AI vs AI only

I would really love the ability to go into singleplayer and replace the human player with an AI and spectate. It would be a lot of fun to watch a big game with max difficulty AI fight each other, I think. I think it's sad it was never a thing in Rebellion and would love it to be a thing here!

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Hey, thanks for sharing this idea!

Let me guess, do you like watching those civ/stellaris ai only games on youtube? :D

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I actually didn't know you could do that in those games, never tried it! I might do it with Stellaris now that you mention it!

But actually I was in a weird spot where I was craving playing some Sins but didn't have the mental capacity to actually play, so I thought it would be a lot of fun to open a huge map with high level AI (I initially wanted to try this with the Maelstrom mod in Rebellion, since it adds a lot more factions.) and just see what happens.

I think the capability of having these watchable AI matches would be a lot of fun for multiple people, and could even be a way to learn more about strategy or just how the AI works in general (yeah I know I could just watch actual human strategy videos, but that's not nearly as fun in my opinion :p).

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We use that mode internally to watch the Ai behavior but will consider making it available to the public at a later date :)

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Great idea!

I would be happy to see how AI fight with each other and learn something than watching TV B)  

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+1 to this! :) Playing the game is fun of course, but sometimes I just like to sit back and watch the beautiful space battles in this game. I do this "AI vs AI" manually at the moment by selecting a map, then having 2 or more AIs in two teams, then I just scuttle all my stuff and click continue play. But this doesn't work on 2 player maps.