Faction AI is freaking aggravating.

[Reizo Icefield]

Played the game 5 times from start to mid point, on veteran, until I was spammed with 5-6 carriers equiped with plasma cannons, every 5 months.
At which point it was impossible to stop the doom stacks of mecha rampaging on the ground.
And since plasma projectiles cannot be shot down, my fleet often was gone before it dealt some damage to the carriers.

Now, the above is not the issue

The issue is that I was fighting Aliens, servant and protectorate on my own every damn time. All other anti alien faction nosedived in to the ground right after a good start.
It's always like this, every faction have a good start with strong economy but around the time of first land invasion, they all are on the their knees.

The Ai will always buy massive amount of orgs that have huge money upkeep cost. Which will cause them to always be bankrupt.

It will also place mine on the first spot it find. Humanity first had 4 mines that produced 20 resources on avarage. For some reason it focuses on mars and asteroids. No faction send anything to jovian system.

Lastly it never do anything with alien trops on the ground.
Even the biggest alien haters, Humanity First completly ignored land invasion.
With exception of Servants, no other Ai faction had any presence in orbit, spaceship vise.

I would be able to push thru it and continue to play past that point IF I wasn't the only target avalible.

Right now I feel Iike I need to take a long break from this game, and wait for some patches to AI.

[Captiva]

Yeah, going through similar stuff. Invasion starts and nobody is doing jack. They were actually running coups and other ops in my countries while ignoring the alien invasion and I have been uber nice to the ai factions too.

Seems the only ai programmed correctly is the servant and aliens. servants seem to actually put points in countries economy and welfare and such and go for the most powerful countries. Other ai fight over south america and africa and let servants take all the good countries while pumping spoils and mission control and such.

Sad honestly the the devs made the other factions focus on player instead of aliens too when they are invading. Should be a unifying moment, not the opposite.

[ExavierMacbeth]

I honestly think its just the way the RNG plays sometimes... In my current game both the Servants & Protectorate got steamrolled by everyone early and didn't really make any headway until they started getting alien help.

But yea, like you would expect from humanity, its an alien invasion & possibly the end of the world and all we care about is beating the snot out of eachother :P

But yea I don't think I have ever seen a real coordination between the anti-alien factions to actually fight the aliens. Its always been accidental coincidence engagements were their actions just happened to trigger a snowball effect.

[Spiffy]

I'm at the same point, even tried playing as the servants but for the time being all the AI is just dumb as bricks. Aliens run headfirst into nukes and rely on nations and factions not cooperating - which is accurate and oh so time consuming to deal with given the pacing in this game. It doesn't matter who or how you play, it's always the same mess you get.

[Captiva]

Servants had EU, Russia, Germany, and India in my game. Made me sad to see it.... I took EU and Russia from them but other ai did not give a rats behind about taking them from servants.

I turned off Protectorate in my current game because they were basically just another alien faction to deal with.

[Mistfox]

My game, the academy wiped out an alien invasion by themselves. They do attack, when the mood strikes them.

[Antimon]

I have experienced the same issues. An alien invasion lands on Earth and nobody cares, especially not Humanity First.

In general, Humanity First does not have the slightest clue what to do. I would even say they are actively making the worst possible decisions. Some examples:

• In my first game I was allowed to watch HF in control of 4 of USA's 6 control points. For the next decade they waged war against dozens of irrelevant third world countries. They even attacked some countries more than once. After roughly a decade of these pointless wars they had managed to reduce the US GDP by 50%. At that point the USA had turned into a 5 CP country. When the Aliens invaded, HF's armies didn't do anything.
  
• Now in the next game HF's best country is Australia, and they own 1 of Indonesia's 4 points. The rest is third world countries with tiny, irrelevant GDP.
  
• Despite their extremely weak economic position on earth, HF has a massive presence in space, 13 bases and 6 space stations on Mars and the asteroids, and 23 ships (the year is 2034), They are more than 20 points over their MC and have negative money income.
  
• Many HF countries are infested with Xenoflora. Shouldn't it be a priority to get rid of that, especially for HF?

The diplomacy system is broken as well. It looks like factions don't have any influence on their countries' foreign policy.
Thankfully the last Alien invasion consisted of two troop transports landing on the same day, otherwise I probably wouldn't have noticed.
Preface: In this game I am Resistance, the servants of course hate me (status: war). I haven't done anything to upset HF in years (status: tolerance + non agression). I have more than a dozen armies ready in USA and Eurasia to welcome any alien invasion troops.

• Invasion force I lands in HF territory Afghanistan. HF refuses to ally with my Eurasia or USA to allow my troops access and save them.
  
• Invasion force II lands in neighboring Pakistan. This is controlled by the servants. Yet much to my surprise Pakistan is willing to ally with my Eurasia.

[Eltoron]

In my game game the main factions except me are... Exodus and Initiative. They together have mixed control in Noth America. Servants initialy takes China and Russia but I push them away from major nuclear stockpiles. Now they are struggling to hold control in permanently rebeling North Korea and Pakistan. The Protectorates main base in ruined Indonesia. From the start HF has a solid base in powerful India but later the military Coup bring it in the hands of Initiative. Now HF building power around India and fighting Protectorate in Oceania. And the second invasion, single ship sneaked and landed at Cuba, was repelled by... 10 marines corps under control of Project Exodus. So now from each 4 raids of aliens doomstack only one goes to my station and 3 goes to PE stations and hubs. Also I have spotted ruined stations under Servants control on low Earth orbit. I guess they take them from HF. HF has no significant present around Earth. But they have small but solid fleet on Mars. And they purge all Servants assets from mars system. So it can go in a different ways...

[OrangSemut]

Humanity First? Don't make me laugh. In the three games where I was learning the mechanics and to my current (serious) playthrough, I call them Humanity Last. The HL AI loves to run spoils and basically kills any major nation it controls.

And so many have commented, when the aliens land, they do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. And they are just as (in)effective in space.

As a matter of fact, it seems to me the AI loves to run spoils, esp HL.

[Reizo Icefield]

I forgot to mention that in this run I was specially helping HF.

I stole all of their expensive orgs that put them in to negative. Traded some of their mines for better one.
I also gave them 8k influence/ops cause they were on 0 most of the time.
Also gave them all the anti alien reaserch.
I didn't even mind when they were stealing some weapon tech.

I tried so hard, but in the end it didn't even matter.
They belly flopped just the same.


Basicaly only Protectorate and Servant reached level where they announced their goal.