Was the AL's AI nerfed in the last update?

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Hi all,

One thing I've noticed since the update to 1.82 is that Advent Loyalists seems to always be the first AIs to be killed off completely in all the maps I'm played since the update. Even when I've set up AL to a 3:2 advantage over all the other AIs and I've been sending the pirates after the non-AL AI, the ALs still all seem to die off before any non-AL.
Has any one else noticed this?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Well, AL is probably one of the weaker factions overall. Might have something to do with it.

If you really want that to change though, the Advent Loyalists AI in my Enhanced 4X mod is probably the strongest. Every few versions I get complaints that they're too good. ;)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Legends say playing multiplayer will solve this problem.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Yes, multiplayer would definitely solve the problem.

But living in a regional/semi-rural area with only crappy over-priced mobile broadband being available, it kinda shoots that idea in the foot.

Plus I usually restrict myself to Caps only plus 50 supply of non-Caps in game to give the AI a bit of advantage over me, just to make it interesting.

But thanks for the replies guys, the info is most appreciated.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Word of warning...sending pirates to a player may actually help them as that's free XP for their caps and titans...you aren't starving the poor AL of free XP are you?

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I only send the pirates to the non-ALs in very early game where it more of a hindrance than XP fest. Then I drop a starbase and my titan a jump away from the pirate base and soak up the XP no matter who they're raiding.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

One thing to note, too, is the setting that allows you to choose that AI player's "behavior"... the one that has choices of Aggressor, Researcher, etc... setting that to something other than random (ie, the one that will work best for them) might help.  In the Mod section there's a thread on the AI and the guy doing that came up with which ones of those appear to work best for each faction.