For Your Amusement: Some Super AI performing tricks

[smacksim]

A picture thread for the AI doing good things, like ICSing, or eating fungus. These are Super-AI from Aldebaran
Notice the Aquatic Faction laying down bases like no tomorrow. Even the grey-faction (Peacemaker) is laying a road of seabases towards her enemy. Go AI, go!

Oh yeah, the game starts in 2300, so this in only 170 years in. Right when the AI starts going for Transcendence. Huge map.

Edit: More clarification. This is a game with all Super-AI fighting each other. I just stopped it every decade or so to check on their progress. And though these pets are from Aldebaran, the same can be done with Super-AI for Smac(x) in general. If you have any pics of the AI doing pretty well for themselves, tack them on. Sometimes they can surprise you.

[smacksim]

I had to shrink this picture of Nauticon Isles of the Deep. He had over 130 deployed at once.

[smacksim]

Fungus Eating benefits are handy for the Planetlovers. What since they had massive ecodamage from 70 years in to the present.

[smacksim]

Here's the Planetlover Research Department 170years into the game. They had all the luck getting the labs-increasing SPs. They are running a -1 economy though, knuckleheads! Guess they figure they don't need any more EC's or Labs, what with the wormbaiting they are doing via fungal pops.
By the time they got to transcendent thought they were getting 2 techs a turn (~190 years in)

[smacksim]

And finally, a look at some of the production going on for the Planetlovers (oh, they are the dark-red colored dots on the map above). They quickly ran out of things to build with all the production from satellites and the +2 mineral SP (It's actually more like +50% minerals). They found making quantum planetbusters fun for awhile. Good thing I beefed up the Ascent to Transcendence to 10000 minerals

[Commy]

Mystery Food? Sounds very, very scientific. As for the pictures, very interesting, but honestly I like the stupid AI better.

[smacksim]

Originally posted by Commy
Mystery Food? Sounds very, very scientific. As for the pictures, very interesting, but honestly I like the stupid AI better.
Originally posted by Commy a minute later in "What bugs you most"
Don't forget the AI crawling fungus squares...
Or the AI PBing their own bases...
Or for existing at all...

What's gotten into you today Commy? I'm glad you appreciate the humor in the orbitals -S

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Commy
Mystery Food? Sounds very, very scientific.

IMO this is a work in progress. Can you provide a better name for this that you think is more "catchy" to everyone?

Originally posted by Commy As for the pictures, very interesting, but honestly I like the stupid AI better.

I personally am tired of the same old AI. I want something different!


D

[smacksim]

I'm just poking fun at Commy's Spammage. No need for arguing this out here . This is for amusement purposes only. Don't try this at home...yadda...yadda...

On the other hand, yeah, there are some place-holder names that will probably be changed. Suggestions welcome over in the Aldebaran thread. On the third hand, I remember well that noone but Cybergod seemed to find my place-holder names very funny. I have always been stumped by that . I suppose a 'serious' strategy game like Smac might not be easy to play if every time you go to build an important Secret Project you find yourself saying 'Just three more turns and I will have built the Huge Gnome Project! Yeah!'. O.k. I get it. I will try to refrain from lapses into humor in the future (now there I go teasing Darsnan. I can't help myself )

-S

[jtsisyoda]

Mystery Meat might be funnier. That's what we always called those sandwiches in school that had the fake rib bones. See also: McRib.

[Alex]

Mystery McRib?

[smacksim]

Mystery Meat. Heh. I remember those sandwiches. Ugh, the bellyache after a few of them.

I'm posting for a weird reason. I wanted to find this thread because I lost one of the pictures on my HDrive. Anyways, I went through the Gen/Help/Strategy pages and the thread did not appear anywhere. I looked three times. I did a search. I found the thread, but it's still not in the main forums. Weird. So I thought I'd post to see if this brings it back.

But really, who came up with the idea of a Sky Hydroponics Lab? That's almost sillier than anything we can think up. 'tis why I changed sattellites to underground laboratories in the mod. Growing food in space for eating on the ground? Weird.

[johndmuller]

Threads sometimes used to disappear in between pages (apparently a bug in the forum software which figures out where pages start) - they could be made to appear if you changed the number of threads to display per screen or if someone started a new thread, bumped an old one, etc. Don't know if that is still going on, but sounds like what you describe.

[smacksim]

Thanks John D.. I thought I'd gone crazy for sure . That does sound vbb familiar.

[Whoha]

How do you remove the player from controlling one of the factions?