Ctrl+Shift+U

[Darrell01]

Does anyone have any strategies they use against the computer AI that involves giving them units?

One of mine that I use is when the computer I don't want to fight is building colony pods, or maybe even a wonder (that's never really happened, but I might use it if I was playing on super duper transcendi mode) I will give them a bunch of terraformers to tie up their support so they cannot produce minerals. By doing this, not only do I tie up minerals, but the computer might build roads and some minor improvements before I walk thru with my magtube assault. I suppose I could give them scout patrols, but that would make them foolhardy and try and go to war with me, which then I'd have to use a shard chopper to chop up all the scout patrols I gave them. I have terraformed and colony podded up they base to max before. That was kinda fun.

Kinda getting off topic of my own post, have you ever terraformed a computer's land to flat so they get hardly any minerals? I've thought about it, but I've never really gotten around to it.

[Leon Trotsky]

Re: Ctrl+Shift+U

Originally posted by Darrell01
I will give them a bunch of terraformers to tie up their support so they cannot produce minerals. By doing this, not only do I tie up minerals, but the computer might build roads and some minor improvements before I walk thru with my magtube assault. I suppose I could give them scout patrols, (...) have you ever terraformed a computer's land to flat so they get hardly any minerals? (...)

Sounds like the kind of stuff the AI does by itself.

[Flubber]

NO -- I always figure Ican do more with more units myself than the benefit I would get by burdening the AI with support obligations. If I don't need more military I can always fins a use for a former of crawler.

This simply sounds like a strategy that is merely to amuse yourself in a game that is already so irrevocably won that you can toy with interesting ideas

[CEO Aaron]

Flubber has the right of it. You're far better off using the units to further cement your advantage than hampering a rival. If the AI is so feeble that giving them units doesn't help them overcome you, you need to graduate to higher difficulty.

[Darrell01]

Yeah. After reading these posts and getting ideas from you guys, I'm suddenly rampaging thru transcendi level like its citizen level. I know I'm playing around with the AI, but damn it, I like it! It is a waste of time tho. Right now I'm playing the Cult and I own pretty much the whole planet. playing ICS+3 on a huge map. ICS is nice because I don't have to plan out where the next city is going to be. I just put it on the grid. Ok, ok... I'm getting off topic...