable choice, but still have enough land access to bring bots/tanks into play.
AI won't build the nukes for a long time if the bots don't do any damage. Play on naval planets and they'll be paralyzed.
I've never had the AI nuke me, ever. Even in games that last 45 minutes to an hour, all the AI will do is send bombers to me. It happened to me once that they sent bots to attack me, but even that turned into bombers after a while. Of course, the AI is still far from being complete, so I'm not going to complain much about it.
Play with 9 AI at once - the AI seems to have a random set of behaviors. There are some times when it is less aggressive than others. I often have it so that there are less than 4 AI left in the game, and they all have well developed bases and are busy nuking each other/making exclusion zones with catapults/artillery, etc. This is based on observation. It could just be that sometimes it glitches out and doesn't do anything
Yeah, I might try doing that. I played a game with 3 AI the other day, and they ended up fighting each other, but I never saw any hints of nukes at all throughout the hour-long game. Perhaps I've just been unlucky though, who knows? I'll try it again when I have the time.
