ai difficulty vs ai bonus |
Hi, i was just wondering what the easy/medium/hard ai setting really does
the ai bonus i pretty straight forward i think
but i just keep wondering what the difficulty setting does, because i 'think' there is just one ai script?
also what game settings do you suppose works best for balance and irm mod?
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I'm not sure how the difficulty level is achieved. In SE:IV, it would reduce the number of ministers the AI could use, but I don't see any such mechanism in SE:V - I'd just keep it to high.
I'd recommend at least a low bonus (1.5x production/construction) for the AI - this gives them a little kick in the pants to make up for a player's ability to really plan ahead etc. A high bonus (5x production/construction) would be more of a challenge.
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ahh now that definatly does explain how some empires ive been facing have been able to churn out more colony ships than ive been able to 
cheers
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I recommend 500,000 points to start for the Balance Mod, it allows the AIs to have their racial traits from the start.
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The difficulty setting could be coded into the AI, with look ahead, memory, and analysing enemy designs determined by the AI level.
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So Kwok, your're recommending taking 500,000 of starting tech. Does this mean giving the AI those points and not taking any tech for yourself? I guess I don't understand the "cowering in the corner" coments... I have the computer set on High and max bonuse everytime, and I'm also now giving it a large tech bonus to start with... I don't mean to be tooting my own horn here, I'm just saying the Ai isn't very fearful yet. (I'm playing Balance mod 1.06, does the newest version have an Ai to fear?)
SEV, more than a feeling.
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The latest v1.07 and v1.08 feature new AI designs, more focused weapons research, and better fleet management, so in that respect it should be much more improve than v1.06.
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Yay, i never really tried balance mod becasue when i tried to start the game it gave me a list of errors!!!
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You probably didn't extract it to the right location. It should be unzipped directly to the GameTypes folder. It will create its own folder there. See the link below for an image of the proper folder structure.
http://www.captainkwok.net/balancemodhelp.php
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aye i've been curious about this too, tho i dont quite get the bonus tho, ive been thinking about jacking both up to high and cowering in a corner