Author Topic: AI Moments of Glory (Read 16084 times)

JC123 · « **on:** August 27, 2012, 07:01:51 PM »

So Isaard just attacked a planet of mine that only had two Golan Is and six troop transport ships. Screwed, right? Wrong! I nailed that SSD with my ground-to-space cannons while she spun in circles looking for my transport ships.

What awesome AI moments of glory do you have to tell?

side note: Her fighters stayed in the center of the map. Should have checked the asteroid fields

Corey · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2012, 07:08:08 PM »

Technically, that's pathfinding, not the AI telling the unit to do it. The engine just doesn't know how to handle large ships.

JC123 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2012, 07:18:06 PM »

Quote from: Corey on August 27, 2012, 07:08:08 PM

Technically, that's pathfinding, not the AI telling the unit to do it. The engine just doesn't know how to handle large ships.

Aw, but "Pathfinding Moments of Glory" just doesn't have that ring.

Lord Xizer · « **Reply #3 on:** September 24, 2012, 09:18:36 PM »

When the Ai waited to jump an SSD in to back up their first one until the battle was completely over and then it jumped to far in and missed my fleet completely so all i had to do was shoot it in the rear until it died...not a single laser blast hit one of my ships...I was like well okay if you insist I shall kill you.

z741 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 25, 2012, 07:55:17 PM »

there was the one time i had to kill palps and he is mean but i managed as EotH no less to have only one ship in the battle i did some scouting and brought in a small ship. sure as hell he fired that laser and killed it but not before i jumped in like 4 Phalanxes and 4 Syndics. i let em at him and he died. as well as the rest of the era 3 heroes >_>

i just focus fired on his arse and ill tell you its a pain in the arse to select all them fighters and bombers >_>

JC123 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2012, 10:13:34 PM »

Quote from: z741 on September 25, 2012, 07:55:17 PM

there was the one time i had to kill palps and he is mean but i managed as EotH no less to have only one ship in the battle i did some scouting and brought in a small ship. sure as hell he fired that laser and killed it but not before i jumped in like 4 Phalanxes and 4 Syndics. i let em at him and he died. as well as the rest of the era 3 heroes >_>

i just focus fired on his arse and ill tell you its a pain in the arse to select all them fighters and bombers >_>

Ctrl+A saves my ass a lot of pain.

Quote from: Lord Xizer on September 24, 2012, 09:18:36 PM

When the Ai waited to jump an SSD in to back up their first one until the battle was completely over and then it jumped to far in and missed my fleet completely so all i had to do was shoot it in the rear until it died...not a single laser blast hit one of my ships...I was like well okay if you insist I shall kill you.

That, right there, is what I'm talking about

I built my first ever NR super ship and was psyched about killing some remnant. I had saved forever to build it. No sooner did I build it then a remnant SSD shows up and superlasers my poor arse. Worst waste of 40,000 credits ever! Haven't built another one since.

Eclipse · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2012, 05:32:45 PM »

I could say that the most WTF?? thing for me it was when the new republic in final imperial push attacked me with 3 Viscount and nothing more

tlmiller · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2012, 07:08:49 PM »

Well, I'd say there's probably not many fleets that could stand up to 3 Viscounts, so I would probably send them by themselves against most fleets also.

Eclipse · « **Reply #8 on:** October 11, 2012, 08:26:50 PM »

Yes you are right but I have assembled my fleet ( two SSD and at least 5 star destroyer with lancer frigates and some sutff) Haven't attacked them yet

JC123 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2012, 07:35:25 PM »

Quote from: Eclipse on October 11, 2012, 08:26:50 PM

Yes you are right but I have assembled my fleet ( two SSD and at least 5 star destroyer with lancer frigates and some sutff) Haven't attacked them yet

That's scary. Sounds like a long battle. Then again, the AI really knows how to waste super units.

Eclipse · « **Reply #10 on:** October 12, 2012, 08:55:49 PM »

Ye well I finally attacked the 3 viscount fleet but they had a little company this time in the end I loose my entire fleet including Tierce and Daala and they only managed to save one Viscount.

I know it sounds like I'm a horrible player but the thing is that in the end of the battle they brought the two viscounts right in front of my star destroyers (wich didn't last long) and while my SSD was turning arround they simply destroyer what was left of his shields, when I called the second SSD well it was kind of a lost battle just did it for fun...

Singularity · « **Reply #11 on:** October 13, 2012, 09:37:22 AM »

I built up a large fleet with 2 Praetors, and several ISD's and Grant to invade Kauron, and I lost most of the entire force to the NR's 30+ Quasar fleet (and nothing else), poor Grant had his engines blown up as I tried to escape

An AI moment of stupidity has got to be when they sent 3 Executors against my Kaine and a few ISD-1's and lost all 3.

JC123 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 30, 2012, 07:51:39 PM »

Quote from: Singularity on October 13, 2012, 09:37:22 AM

I built up a large fleet with 2 Praetors, and several ISD's and Grant to invade Kauron, and I lost most of the entire force to the NR's 30+ Quasar fleet (and nothing else), poor Grant had his engines blown up as I tried to escape

An AI moment of stupidity has got to be when they sent 3 Executors against my Kaine and a few ISD-1's and lost all 3.

Yep, as with most AI, the real strength is in out earning you and maybe getting lucky in a few battles. Watching it move all those units from planet to planet makes my head spin. Then they lose 3 SSDs in a fight against Kaine.

Revanchist · « **Reply #13 on:** October 30, 2012, 08:40:15 PM »

Quote from: JC123 on October 30, 2012, 07:51:39 PM

Yep, as with most AI, the real strength is in out earning you and maybe getting lucky in a few battles. Watching it move all those units from planet to planet makes my head spin. Then they lose 3 SSDs in a fight against Kaine.

Unless it is the NR AI, in which they just spam Quasars and fighters and destroy anything.

tlmiller · « **Reply #14 on:** October 30, 2012, 10:56:51 PM »

Yes, they do love to spam their Quasars!!

Revanchist · « **Reply #15 on:** March 31, 2013, 05:10:09 PM »

Sorry to revive this thread, but I just had an AI moment of glory as the PA in Essence of War. I had just successfully taken the space above Nirauan, and managed to kill Stent in the process. Then they send a fleet composing of Thrawn, Niriz, and various other heavy/light frigates against my fleet (Kaine, Munificents, and Acclamators, which I easily defeat. Next, they send there big fleet with Parck, Ar'alani, 2 Syndics, five Chafs, 12 Karieks, 15 Warlords, some other support ships, and 4 Massias Interdictors. The battle was long and fierce, with me losing all my support ships but destroying all their heroes, capital ships and heavy frigates. Eventually Kaine's shields fell, and the Warlords/Karieks managed to stay in his blind spot. I was 2 seconds into ordering a retreat when suddenly all 4 Interdictors jump in, and proceeded to do absolutely nothing to prevent my escape.

Lord Xizer · « **Reply #16 on:** March 31, 2013, 05:21:35 PM »

Jumped into a system with Kaine against Isard and another SSD and her heroes backed up by two Golan IIIs. The IR had a lot of shuttles in the back and I was sure going to get trashed by their forces when lo and behold the IR jumps to lightspeed giving me control of the system. WTF?

JC123 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 31, 2013, 07:35:27 PM »

Quote from: revanchist on March 31, 2013, 05:10:09 PM

Sorry to revive this thread, but I just had an AI moment of glory as the PA in Essence of War. I had just successfully taken the space above Nirauan, and managed to kill Stent in the process. Then they send a fleet composing of Thrawn, Niriz, and various other heavy/light frigates against my fleet (Kaine, Munificents, and Acclamators, which I easily defeat. Next, they send there big fleet with Parck, Ar'alani, 2 Syndics, five Chafs, 12 Karieks, 15 Warlords, some other support ships, and 4 Massias Interdictors. The battle was long and fierce, with me losing all my support ships but destroying all their heroes, capital ships and heavy frigates. Eventually Kaine's shields fell, and the Warlords/Karieks managed to stay in his blind spot. I was 2 seconds into ordering a retreat when suddenly all 4 Interdictors jump in, and proceeded to do absolutely nothing to prevent my escape.

That is the first time I've ever seen the AI ignore interdictors. The best part is bringing them into the battle just for looks. AI just wanted you to crap yourself for a second.

Lord Xizer · « **Reply #18 on:** March 31, 2013, 10:16:48 PM »

The AI never was good at using special abilities.

Eclipse · « **Reply #19 on:** April 03, 2013, 08:10:00 PM »

Maybe with you guys but the AI always used the interdictors agains my fleet