anyone else have the bots cheat?

[mechasonic9000]

i'm playing a game where the bots dont need patent labs to buy up all the patents?! and he is doing it faster than i can get them to the point where i think the game is giving all the patents to them for free.

[Silver Citadel]

what HQ type is it. Bots don't cheat.

[mechasonic9000]

i cant tell you now that the match is long over. but they didn't have a patent lab and they were burning through patents left and right without one

[Bigheaded]

would very much like to see a replay when this happens. This isn't the first case people have made this exact claim that the AI doesn't need a patent lab.
It would be amusing if the AI now knows how to use holograms to hide them for as far as i was aware the AI just basically never figured those out.

HQ type wouldnt matter although scientist springs to mind as most likely, although scavengers are potentially able to get one up pretty fast.


So to answer your question, we've seen this particular "cheat" before but we've never been given decisive evidence as there are some answers to it such as the hologram. Until we've been given a replay file, it remains inconclusive.

[hexapus]

is it in campaign mode? CEO can come with patents and buy patents in between rounds
patents are also auctioned off, that's another way

In single player games, holograms are not an option

In multiplayer, the bot might have used a hologram on its patent lab? or they bought a hologram in an auction and then hid its patent lab? In Soren's talk, he purposefully made the AIs not use holograms to prevent players from complaining something like this, at least in single player games.

AIs don't cheat in this game. If you ever think that they are cheating, you can load the replay and observe closely at what they did.

[mechasonic9000]

hexapus even if you get those situations the list on the top right flag what special buildings you own. no patent lab was found.

[hexapus]

if a patent lab is under a hologram, you wouldn't see a patent lab to the top right

[mechasonic9000]

so the bots know how to use holograms?
i dont even think it was available in the black market.

[_Zevon]

Yep, if there was an auction for a hologram you wouldn't know it was there if you did not take the auction bid.