SE5 AI is pathetic

Devnullicus · #1 October 15th, 2006, 03:21 PM

I decided to see just how badly the SE5 AI needed work by going on an all-out crusade to crush them. No mercy, no quarter. This was in the demo, but from what I hear, SE5 Release 1.0 is the same.

Well, it took me 93 turns (most of which was spent just finding them since they rarely expanded out of their home systems!). None of them even came close to putting up a fight. They were absolutely pathetic.

Hmmm, guess I'll be busy modding if I want an even halfway interesting game

I really hope the first patch and some of the early mods improve this...a LOT.

ttomm46 · #2 October 15th, 2006, 03:28 PM

That's enough for me to hold off buying for awhile..

AAshbery76 · #3 October 15th, 2006, 03:54 PM

My view is MM didn't have time to work on the A.I.There are a ton of missing features still to be linked up.

Tim_Ward · #4 October 15th, 2006, 04:04 PM

It's better to leave out features and work on the AI, in my opinion. There's no point in a strategy game where you can win with any strategy.

Sure, it can be fixed with mods. How many people that buy the game will come online and download mods?

Elsemeravin · #5 October 15th, 2006, 04:07 PM

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Tim_Ward said:
How many people that buy the game will come online and download mods?

99% of the clever ones ?

Noble713 · #6 October 15th, 2006, 04:39 PM

The ones capable enough to realize the AI sucks are also probably capable enough to download mods to fix it.