posted on July 9th, 2009, 9:11 pm
Just a couple questions: First I've noticed with some consternation that whenever I play against any AI, it always goes the same way. That is to say they will spam build only ships from their basic shipyard. I've seen federation AI's build 5 basic yards and one or two advanced ones, they spam Akiras, Intrepids, etc but the advanced yards just sit there idle doing nothing until I destroy them.
Duration of the game doesn't seem to make any difference. Nor does resource settings, I've turtled long enough to destroy 4 thousand ships and never seen an enemy battle ship(with one exception being once in in rare while I'll get a Klingon opponent that will make Neg'Vars).
I realize FO has long had an issue in multiplayer balance where it's actually been near pointless to build anything bigger then the basic ships, maybe the AI is prioritizing ship construction this way for the same reason. But it gets a bit...stale to never see the bigger, supposedly badder ships. (I've actually never once seen a decent at all from me playing feds or fighting them). Is there any way to fix or change this behavior?
Second question is more of an idea I've wished FO had for awhile: In several of the new RTS games there's the option when selecting where to place a building- to rotate it's "footprint" so that it builds facing the direction you wish it too. Such an option is often very helpful when constructing a defensible base, and even more valuable in small maps where every bit of space is valuable. I have a feeling it might be a technical limitation, but it would be a nice addition.
