best race in beta 1.1

posted on June 3rd, 2003, 10:32 pm

the "best" race as in powerful when i play them would be feds, the best race the ai uses would be the klingons (there the only ones who seem to build anything but destroyers, and only some of the time do they do that ) in beta 2 i'll probably play the klingons more, i've always liked them better than the feds or borg, right now the BoP disgusts me though

Actually, the Borg are the only ones who build nothing but destroyers (Interceptors). The Federation AI will build Monsoon and Intrepid class after they finish building a certain number of Sabers, and then they will start to build Remore, Defiant, and Sovereigns. But in some games, the Federation only builds Sabers. There was only 1 game I played where the Borg built cubes.

posted on June 4th, 2003, 3:09 am

look at my pole grow.
a short story: THe went out asimilating when pasing a fleet of romulans thye went to engage it . Activate the tacion beam th colective muddered to its self. those romulans are but they will fall to the colective. we just need too :2guns: them down and crush them with our :tank: :tank: :tank: (cubes). But there not :wheelchair: like the federation. thye can put up a :guns: and defend them selves. there an :alien: life form that depends on :2guns: :tank: and paranoya. thats ther strength and weakness we muts exploit it.

posted on June 4th, 2003, 11:40 am

the new ai scripts are far more powerful.. we're thinking about making multiple different ais for every race, so there will be more difference between games.. but it's not sure if this is possible.

posted on June 4th, 2003, 6:58 pm

i hope it is possiable as i like a new game each time!
plus i would like to thank DocAcola for making this brill smiliey for me

posted on June 4th, 2003, 7:48 pm

I've played with the Idea of multi. AIs for each race, I was abel to get into about a min or two of gameplay, then it froze on me, no luck in solving the coding issues, I hope you can do better than I, Best of luck.

posted on June 4th, 2003, 7:57 pm

Borg are the best hands down. They're hideiously overpowered. The Feds stink and the klinks are marginal. The one thing they really got goin for them is that ship with the assault disruptor. That chews threw Capital Ships easy....

posted on June 4th, 2003, 8:06 pm

The borg are overpowered? I've lost to many games with them to believe that
what makes you think the Borg are overpowered, or was it just a bit of propaganda to join the collective?

posted on June 4th, 2003, 8:15 pm

No, just my experiance with what a fleet of Borg ships can do to a base. AND, it seems to me that in each class of ship, the borg vessel is just a bit more powerful than it's Klink/Fed counterpart. The Interceptor can outdo a Saber or BoP, the Sphere is more powerful than the Intrepid and whatever the kinks have, etc. And cube/tacticle Cube outdoes all.

posted on June 4th, 2003, 11:45 pm

I belive that it depends on how you use the race, Strategy can overcome any opp. Just because one ship may be more powerfull than the other, doesn't mean that race is more powerfull. If you notice the borg repair times are some what slower, also I noticed that there mining is also slower than most other races, And I have also lost many games playing as the borg, however, I've never lost playing as the Romulans...go figure.

posted on June 6th, 2003, 10:34 pm

wow my poll

posted on June 6th, 2003, 11:02 pm

wow my poll

hehe, yea, an interesting one

posted on June 6th, 2003, 11:16 pm

realy controvertioal to some people but what ever.

posted on June 8th, 2003, 12:50 pm

the "best" race as in powerful when i play them would be feds, the best race the ai uses would be the klingons (there the only ones who seem to build anything but destroyers, and only some of the time do they do that )  in beta 2 i'll probably play the klingons more, i've always liked them better than the feds or borg, right now the BoP disgusts me though 

Actually, the Borg are the only ones who build nothing but destroyers (Interceptors). The Federation AI will build Monsoon and Intrepid class after they finish building a certain number of Sabers, and then they will start to build Remore, Defiant, and Sovereigns. But in some games, the Federation only builds Sabers. There was only 1 game I played where the Borg built cubes.

I had a good game the other day versing two borg AI's on hard. I also had another hard AI on my side (Klingons) and I was the feds. Both borgs AI's built huge fleets of cubes and nearly took over my base with them. They even took over some of my ships which needed credits! I took them back though, which meant I had spent 13/10 credits Play the borg on an 8 player map with loads of moons, add 15mis of time there shall be cubes I've not seen any Fusion cubes though

BlackMaster

posted on June 11th, 2003, 2:33 am

I belive that it depends on how you use the race, Strategy can overcome any opp. Just because one ship may be more powerfull than the other, doesn't mean that race is more powerfull. If you notice the borg repair times are some what slower, also I noticed that there mining is also slower than most other races, And I have also lost many games playing as the borg, however, I've never lost playing as the Romulans...go figure.

The Borg's auto repair of their own ships makes up for the slow repair time. I don't knwo about the minning but that could explain why I run out of Lith so much. So far I haven't lost once as the borg. Their Defenses stations are incredible and the Tacticle Cube is unmatched.

posted on June 11th, 2003, 10:13 am

all races have the same mining rate.. but Borg ships cost quite more then Federation or Klingon vessels
The Borg repair rate is slow, cause they have many hull hitpoints, which makes it more time intensive to repair.