This AI is awesome.

[Faulty Logic]

The AI spawned a warp gate guardian in my gate-raided cluster of AI planets right before an exo-galactic strikeforce, enabling an exo group to bypass my chokepoint, destroy a zenith power generator, knocking the forcefields of my chokepoint out, enabling the 10000-ship cpa to kill me.

[Hearteater]

Or as the AI calls it, Tuesday.

[Faulty Logic]

"I have a Fallen Spire fleet! And a massive chokepoint! I am invincible!"

Minutes later:

You have lost
AI: How stupid do you think we are?

[Lord Of Nothing]

Yep. This AI is awesome.

I decided to try my first difficulty 9 AI recently. Grav-Driller. (With a 7 sledge hammer)
The botnet golem was nearby! So was an Artillery golem, and a cursed golem.

But that really would have been to good to be true. There's a catch: The AI's very first bonus ship pick was Zenith Bombards. I'm getting a LOT of use out of Spire Starships.

[keith.lamothe]

There's a catch: The AI's very first bonus ship pick was Zenith Bombards.

My condolences.

Welcome to the forums

[Faulty Logic]

Newbies popping up everywhere!
Welcome!

[TechSY730]

Have you noticed that when there are bugs or oversights (especially with, but not limited to, AI limitations) that allow for extremely abusive behavior, the AI is often very, VERY happy to immediately start abusing it, even if trying to maximize/minimize whatever that abuse allowed it to maximize/minimize too far wasn't an explicitly coded in behavior? (Examples to come later, maybe)


It really makes it feel like the AI very smart and is actively plotting against you.
Does it feel freaky from a developer standpoint too, where the AI you made frequently starts abusing things you never told it explicitly to use/abuse?

[Faulty Logic]

Keep in mind the Jean Dixon effect: you remember when this does happen, and forget when it fails to.

On a completely different note, threat fleets are terrifying. Within thirty seconds of me withdrawing the fleet, the TF is on the move. About a minute later, there is a smoking wreck where the command station was. They attack, target, position themselves, and even retreat with either excellent intelligence or ridiculous luck.

[keith.lamothe]

Keep in mind the Jean Dixon effect: you remember when this does happen, and forget when it fails to.

Yea.  Also, people tend to see patterns that aren't there, because intuition tells them a pattern is there.  But I suppose when something is doing an excellent job of slaughtering your entire species, a certain degree of irrational analysis is to be expected.

On a completely different note, threat fleets are terrifying. Within thirty seconds of me withdrawing the fleet, the TF is on the move. About a minute later, there is a smoking wreck where the command station was.

They left enough of the station that it was still burning?  Hmph, getting sloppy, I see.

[Wanderer]

This is all I really have to say...

[Coppermantis]

This is all I really have to say...

Haha.

I love AI War expansions because they're good. Not crazy "Couple of maps for $15" deals but a major amount of content  for a more than fair price.

[chemical_art]

I am hacking a world.

AI launches a tachyon missile.

Discover 3k special forces cloaked ships surrounded my core of ships.

[Hearteater]

Were they not attacking prior to being decloaked?  I know that's been an issue before that I don't think has ever been fixed.

[TechSY730]

Were they not attacking prior to being decloaked?  I know that's been an issue before that I don't think has ever been fixed.

Yea, cloaked AI ships are still way to hesitant to decloak and attack, even in cases where they probably would win (like this one). I sure hope this is fixed soon, it's been bugged like this for way too long.

[keith.lamothe]

I am hacking a world.

AI launches a tachyon missile.

Discover 3k special forces cloaked ships surrounded my core of ships.

Priceless.