Aquarius - scenario for SMAX

[Mart]

Pirates scenario.
AI factions are boosted.

Faction 1=PIRATES
Faction 2=GAIANS
Faction 3=HIVE
Faction 4=UNIV
Faction 5=MORGAN
Faction 6=DRONE
Faction 7=ANGELS

There are also new pre-defined units, so take a look in F1 screen.
Difficulty is that AI may attempt a victory condition you usually do not expect in this game period.
It is a save file only.
Have fun!

[Lazerus]

Things going great so far, managed to pop an earthquake with my new rover and destroy 3 of my ships

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Lazerus
Things going great so far, managed to pop an earthquake with my new rover and destroy 3 of my ships

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Ouch thats a tough lesson there

Perhaps I should give this a whirl. I see the Pirates as one of about 4-5 factions where I don't even claim competence so it could be QUITE a challenge for me

[Lazerus]

Yeah same here. Whatever trigger you're using to help the AI i'm taking massive advantage of it mart

[Mart]

Playing like a decent CEO?
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it's kinda a feature.
Nice for a player, when you get several k
Now, still AI gives you half, so... visit F3 often, and be prepared
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unless you use probes...

[Mart]

Yes, Lazerus, if you are using probes, write how it is going. which faction you use most?
The most dangerous is Morgan, but other can still reach energy level for the victory condition.

I have been using this AI bonus for some time now. And some observation, when comparing to what happens, when you give AI energy in the form of FUNGENERGY or other tile bonuses, that AI accumulates, does not spend. Something like - if energy does not come from tiles, AI does not know that it has it. It still hurries units, and this is a plus, when you attack it, suddenly in a few turns it musters quite an army. But keeping all this energy lets human players either borrow or probe it.

When AI has little energy, I rarely do "drain energy", just rarely worth of lost probe team, but when AI has many k...

[Maniac]

Does the AI here mind control bases?

[Mart]

When I was playing it, it did not happen to Pirates, but between AI, that might be possible.
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A moment, there was one case. Gaians did it. once, near the end, when the game was played sloppy:

base size 2, and units
5-1-2
5-1-2
1-2-1
former

I remember now - was busy killing Gaian probe on one side, while there were 2 more probes on the other side, they come around the fungus...

And you would think SMAX AI cannot flank you

[Lazerus]

Morgan had masses of energy, i got 13k from him from him in a loan ! and yet he still saved up more and cornered the global energy market ! I think i got a 2-3k loan from Dee aswell.
Was a shame to kill Morgan since he'd been a long standing pact mate and traded me loads of techs. Also been probe raping the angels for about 500ec per theft. Domai has been another good source of techs to steal from. Yang (until recently) and Dee have been good pact partners trading with me. Zak is too far away to do anything too.

Currently 2188, Morgan and Roze almost dead, starting to slow down military and will get clean formers pumped out since im just a few turns away from biomachinery which will allow me to switch back to FM once i've got CV

[Mart]

What year Morgan started his 20 turn cornering?
2171, was when I played it.

Congrats for killing Morgan.
Any details as for expedition force taking over the capital?

[Lazerus]

2179 here (obviously later since i took 13k)

He was quite weakly defended when i hit him, a few silksteels but no AAA on them and i stole MMI and built the CBA before him. So 5-10 chaos noodles and a couple of missile choppers with 2 jump troops easily beat him for me.

[Mart]

Two 5-1-2 rovers against 2-3p+-1 (pulse, ECM), no chance...
So Morgan won in 2191.

5-10 planes and couple of copters - this was for HQ base only? he must have had several silksteel

[Lazerus]

Ah no, that was for his entire continent

[Mart]

Lazerus,
Morgan gave you 13k, and maybe with his skills you got 30k payment in 100 years. So it is -300 EC/year.
Have you been on negative energy income? Or when you borrowed it, you had already over +300 EC?

[Lazerus]

was -250 for awhile, a small popboom got me upto -100 and once i declared vendetta on him i was in the plus