Star Ruler AI, how is it so good, or am I just bad?

[MAKSIMAL PROFIT DAREDEVIL]

So I absolutely love this game, the customization and learning curve are amazing. One problem I have with the game however is that it seems like the AI cheats on harder difficulties even when it's not set to be cheating. I made myself have an AI Ally in one game and watched what it did, the first twenty minutes seem relatively normal but after that it just starts proliferating itself all over without getting bottlenecked by over expanding, and it does this WHILE building ♥♥♥♥♥ and researching. wtf? I don't know if it's bc I'm a noob(I probably am) or if the AI is just that good at doing optimization that it can execute every facet of the game without flaw and maximize its industry.

Another thing that confused me was while the AI was expanding and building far beyond what I had, the game was still showing that I was in first place economically, which made no sense bc I was bottlenecked and couldn't build anything. I had like two systems with fully developed planets and four others with totally underdeveloped. I did this because I saw the AI rapidly expanding and just decided that I'd try and do the same to see if it'd work. Also, I had every single one of my planets set to an economic governer, it still wasn't enough.

tl;dr. how does the AI build up so quickly and expact without getting bottlenecked economically, while simultaneously building a fleet to defend itself?

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if you want to win, just build more colonizers. More colonizers means more resources, then you have the ability to build more ships. Because all resources will be transfered into empire bank, so it is not necessary to consider how to manage these planets. Just build more colonizers, the more planets you have the higher chances you may win.

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And bombers are always good for system defense, and huge battleships are good for attacking. Bombard their planets first because in the game you can build thousands of ships immediately through just one planet with lots of spaceports and shipyards.

[jonbrave]

Originally posted by ordpus:

if you want to win, just build more colonizers.

Well if you follow that advice literally, you'll just stall.

I don't know whether the AI cheats, but I do know that if you practice you can improve your management skills. Give yourself some space & time (one defender AI opponent on a fair-sized galaxy) and see how quickly you can expand without stalling. Discover what rate you can colonize at. Sometimes if I want to play it for an hour I see how quickly I can do it.

[MAKSIMAL PROFIT DAREDEVIL]

The first time I played this game I was actually fairly decent at it, once I was at my third or forth game I was beating the AI rather effortlessly even on harder difficulties, even hardest. I think I found the problem I was having these past few days though, when I was expanding I'd also be teching in metallurgy and economics hoping that'd boost my starports power to export/import sources to and from the galactic bank while also improving all of my metal/electronic/adv parts factories but everytime I teched up in one of those every single one of my planets would go through with renovations so that drained up all my money and I was left with nothing for a LONG time. I'm going to play a few more test games to see if this is actually it, I think it was.

I guess I was just trying too hard to min/max but in the end it was actually just screwing me over.

[moggers]

You can outpace the AI incredibly quickly if you get a nice early research advantage. I don't know what kind of rules the AI operates on, but it shouldn't really matter when you have three times their research and produce twice the metal with half the mines.

[Agathosdaimon]

i am having this problem - i have played a few games now against a few medium AIs , and i cant figure out how to get ahead - if i send out colonisers then it is a drain on resources having htem all building at the same time, but if i dont get them out then i dont have enough room on existing planets to be getting all teh resources and then as soon as i encounter an AI they are demanding some enormous amount of goods or luxuries which i never have, and they never accept any demands i make on them

i have been barely able to colonize 4 systems by the time the AIs empires are banging up against mine and they have dozens on ships and colonizers and can just steamroll me - do the AI ever fight amongst themselves? they all declare war on me as soon as i am unable to give them a tonne of luxuries or something

can someone offer some practical beginner advice on how i can even up the scales? does using civil acts play an important ongoing role?

[Radioshow]

Too late right now, but ill give ya some tips tomorrow, add me on steam if ya like. I'm not a pro per se but I know alot about the game. Read my post in the other topic lots there to get started.

[Radioshow]

Check this forum thread.
http://forums.blind-mind.com/index.php?topic=4528.0

[jonbrave]

Originally posted by Imperator:

but everytime I teched up in one of those every single one of my planets would go through with renovations so that drained up all my money

In case you're not aware now, you can prevent auto-renovation on planets if you're finding that a problem.