Addicted Again
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:54 pm
Been playing all weekend, single player. Started with some Average games which I won so moved to Hard. Lost a couple of games but finally won a couple. I like playing on the Huge maps. What's the Cluster setting all about in 1.4?
I thought the Sakkras would be hard to play but they get so much population that it compensates for the lack of research. I almost won the council - lost by 1 vote. Eventually won by defeating the Antareans. The Antareans were a major pain - they seemed to attack me every time because I had the most population.
I then played a custom race, Omniscient, Trans-dimensional, -10 Ground, Large Home, Lucky, Pre Warp. Due to Lucky I was never attacked by the Antareans. I expanded a bit then built a small mirv-nuc fleet to defeat a monster and get an awesome planet/system. I was neglecting ship offense and defense and the Bulrathi (with lvl 3 shields) declared war and attacked. I had one turn to prepare so I made some bad trades to get some weapons and shields and built 4 ships (4 colonies in the system) to add to my small fleet. The Bulrathi ran. I later won by council.
Does the AI trade with each other all the time? I find myself way back in the tech tree/graph even though it seems like I've been playing pretty optimally.
I thought the Sakkras would be hard to play but they get so much population that it compensates for the lack of research. I almost won the council - lost by 1 vote. Eventually won by defeating the Antareans. The Antareans were a major pain - they seemed to attack me every time because I had the most population.
I then played a custom race, Omniscient, Trans-dimensional, -10 Ground, Large Home, Lucky, Pre Warp. Due to Lucky I was never attacked by the Antareans. I expanded a bit then built a small mirv-nuc fleet to defeat a monster and get an awesome planet/system. I was neglecting ship offense and defense and the Bulrathi (with lvl 3 shields) declared war and attacked. I had one turn to prepare so I made some bad trades to get some weapons and shields and built 4 ships (4 colonies in the system) to add to my small fleet. The Bulrathi ran. I later won by council.
Does the AI trade with each other all the time? I find myself way back in the tech tree/graph even though it seems like I've been playing pretty optimally.