AI combat bonuses by difficulty level

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creativename
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AI combat bonuses by difficulty level

Postby creativename » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:27 pm

What are the AI BA/BD/Missile Evasion bonuses for various difficulty settings? I checked in Impossible, and they seemed to vary - some races seemed to have almost no bonuses - others seemed to have extra defensive bonuses of 40 or 50 points (beyond racial modifiers).

Is it random for each game - some races receive bonuses, others don't?

Also, a side question - do most people play with ship initiative on or off?

marhawkman
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Postby marhawkman » Tue May 01, 2007 12:39 pm

Well... Some races have a penalty in normal, those are likely the ones that have only a tiny bonus in impossible.

creativename
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Postby creativename » Wed May 02, 2007 3:52 pm

No, by bonus I meant bonus after racial modifiers. I created a test game in impossible and used cheats to get fuel cell tech and then attacked all the frigates and star bases. 1 race had only a 10 point SA bonus beyond what they would have on normal, others had modereate bonuses, and others had 40-50 point defensive bonuses.

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Postby marhawkman » Fri May 04, 2007 5:02 am

No, by bonus I meant bonus after racial modifiers. I created a test game in impossible and used cheats to get fuel cell tech and then attacked all the frigates and star bases. 1 race had only a 10 point SA bonus beyond what they would have on normal, others had modereate bonuses, and others had 40-50 point defensive bonuses.
Erm could you post the data for what they have in each?

creativename
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Postby creativename » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:17 pm

It seems I never responded to this :) Though I still experience some races having extra bonuses in Impossible.

I played on Average difficulty a couple times. Below are stats I saw. (FF=Frigate, SB=Star Base, ME=Missile Evasion)

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Race Ship BA BD ME Sakkra FF 25 50 0 Sakkra SB 40 -5 7 Bulrathi FF 45 50 0 Bulrathi SB 60 -5 7 Mrrshan FF 90 65 7 Mrrshan SB 90 -5 7 Psilon FF 25 50 0 Psilon SB 40 -5 7 Trilarian FF 25 70 0 Trilarian SB 40 -5 7 Silicoid FF 25 50 0 Silicoid SB 40 -5 7 Klackon FF 25 50 0 Klackon SB 40 -5 7 Elerian FF 45 75 25 Elerian SB 60 -5 7 Alkari FF 25 100 50 Alkari SB 40 -5 7 Gnolam FF 25 50 0 Gnolam SB 40 -5 7 Darlok FF 25 50 0 Darlok SB 40 -5 7 Meklar FF 25 50 0 Meklar SB 40 -5 7
In the times I played Average, I encountered the Bulrathi, Mrrshan, Trilarian, and Klackon twice. Each race had the same stats each time.

I played a few times on Impossible, and below are the stats I saw for that.

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Race Ship BA BD ME Sakkra FF 25 50 0 Sakkra SB 40 -5 7 Bulrathi FF 45 75 25 Bulrathi SB 60 -5 7 Mrrshan FF 90 90 32 Mrrshan SB 90 -5 7 Psilon FF 25 50 0 Psilon SB 40 -5 7 Trilarian FF 25 70 0 Trilarian SB 40 -5 7 Silicoid FF 25 50 0 Silicoid SB 40 -5 7 Klackon FF 25/45 50/75 0/25 Klackon SB 40/60 -5/-5 7/7 Elerian FF 45 75 25 Elerian SB 60 -5 7 Alkari FF 25/35/45 100/120/120 50/50/50 Alkari SB 40/40/60 -5/-5/-5 7/7/7 Gnolam FF 25 50 0 Gnolam SB 40 -5 7 Darlok FF 25/45 75/95 25/25 Darlok SB 40/60 -5/-5 7/7 Meklar FF 25/45 50/75 0/25 Meklar SB 40/60 -5/-5 7/7
The following races had varying stats on Impossible: Klackon, Alkari, Darlok, Meklar. The Alkari actually had three different sets of Impossible stats, different each game.

To summarize, I saw BA bonuses on Impossible of +10 or +20 extra (beyond racial modifiers), BD bonuses of +20, +25, and +45 (but only on ships, not star bases), and Missile Evasion bonuses of +25%. I would estimate that a race had some bonus on Impossible about one-fifth to one-third of the time.

Other things:
  • Something I noticed about the Mrrshan while doing this - they seem to get cheated of the crew experience BA bonus that Warlord's +1 crew experience should give them. On Average they get the +15 BD and 7% ME bonuses, but their BA is +90, which has their +50 SA bonus but not the +15 BA crew experience bonus . They don't get the crew experience BA bonus on Impossible either.
  • Three times on Impossible (each game I tried), the Mrrshan had better BD and ME on their frigates than at Average.
  • The Trilarians seem to get a +20 SD bonus from Trans-Dimensional which I didn't know about.


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