AI taunts

[Orelius]

Is it just me or is the AI not using its "You just failed attacking one of my planets" taunts anymore?

I used to hear stuff like: "Did you really expect that to work?" after botching an assault and losing all my ships, but I don't seem to hear that anymore despite quite often doing that.

[keith.lamothe]

It only happens if you lose a certain number of ships in the attack (I think that's scaled by unit scale, humorously enough).

Another taunt is when the AI takes out one of your command stations, are you still getting those?

There was a long period in AIW's history where some obscure bug pretty much suppressed all taunts.  It'd be pretty funny if that's happened again.  Anyone getting taunts in 5.015?

[Ranakastrasz]

I get the *lose command station* taunts, but rarely get the *failed assault* taunts.

[Orelius]

Yeah, the ones about losing the command ships are still there, but I never seem to get the failed assault one anymore.  It's odd.

[Coppermantis]

There are failed assault taunts? I went into a system with 1000 ships and every single one got creamed. If that doesn't warrant a "Failed Assault" Then I don't know what does. I still get the Command Station destroyed taunt though.

[Mazza]

I also seem to remember a taunt where if you were to EMP a planet with a friendly scout on it and the AI destroy the scout it would say, "Did you think we wouldn't see?" I haven't heard that reply since upgrading from 5.000 to 5.015 but I am unsure of the requirements for that taunt occurring. So that might just be me not testing enough. I did try with scouts that have been on planets for as short as five minute to over an hour.

I am still getting the lost command station taunt though but not the failed attack one.

[Orelius]

Appropriate mantis issue created: http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=3795

[KDR_11k]

Another taunt is when the AI takes out one of your command stations, are you still getting those?

Yes but they can be pretty damn silly, e.g. when a blade spawner or something snipes the command station from across the system the AI taunts me even if its entire assault force gets utterly annihilated while only breaking some Mk I station that's easily replaced.

[zebramatt]

Another taunt is when the AI takes out one of your command stations, are you still getting those?

Yes but they can be pretty damn silly, e.g. when a blade spawner or something snipes the command station from across the system the AI taunts me even if its entire assault force gets utterly annihilated while only breaking some Mk I station that's easily replaced.

Yes although conversely, you've only destroyed a couple of the AI's nigh-infinite tide of robot ships; whereas it's actually killed people*.



*Maybe. I know our ships are unmanned, but does that include all our command stations too? Are the human military just in the home station? These are important moral questions!

[Orelius]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure that the humans reside only in the the home command stations, home command station cores, colonies, or cryogenic pods.

[Coppermantis]

I always thought that command stations, starships and of course the home settlements/cities/pods were the onees that were manned, while all the rest were automated.

[KDR_11k]

Well, you never actually man the colony ships, you build them in mid-space. I guess we could argue that despite their colony name their job is more like terraforming the planet before humans can settle there.

[Cyborg]

The next expansion should add a couple taunts.

[Coppermantis]

I just got a new taunt, where the AI Said "Why do you throw your lives away?"". I'm not sure exactly what triggered this one, but I didn't see updates to AI Taunts on the changelist. It was probably one of those "Failed attack" Taunts.

[keith.lamothe]

I just got a new taunt, where the AI Said "Why do you throw your lives away?"". I'm not sure exactly what triggered this one, but I didn't see updates to AI Taunts on the changelist. It was probably one of those "Failed attack" Taunts.

It is indeed one of those.  And I didn't fix it and I don't think Chris did.  The bug may be that the threshold is unexpectedly high, etc.