Ok, I'm gonna admit. I really really suck at this game, but I still enjoy it. I have noticed that there isn't an easy difficulty for A.I.s that could help train those who are very low level with RTS games like I am. If there was, it would help me get better. Don't get me wrong. I really love this game.
Easy in where, Galactic war or Multiplayer? Currently the Galactic War AI on Normal sucks, but in the Multiplayer there should be an Easy AI option
The normal AI is actually quite easy. Try playing a few rounds of Galactic War with the normal AI - somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that one is even easier than the MP normal AI? And, again I might be wrong here, but I think ALL the AI's (for their respective modes, i.e. GW/MP) are actually using the same "logic", it's just that the harder ones are given economy boosts. I would like something like a sandbox mode. There are a bunch of late-game structures I've never gotten to try out because I either blow the AI away before the game progresses that far, or it comes down to a big lag fest.
There used to be an easy, but now difficulties are more personality-based. If you want to play against what used to be easy mode, in the pre-game lobby change the number near the AI's name to "0.5", that'll half his economic scaling and make the game's old "easy mode". Welcome to the community :]
Thanks all. Yes this is my first time playing the game and I was talking about the multiplayer A.I. I will try and lower the handicapped economy and see if that doesn't help.
Yeah I'd love a sandbox mode too ! That would be a great help so I could see how all the different units behave and how each building upgrades and whatnot.
Try the Galactic War. It's easier. Also, check out PA Matches' tutorials section. That'll help you out.
As I said above, you can lower the AI eco scale to 0, that activates a pseudo sandbox mode (the AI can't build and won't move)
Frankly for the Ai to be essayer it would have to go back a number of builds where all it did was turtle and chuck nukes at you for giggles.
It still kinda does that, once it gets to other planets it just kinda makes your life annoying by launching nukes.
I think there comes a stage where you learn to beat the AI since it follows a set of tactics at the moment which as far as i can tell is sending in bots early for hit and run attacks to weaken you before throwing some t2 at you and nukes. The AI is getting stronger though, Sorian is a brilliant programmer, and not relying on handicaps.
The AI has still some severe limitations: It knows NOTHING about large scale interplanetary assaults. It will cap it's individual platoon as 20-30 units at most. So... If you want to go really easy, then just play in a 2-planet system. The AI will try to send individual transporters from time to time, but apart from that, nothing is going to happen while you can try all the nice things.
