AI War II thoughts?

[narb79]

Not too deep in about 30 hours.  I like it see no reason to go back to ai war classic.

I think if people had the option to build a custom starting fleet each game similar to picking a starting ship in the first game, it might ease pain of not getting to build your ships direct. 

-Thoughts?

[Strategic Sage]

The intention of the idea is good, but I don't think it would really help.  What I've seen from those who want this indicates that they are probably people who like micromanagement for it's own sake, even absent any actual meaningful choice being attached to it.  After all, with the options you have in game setup AI War 2 gives the player demonstrably more choice in their starting force than they had in Classic.  You could default shipbuilding to off and then they wouldn't like the fact that the ships are bound to fleets, which is where I think the real problem is in the first place.  They just don't like the fleet system - which is fine, I used to think similarly about games.  Most of that minority just isn't going to 'get' AI War II IMO.  They truly are better off playing Classic (which is still great!). 

[BadgerBadger]

If you're willing to write a little XML you can already define your own starting fleet.

[narb79]

Is there a link in the modding section to guide a bit? Would not mind messing around a bit

[Draco18s]

I have a bit of nostalgia for AIWC, particularly the last of the 3.8.x releases (Unity's been great, don't get me wrong, there's just something about some of the mechanics that shifted to 4.0 that I feel wistful for the Old Ways), but in general, yes, the new game is fantastic.

I definitely want to get in to the code at some point and do some modding (more galaxy types, maybe some AI stuff), but I need to find the time first.

[narb79]

I feel the last patch gave more variety to the ship types and having custom fleets no longer needed, unless players feel they need to choose the first 5 slots with ships of their choice .