How active is the team game?

[Jamski]

Go WILD Googlie, make it almost impossible, start the faction in the desert dunes, on a small island with no bonuses, give all the AI +5 econ and free faculties rec tanks, rec commons and network node. Muck around with the files so they build masses of choppers and probe foils, etc etc. Lets see what you're capable of...

I really like the idea of all the SMAC players on this board together agaist the evilness of Googlie

-Jam

[Drogue]

Nah. That's a bit cheating. But you could RP that they land near the Unity Wreckage, and so can salvage the computer whereas we can't (they get map). Then you could give them a better start, and get them to use their advantages better. That sorta thing

[Jamski]

The AI knows the map anyway Drogue, its the only way the pathfinding can cope. nice RP idea though. Perhaps if the AI is set into two big perma-pacts of 3 factions then they won't waste so much time and so many resources fighting each other FOR THE WHOLE FLIPPING GAME! (sorry just my current SMAC thing)

-Jam

[Maniac]

eg: a scenario'd PBEM can be created whereby an AI Morgan is almost a sure lock to corner the energy market, or where Santiago will make a mid 2200's chop and drop attack on an enemy faction

Without giving them extra bases, energy, formers or terraformations at the start? Without making submissive research factions for Santiago? Just, starting in the same position as humans, with only modifying the AI preferences or adding some prebuilt units to the alphax.txt (eg a probe cruiser)?

[Octavian X]

So, we've gone from mad about spam to pure suicidal.

Sounds like fun. I might be in.

[Vev]

I love a challenge. Perhaps we can place bets on when we would be crushed by Googlie's hordes.

[Darkness' Edge]

So, in favour of doing this, we have...

Darkness' Edge
MrWhereItsAt
GeneralTacticus
Drogue
Vander
HongHu
Vev
Jamski?
Octavian X?

It'd be good if we could get a forum for this, so it doesn't get mixed up with the team ACDG.

[Kody]

I wouldn't mind joining in, but whether I stay depends on how much I enjoy it.

[johndmuller]

If you go with the variation Drogue suggested earlier, I'd be willing to play another faction too; you wouldn't even need to give me a beefed up faction (As Googs would for the AI) .

(Would the single players get to look at all the spam discussions about what to do and all?)

[Kody]

Hey that was my idea!!!

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=2277676#post2277676

Ofcourse I realise there will be a plumenting popularity for the idea now.

[Vev]

If it is a pure single player, Googlie can perform an odd tweak now and then to nudge the AI from doing something stupid.

[Voltaire]

Not a bad idea, I would support it. The team game, though fun, lacks the politics of the first game. Only this time we keep the parties.

[Octavian X]

I expect that once all the teams have met (in game) and planetary council votes go into full swing, the politicking and bickering between the teams will come back, with a vengance.

[Voltaire]

Originally posted by Octavian X
I expect that once all the teams have met (in game) and planetary council votes go into full swing, the politicking and bickering between the teams will come back, with a vengance.

I certainly hope so.

[Hercules]

That's my view also.