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Diplomatic victory in a 1 v 1 situation against AI? Well, as far as I can tell, you are not going to exceed the AI in gaining diplomacy points in a 1 v 1 due to the AI relationship bonus with humans IF you destroy his ships because you will be hurt more by the military actions penalty than he will. That being said, what you probably want to do is to form a ceasefire with him quick and early before any major battles take place. This can be done by teching the relationship bonus techs and the r

A few scouts (distraction) and a Starbase work too! [e digicons]O:)[/e]

Vicious AI are still prone to getting wrecked by 40k pirate missions. [e digicons]:ninja:[/e] To me, playing a Vicious AI is like playing someone who is patently bad at the game but can always get an economy that is through the roof. They aren't smart...but you aren't going to be able to outmuscle them. When I say outmuscle, I mean having a larger fleet than them.

Soo...we've all heard people saying that the pirates are super powerful and that it does not make sense that a ragtag band of pirates could be stronger than the might of the three factions...so I've come up with a theory. Remember this mysterious menace that the Vasari were running from? Well, in the years between Entrenchment and Diplomacy, that menace must have come into contact with the pirates somehow. They infested the pirates and that is why they get stronger with each raid. And

If you have an ally in a locked teams game, you won't lose unless both of you lose all your planets. Then you can run around with no planets and be fine.

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="3" id="2540145"] The AI simply won't support its starbases, and worst yet it will never buy the "auxiliary government" upgrade. This lead to a silly situation in a comp stomp last night where the AI had starbased its homeworld, and I simply went past it and started bombarding. The starbase was sitting there doing nothing the whole time. [/quote] The game I played last night against a Vicious AI in Diplomac

I've been trying to find a changelog between Diplomacy 1.0 and Beta 3...but haven't found anything. Also, in the manual, why are carriers listed as having Medium type armor when they should have heavy?

The only problem with adding too many pirates is that it will slow the game on less powerful machines :(.

Was it against Vasari? They have Phasic Barrier that makes targetting them manually a pain since for the duration they are phased out you can't target them.

[quote who="Raven1407" reply="19" id="2529683"]As i wrote in an other thread, i am not happy with this combination of amor (more than 42) and range. If pirates are able to have this without research center, what i should have, with a lot of them? So this is unbeleavable, the story broken. So the pirates will die for me and be disabled.[/quote] It does seem a little ridiculous but Pirate ships do not have shields. And to be fair, they probably stole that technolog

The Vicious and Cruel AI has also been implemented now. In beta, they never used their vast amount of resources (they cheat, yes). Now looking at the stats after a game, you can see that they are using it. I would imagine that the ai improvements implemented in Entrenchment and Vanilla are also in Diplomacy. The AI seemed to build their fleet composition better as well. With resource hax, of course, it is easy for the AI to get super high on the tech tree while still building a fleet. Though

Wait...so this is going to be a new capital ship all together then? Sounds interesting. It would make the weapon pacts slightly more useful for the different races. However, it does seem like a bit of a stretch to implement and balance since we are already in Beta 3.

Try some Subverters with the distortion field. They help a lot. Though you might want to cast that manually as sometimes they will all try to disable one area. If you do try to use lots of Enforcers again, try to have Reintegration researched as well so that they can repair themselves. Also a few Overseers will also help keep your fleet alive.

Hm, I thought they fixed that...at least in Entrenchment anyways. Oh, the AutoCast on Mass Disorient for Advent Starbase just keeps casting whether or not there are ships in the area.

Hahaha, that's kinda funny [e digicons]:D[/e] . Yep, envoys should definately not trigger mines while immune. Diplomatic immunity should not shield you from damage but should make it so no one fires on you. Although, realistically, the envoy should trigger mines while invulnerable and take the damage anyways--but no one wants that [e digicons];P[/e] .

To be honest, AI are kinda dumb with Capital Ships anyways. They might do better with only a few caps and a large fleet than they do with a lot of caps and a small fleet.

Anyone know how much the TEC Envoy donation ability actually gives me? It doesn't say what the sizeable amount of credits amounts to on the infocard. Also, the Envoy can use this ability anywhere and I would still get the credits?

Hm, I've never had that problem. Once the tech is researched, it is in a separate option in the missions list. However, the only time I tried doing this was during a locked teams game...I could not give my allies a mission to give me resources, only my enemies. [e digicons]>:([/e]

[quote who="agentx250" reply="4" id="2471635"]if its REALLY bothersome you can fix it your self you know [/quote] Oh really? How do you do that? [e digicons]:pout:[/e]

Yeah, that would make more sense.

These typos should be quick fixes for them at least. I'm sure they have higher priorities at the moment, but I hope they get it fixed eventually.

Yeah, I've noticed that before, I hope it gets fixed next patch.

The beam pact description is missing a keyword. It says "Two factions share beam weapon technlogy, mutually damage dealt by all beam type weapons for both peoples' ships and structures." I am assuming it increases damage dealt. Also technology is spelled wrong.

It happened to me too. I randomed Vasari so many times in a row. My friend kept randoming Advent. We eventually got a different race but it was kinda weird.

Kill the healers first. That will help. HC's are pretty good for Advent when fully upgraded but Illuminators are pretty cheap and really good. Carriers, I think, are the slowest thing besides capital ships. Also bombers wipe the floor with HC so that is probably why you won the second match...not to mention Advent Carriers have a lot of health and shield.