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Offline EaglePryde

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About AI WAR
« on: April 30, 2010, 06:54:19 am »
Bought it together with a friend yesterday with the Expansion and....I LOVE IT  ;D

Browsed through steam for such a game that has co-op. Not many space strategy or simple 4x games have a good co-op AND a good AI ANNND..som many nice possibilities.

AI War is really so much what i was looking for and i got addicted from the very start..and after reading how good the AI should be (normally everyone says that about their game)...and after what i have read from the players that have posted how good the AI was and what it had done to them...i knew i had to have this game  ;D And it's really worth the price..even more imho.

Great going on the game AND finally it is a game where it resyncs alone...that's also a point where i always thought it would have been needed for multiplayer game...i really love every bit of this game. Finally someone on this planet used his brain when creating a game  ;D

Many thanks for making this game and supporting at this good..keep up the good work  ;D

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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2010, 07:13:32 am »
Glad you like it :)

I was also rather impressed when I came across this last June... got sucked in, you might say ;)
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2010, 09:05:42 am »
Many thanks! Indeed, glad you're enjoying it. :)
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2010, 09:17:47 am »
have you got the expansion? its a must have if you get into the game, so much more bling ;D

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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2010, 09:31:51 am »
By the sounds of his original post, it looks like it. If you're enjoying this expansion, I hope you're looking forward to the next. It should be a similar boost in content to the current expansion. I can't wait to be introduced to an abundance of brand-new ships and unexpected experiences again, myself. :)
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2010, 09:37:04 am »
I can't wait to be introduced to an abundance of brand-new ships and unexpected experiences again, myself. :)
"Unexpected experiences" like "Ho, hum, another asteroid belt... wait, what?  The asteroids are moving towards me?  In formation?!"

I've got to get back at you for those Tidalis puzzles somehow ;D
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2010, 10:04:51 am »
!  What!?!?

That is so wrong..... I like!

(Keith, keep leaking details, we don't mind!)


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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2010, 10:09:26 am »
Well, just because I want to do something doesn't mean it will be added ;)

But "weather" is a fairly high-profile item for the next expansion, as I think Chris has said various places, and asteroid belts were mentioned as a possibility.

Asteroid Belt + Devious Programmer = ?
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2010, 10:12:45 am »
Keith, I have a feeling that you'll get to do a number of the "fun crazy" things you want to do, especially if you're fulltime by then.  Last expansion we did, I was the only programmer, and Phil was the only artist, and that was just a nightmare rush for me in particular to get that done in 3 months.  But with you added on, and potentially having another artist on board by then that I'm talking to (former colleague of Phil's), we might be in a position to do some really... interesting stuff... in that same sort of timeframe.  The first expansion was freaking huge even with a smaller team, so it will be interesting to see what the next one turns out like. :)
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2010, 10:16:46 am »
I can't wait to be introduced to an abundance of brand-new ships and unexpected experiences again, myself. :)
"Unexpected experiences" like "Ho, hum, another asteroid belt... wait, what?  The asteroids are moving towards me?  In formation?!"

I've got to get back at you for those Tidalis puzzles somehow ;D

Just remember: regardless of however much you hurt me in AI War, I can hurt you more in Tidalis with solvable puzzles of ludicrous complexity. ;)
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2010, 10:17:33 am »
I can't wait to be introduced to an abundance of brand-new ships and unexpected experiences again, myself. :)
"Unexpected experiences" like "Ho, hum, another asteroid belt... wait, what?  The asteroids are moving towards me?  In formation?!"

I've got to get back at you for those Tidalis puzzles somehow ;D

Just remember: regardless of however much you hurt me in AI War, I can hurt you more in Tidalis with solvable puzzles of ludicrous complexity. ;)

Believe me, as far as I'm concerned, you already do. ;)
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2010, 01:54:06 pm »
Whats tidalis?

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« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2010, 01:55:27 pm »
Don't read the news forum or our main page much, eh? ;)

http://www.arcengames.com/tidalis_features.php
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Re: About AI WAR
« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2010, 03:02:51 pm »
Whats tidalis?
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« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2010, 03:06:05 pm »
Hehe. :)
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