My strategy for DL 1.5 at Tough difficulty: 0. Sliders at 1-49-50. 1. Keep morale at 100% as long as anomalies (read: free cash) allow 2. Explore to find other races, thus defining your "territory" 3. Grab high PQ planets near the borders if possible. 4. Backfill planets as available. 5. Diplomacy my way out of early wars. 6. Build offensive medium sized starships. 7. Lay waste to the galaxy. :D
[quote] You might find it helpful that the AI can't win by diplomatic victory. [/quote] Well, technically everyone in the alliance "wins" in a diplomatic victory. The human player is either part of the alliance or dead. If you were militarily defeated by an alliance of all remaining major races, you could say the AI won a diplomatic victory. At the end of the day, though, you still lost.
Yes I've been using the "enable CPU-intensive algorithms" option. I guess what I'd like to know now is whether the DA AI is more fun to play against than the DL AI. I realize that DA is a tougher game, but that should also make it tougher on the computer players. My biggest worry with DA is the computer opponents being unable to handle all the new features. Also, has the AI been updated in DA in a general sense, i.e., does the computer play better? I remember Brad saying that DL players wer
Does anyone know if there's a "sweet spot" in the game settings that gives the AI its best performance? I play DL 1.5 at Tough difficulty, usually in a Medium sized galaxy. I've been playing with all random settings in my last few games. Every one of them has been "over" long before victory is achieved. The AIs simply cannot match the strength of my economy. I start every game by deficit spending to stay at 100% morale until the cash runs out. Once I reach the "turnover" point I'll be midd
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