Hardpoints would prevent the player from designing over-powering ships. Hardpoints (and I like everyone else do not really like this idea). In other words, at each ship type, the AI needs to be able to adapt and build ships that match the fire power and defense of the players designs.Ģ. That takes away the biggest player advantage, the ability to build ships that completely over power the AI. So if I design an escort with 4 guns, 4 shields, and a torpedo.the AI will mimic or even copy the design. The biggest balancer would be for the AI to build ship designs that equal what the player designs. Now that being said, the AI in DW isn't perfect, but I do have a few suggestions that would help balance it out.ġ. And at least with DW I don't find myself cussing at the screen because of some cheat the AI gets to use that is totally unfair and unbeatable.
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Elliotg hasn't perfected it yet, but the AI has gotten a bit better with every patch and expansion. Just examples, the list in infinately long.ĭW takes the approach of trying to make the AI behave sanely.
Since the AI is only going to do what it is told, and keep trying it even though it has failed the previous 6000 times it tried most developers opt to make the AI more powerful with hard-coded cheats.Īnd how do other games let their AIs cheat?Ĥ. Most developers overcome the Artificial Insanity by letting the AI cheat. Yep, that describes a game's AI perfectly. Insanity is to repeat a process over and over expecting a different result. Definitely.ĪI.Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Insanity. There is also no reason you can't avoid tech trading/selling and all found ships can immediately be blown up.Ĭan someone win that type of game? Possibly. Much more can be done but these I think are essential for hardest. they should start with your homeworld as HARSH and starting technology, and other empires at tech level 7 and excellent homeworlds. Please make an Ultra-Hard difficulty for the expansion. but If you have the possibilities to use this functions you should use it. If you play with autotax and autodesign then the game gets a little bit harder. Or you just invade colononies without declaring war. The balance is destroyed if you found capital ships. as I showed in my AAR the hardest possible start conditions cant stop a player with some experience.