I don't know I had a good game on hard the other day where the AI was consistently hitting me with 4 cap ships and 20+ frigates. The only problem was that they all rain into very well defensed positions. Big issue is that the AI does not use defenses very well only a few times have I seen a well fortified AI world and they have the resources - I know because in team games there can only be one king and I wipe out friend and foe by the end

He sucked in November. He has gotten much better.

Sniff... I lose to the Beta 4 AI...

ok not really

why can't the Galciv2 AI be used for Sins. I don't think anyone would be complaining after the game is released. Talking about AI, does the game come with different difficulty settings.

AI's can't be plugged into entirely different games that way. The gameplay dynamics and rules are totally different.

My guess is that all factions use the same AI, as they are (at least from what we have seen unil now) very similar in their selection of their ships and the like, so their general buildorder and ship manouvering is the same. The abilities have their own set of points when and how they are employed (if you set them on autocast its the same for yours) so thats where they differ on ability per ability basis.

yea thats what i do 7v1 and i still win ...... after a while lol

Galciv2, expansion or no expansion. The AI is brutal to the newbies. Yes, Ron, i was joking.

I notice the AI runing away with its flagship much to early and I feel that it should move its flag with a better support fleet.

It just seems the AI dosnt know how to compose its fleet very well to me from where I stand granted its made a bit of stride since the last update, its still horrible in the face of a human opponent.

It calls primary(eve colloquial) poorly as well, often times opting to destroy support vessels while its single cap ship attempts to focus on another cap ship. If it were able to compose a group of support fire vessels (missile frigs) say X10, with another 10 frontline frigates, an better use of its flak frigates and primary target either support or capital assets of the AI's opponent it would go a long ways to making the games battles more intense, and naturaly would need a series of escalative fleet compositions to react with its newly researched technologies such as cruisers. So overal I feel like AI dosnt quite yet comprehend the difference between support fire and an assault fireline of expendable frigates, or focused primary tarted fire.

It also seems to lack the ability to create a multi pronged assault, such as what one mite do wtih a feignt sending in a skermishing force thats ultimately expendable into one system, streaming in lite reinforcements to make it appear as a full assault and then fully assault a different system if it has the routes available to do so, atleast that I havent noticed, or if the system recieving the feint is actualy succeeding with its light assault and bolstering it appropriately.

However I will say that when it wants to see a valuable cap ship of your own thats severely wounded it will stop at nothing to destroy it with everything it has aspecialy if its around level 7+.

Its system defenses are horribly subpar and hasnt caught on that using two repair projector arrays to mitigate damage across a longer period is often times more advantageous than only one as the primary array runs out of antimatter to dispense with repairs albeit fairly quickly, the second usualy is enough to buy time for the other to replenish its antimat pool a bit ones it runs out. So, not that its a bad thing, its actualy a very good thing, to have systems with proper defensive composition because it makes it imperative to bring those structures down first in any assault to spare the attacker a protracted length of engagement in a system that without them mite have fallen very quickly.

hmm maybe i am not really sure what i am doing for the most part. i was hoping i could take my time learning the game on easy. but the ai uses me as target practice early in the game. I usually get myself a capital ship at the start and built another 4 or so frigates.

i sent my capital ship and the frigates i got at the start to another system to take it. I then built mines were needed and i blow the rest of my resources on turrets. After that i play waiting game until i got more resources so i can do research and built more turrets.

I may have to look for a guide that could help me learn the game. i do enjoy the game but i want to get a bit further into the game and see the other stuff. I am gonne try a 1vs 2 if that is possible me having an ally and hopefully taking some of the heat of me.

hmm thanks i'll try that. what kind of defences i am guessing ships, do the turrets get better with research?

Off topic, and yeah, the AI is way too easy.