10-14-2016, 11:47 PM
So I lost my first game of AI War, which, not surprisingly for this game, is an actual achievement.
The first thing I did wrong was do a hacking attempt extremely early into the game, on a high-level planet, right next to my homeworld. This initially spawned a stream of tier 3 ships the entire countdown for a design-copy hack.
The second thing I did wrong was underestimate the large number of aggressive ships right on my doorstep, because they seemed to not do anything, simply move back and forth from the wormhole to nearby the copy-beacon. This was probably because it was the Support Corps AI, which never attacks on it's own normally. So I didn't do anything to guard against it, like, upgrade my defenses with those shiny new turrets I just researched, or take my main fleet and just plain wipe it out.
The third thing I did wrong was try to expand while this was going on. The destruction of a command center marked me for a reprisal attack, which I ignored because I was busy trying to lock down the new system and didn't bother even retreating the fleet when the turrets started going up. The AI, meanwhile, realized it had a 200-attack-power fleet laying around, and immediately initiated a reprisal attack, and guess where?
By the time I realized the homeworld was under attack, a few seconds later I lost.
So that was fun. Already on my second game.
The first thing I did wrong was do a hacking attempt extremely early into the game, on a high-level planet, right next to my homeworld. This initially spawned a stream of tier 3 ships the entire countdown for a design-copy hack.
The second thing I did wrong was underestimate the large number of aggressive ships right on my doorstep, because they seemed to not do anything, simply move back and forth from the wormhole to nearby the copy-beacon. This was probably because it was the Support Corps AI, which never attacks on it's own normally. So I didn't do anything to guard against it, like, upgrade my defenses with those shiny new turrets I just researched, or take my main fleet and just plain wipe it out.
The third thing I did wrong was try to expand while this was going on. The destruction of a command center marked me for a reprisal attack, which I ignored because I was busy trying to lock down the new system and didn't bother even retreating the fleet when the turrets started going up. The AI, meanwhile, realized it had a 200-attack-power fleet laying around, and immediately initiated a reprisal attack, and guess where?
By the time I realized the homeworld was under attack, a few seconds later I lost.
So that was fun. Already on my second game.
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