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The Dude posted 05-08-99 01:22 PM ET
Last night I was playing through my first complete game of SMAC (I'm just learning the game right now...can we say "learning curve"?) At one point I had, I believe, Morgan down to his last two bases with hardly any units. However, every turn he kept messaging me telling me something like, "You still have time to end this outrage and surrender!" I had overwhelming military forces near his poorly defended bases, and he wants me to succumb to him!
Even when he was down to his last man, he still kept telling me that if I would bow to him, he'd lift his vendetta.
Shouldn't I have been the one asking for terms of surrender from him? As far as that goes, why are the other faction leaders allowed to make their demands first even when you initiate the contact?
This is obviously a very deep and complex game, so perhaps I have yet to figure out the interaction of different choices on my part, but it seems that opposing faction AI is a tad inconsistent.
Evk posted 05-08-99 02:00 PM ET
No, the AI is just very, very stupid. Aah, many 'tis the time my power-bar was easily double anybody elses', and the weakest faction would come along, declare Orbital Spaceflight, and declare Vendetta when I told them to sit on a stick.
The best policy is to wipe out whoever makes vendetta on you. After three or four wipe-outs everyone else tends to fall into line
Nell_Smith posted 05-08-99 02:23 PM ET
Yeah, but you gotta admire Morgan's spirit... OK so in the real world, a fat rich capitalist with two Syntmetal Sentinels to his name would probably capitulate to a rampaging warmonger armed with 400 Hovertanks lurking on his borders... but then again, in the real world, a pacifist nature-lover like Deirdre wouldn't amass the world's biggest collection of PBs and then drop them on everyone else
I don't mind when factions who are obviously going to get squished make outrageous demands... in fact it's quite funny!
Nell... still wondering why Deirdre always manages to kick Yang's butt... hehe
Evk posted 05-08-99 02:43 PM ET
Arrgh. I've actually yet to play a game where I don't end up kicking Deirde's ass, usually because of the fact that I use Planned economics. Oh me! I'm tho bad.
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Author	Topic: Strange behavior from other faction leaders...
The Dude	posted 05-08-99 01:22 PM ET Last night I was playing through my first complete game of SMAC (I'm just learning the game right now...can we say "learning curve"?) At one point I had, I believe, Morgan down to his last two bases with hardly any units. However, every turn he kept messaging me telling me something like, "You still have time to end this outrage and surrender!" I had overwhelming military forces near his poorly defended bases, and he wants me to succumb to him! Even when he was down to his last man, he still kept telling me that if I would bow to him, he'd lift his vendetta. Shouldn't I have been the one asking for terms of surrender from him? As far as that goes, why are the other faction leaders allowed to make their demands first even when you initiate the contact? This is obviously a very deep and complex game, so perhaps I have yet to figure out the interaction of different choices on my part, but it seems that opposing faction AI is a tad inconsistent.
Evk	posted 05-08-99 02:00 PM ET No, the AI is just very, very stupid. Aah, many 'tis the time my power-bar was easily double anybody elses', and the weakest faction would come along, declare Orbital Spaceflight, and declare Vendetta when I told them to sit on a stick. The best policy is to wipe out whoever makes vendetta on you. After three or four wipe-outs everyone else tends to fall into line
Nell_Smith	posted 05-08-99 02:23 PM ET Yeah, but you gotta admire Morgan's spirit... OK so in the real world, a fat rich capitalist with two Syntmetal Sentinels to his name would probably capitulate to a rampaging warmonger armed with 400 Hovertanks lurking on his borders... but then again, in the real world, a pacifist nature-lover like Deirdre wouldn't amass the world's biggest collection of PBs and then drop them on everyone else I don't mind when factions who are obviously going to get squished make outrageous demands... in fact it's quite funny! Nell... still wondering why Deirdre always manages to kick Yang's butt... hehe
Evk	posted 05-08-99 02:43 PM ET Arrgh. I've actually yet to play a game where I don't end up kicking Deirde's ass, usually because of the fact that I use Planned economics. Oh me! I'm tho bad.