Senza32

Hm, perhaps there is a problem then.

You could say he was.... Overzealous in his necroing of this thread....

As do I, but it is distracting sometimes, can't blame the guy for wanting to get rid of it now and then.

Lmao nice Mecha.

Sounds like you just got unlucky, though I did get paired with a moronic Vasari AI who didn't know where to send its fleets for crap, it did build starbases, even on normal :O

You have to exploit their weaknesses, they're dumb as bricks when it comes to actual tactics.

[quote who="Major Stress" reply="8" id="3371272"] LOL!! There is a reason why autocast is disabled for Armistice. That IS Funny.[/quote] Tell that to the AI... god it's annoying lol

So, I just got the Space Ponies! achievement after capturing a dwarf planet named Artemis from a long defeated Vasari Rebel ai, in a random huge game! :O

They're definitely more active early game, but late game they fall pretty flat and don't really seem to do a whole lot much of the time, at least with normal AI. It also seems like to me they're allying less than they used to, leading me and my one allied AI to pretty much steamroll everything, although I could just be getting bad race/faction combos.

[quote who="Reice" reply="23" id="3368383"] > Space-faring empire finds a barren planet with a poor atmosphere > Most of the empire's people think it to be a horrible place to live > Industry arrives to exploit the planet > Because the planet is horrid, no one opposes the exploitation of planetary resources > The planet's industry is free to pollute the sky and support a ton of shenanigans Well, there's your back

Perhaps friendly culture not only spreads slower from industrial planets, but also slower to it? Idk c:

I get that Refineries are really expensive, but they are really powerful if you place them right o.o. And I also wonder if this increases it :O

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="13" id="3367627"] After reading Goa's post I took a look at a planet bonus file and...damn.... Cursory look told me these are the new modifiers: Bombing damage reduction Max allegiance Ship build cost Weapon damage Max mine count Max SB count That is HUGE... Now to be fair, I'm betting this is more v1.5 than th

I suppose it's possible they could potentially slow your expansion if you happened to get a bunch of oceanic planets near your homeworld, since they seem to have similar militia fleets to Terran planets, though the same thing could happen if they were Terran or desert planets. Plus, it's still better than spawning with a bunch of magnetic clouds connected to a pirate base around your homeworld :P.

I'm still alive, and coincidentally became interested in playing Sins again like 2 days before the DLC came out. Anyway I do actually like the DLC, it adds some depth to planet development that was not there before. The values listed for population figures do not seem to be accurate though, I was very excited to get my homeworld close to 1k population, though at full social specialization it was more like 700, despite what the tooltip said. The new planet types aren't all that

Also of note is the fact that Advent Loyalists get a research upgrade for their carriers which allows them to "convert" nearby enemy mines (though this makes no sense, it is very handy).

Basically what Goa said. AI (especially higher difficulty ones) get massive advantages. The main weakness of AI is that while they know how to put a decent fleet together (I've found that often they will build large numbers of counters to whatever you have, though it is rarely an optimal fleet comp), they haven't got a clue how to micromanage it. They will simply send all their ships right into range of a Starbase or other powerful unit instead of staying back and letting only u

There he isss.

Distract an AI with conversation? Ha! I think not!

Well it sounds like he is just out playing you. You might not be able to win in a situation like this. Someone else will probably prove me wrong, but. My best advice would be either to tech up to a Titan or to sit back and camp with Novaliths.

Try verifying the integrity of the game cache by right clicking in your steam library and going to properties. If any files are borked Steam will redownload them.

It would really be great if both of you would just discuss the balance issues instead of doing such while making unnecessary personal attacks against each other.

I discovered this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOxkAZk2dmQ&feature=relmfu from August and it made me lol, making fun of the old SttC x) I just had to share this with you guys lol

[quote who="Pbhead" reply="8" id="3246427"]very interestings. this changes things. [/quote] *Evil cackling can be heard in the background*

Unless he is talking about Civilian Infrastructure Bananas, in which case it would be quite possible.