My skirmish with painful AI (FFA)

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Just played my 1st skirmish against the painful AI.  It was on the map seton as a free for all.  Unfortunately the game crashed before conclusion, but I did eliminate 1 AI seed, and was minutes away from bagging the other one one on my side.

1)  The game spawned me and 2 AI on the same side, and the 3rd AI by itself on the other side.  Was fully expecting to get steam rolled by the lone AI (since it could grab the southern land mass unmolested), but it never actually crossed the land bridge.  Are the spawns random?  I'm sure this unbalanced spawn will be fixed!  

2)  The AI did not build any air units - any particular reason for this?

3)  The AI did not build any t3 units, not even a advanced factory - any reason for this?   I feel I damaged the AI economically rather early, so maybe they could not support it?  This could explain the situation for the AI closest to me, but does not explain that for the other 2 AI's, especially not the one which spawned alone

4)  When I eliminated the 1st AI seed, a massive amount of his army was just chilling in his base.  I'm talking at least 70% of it.  Not really sure what the AI was trying to accomplish, but perhaps I had taken to much away from the AI and it could no longer build units so it was stock piling for defense?

Thanks!

 

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

1) Currently, spawns are fixed.

2) Because I haven't written the code for that yet :)

3) This is likely a bug.  I've never seen that, but I've never tried that map.

4) Once a seed is killed, the player is removed (but not his units at this point), so there wasn't anything to give orders.

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Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Thank you so much :D!

 

Eager to keep messing around, will be providing feedback!

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Reply #3 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Any feedback on what you feel the AI is doing wrong is greatly appreciated.

Reply #4 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Not sure if AI bug, but i played on that same map, and i couldn't attack enemy units/structures and the enemy couldn't attack me. Pretty strange bug...

Reply #6 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

That map (I'm assuming Seton) has some issues and the designers will need to revisit it.  Besides the technical issues, Blue team really has no hope of winning an FFA.