AI War Beta 6.026-6.027 "The Guard Before The Storm" Released!

[chemical_art]

Max guardians annoy me to the point of cheating

[Kahuna]

spirecraft jumpships are super overpowered

That's why people with self respect and control don't use them

[Marmu23]

Just want to say, you might wanna consider re-adding deepstrike spawns to lazy AI.

It's lazy, that's the point   The only reason that toggle exists is that there are players that prefer not having to deal with various changes we've made specifically to force the player away from low AIP.  That forcing is necessary for balance in most scenarios, but some players prefer having the choice to play it unbalanced, or with "alternate" balance (via jacking up the difficulty some other way, etc).

So yea, you can run roughshod over a lazy AI if you cheese it in those specific ways, that's fine.  If you're looking for more challenge, I'm happy to suggest some additional options you could turn on

 Ummm for me i though i`d like the option because i dont like the raising of the aip floor by shooting core turrets, but this option made 10/10 into 7/7 sooooooooooo, i figured it was a bit much.

[keith.lamothe]

Max guardians annoy me to the point of cheating

I'm fixing it, don't worry

(I wonder if that's up there with "I'm here from the government and I'm here to help")


Just nailed the last of the target-dancing stuff I was seeing with the new individual-ship-tactics ai, so just moving on to the various high-priority items (like initial guardian population and counterattack post population); in hopes of getting some testing done tonight and releasing tomorrow morning.

[LordSloth]

Might I also suggest leaving the old "camp wormholes" behavior on for the Lazy AI?

It's not very important to me, but I will admit sending Thief-style Riot starships through a wormhole and back is incredible fun. I could probably figure out another way to do it, perhaps with cloaker starships...

[keith.lamothe]

Might I also suggest leaving the old "camp wormholes" behavior on for the Lazy AI?

Oh, good idea, quite appropriate

[Marmu23]

spirecraft jumpships are super overpowered

That's why people with self respect and control don't use them

 I hadn't played with spirecraft in a long time and had forgotten about them. Then I turned them on and had a nasty AI homeworld to deal with. Then I built a couple of them. And then I teleported fleets of starships and suddenly the core turrets vanished.

 Poor little AI.

[Faulty Logic]

spirecraft jumpships are super overpowered

That's why people with self respect and control don't use them

Are you intentionally trying to annoy people?

[keith.lamothe]

Nah, he has far too much self respect and control for that.

[Mánagarmr]

Are you intentionally trying to annoy people?

Haven't you figured that out by now? He's antagonistic and snarky by design.

[keith.lamothe]

By design?  Sounds like an AI type.

"Super Cat AI"

[Kahuna]

lol'd hahahahah funny stuff

[chemical_art]

Were those suggested golem.build rates ok?

[keith.lamothe]

Were those suggested golem.build rates ok?

Yep, that's on my list too, just dealing with the more serious stuff first.  Currently testing the guardian initial-seed, etc changes.

[Kahuna]

Sorry Faulty Logic but.. as Force says here..
http://youtu.be/Josp2kNfHsM?t=4m20s
..every community has it's own "Idra". Seems like I'm the "Idra" of AI War. Well not really that bad but yeah.