AI Difficulty

[Vanidas]

So, I tried playing one of the harder-level AIs once. I built up a fairly large fleet and started preparing for attack. The AI sent in their entire fleet to stop me, resulting in heavy casualties on my side and the total loss of their fleet. After I started repairing and rebuilding my fleet, they attacked with another fleet twice the size of the one they lost, with twice as many capital ships and a Titan.

My question is, does increasing the difficulty actually make the AI smarter strategy-wise, or does it just increase their resource income and ability to poop ships as my story above would support? In Ashes of the Singularity I believe the AI difficulty is strategy-based as opposed to resource-based, but I can't think of any strategy that allows them to build that large of a fleet so quickly.

[KRT™Caesars_Legion]

The Sins AI is fairly rudimentary, so any increase in difficulty simply increases their resource income, build rates, etc, not an improvement in overall strategy.

[chaosbringer42]

1 hard AI is about as difficult as 5 norms on a team, and the difficulties scale upwards from there. The resource and build bonuses get a bit retarded op on the hardest 2 AI types.

[Keviin Sorbo]

i think hard gets x2 bonus..i know the viscious is 7x

[Fyst]

I would watch the replay - its also possible he had another fleet besides the one you first fought.

[KRT™Caesars_Legion]

I believe Hard AI is the hardest the AI gets without any added bonuses. Whether or not the AI is Aggressive will also influence its gameplay.

[chaosbringer42]

Originally posted by Caesars_Legion:

I believe Hard AI is the hardest the AI gets without any added bonuses. Whether or not the AI is Aggressive will also influence its gameplay.

I think its easy =.75x norm =1x hard=2x unfair=3x cruel=5x vicious=7x for AI bonuses.

Originally posted by Fyst:

I would watch the replay - its also possible he had another fleet besides the one you first fought.

I have actually baited an AI into attacking with an entire fleet and wiped it out (took out titan, all but one capship and most of the other ships) on a normal fleet size game. After about 5 minutes it had the entire fleet back with the exact same level capships it had before (above what a player can buy to). AIs cheat nastily sometimes, but it makes the game more fun.

[Vanidas]

Based on the territory they had control of and how early-game it was, it's not possible that they had a second fleet twice the size of the first, especially considering how large the first was.

[Keviin Sorbo]

Originally posted by TiCr Dr. Von Feffarf:

Based on the territory they had control of and how early-game it was, it's not possible that they had a second fleet twice the size of the first, especially considering how large the first was.

you could have 2 fleet upgrades in 18 minutes..so if they had 3 fleet upgrades in like less than 30 min its not that farfetched specially if it was set to agressor

[Vanidas]

Originally posted by Jack Bauer:

Originally posted by TiCr Dr. Von Feffarf:

Based on the territory they had control of and how early-game it was, it's not possible that they had a second fleet twice the size of the first, especially considering how large the first was.

you could have 2 fleet upgrades in 18 minutes..so if they had 3 fleet upgrades in like less than 30 min its not that farfetched specially if it was set to agressor

Right, but considering that each fleet upgrade drains their income, there was no possible way with the few planets they owned that an entire second fleet especially one of the size I saw was just sitting around. And if it was, why not attack with that first?

[Fyst]

Do you have the replay? It should have auto-saved. I'd be curious to see what was happening behind the scenes.

[Vanidas]

Originally posted by Fyst:

Do you have the replay? It should have auto-saved. I'd be curious to see what was happening behind the scenes.

This happened probably about a year or two ago, so no, I don't have the replay.

[Tsunamisan]

try the hardedst AI they ar buffed up so much a few light ships can take out a capital. especially terran one s since they are so weak alone

[phaoray]

I always play the second hardest difficulty, the hardest isn't possible unless you have several allies right off the bat I imagine. They just roll over you otherwise in that difficulty.