Map Editor bug and question about the Borg

posted on February 26th, 2014, 5:33 am

Both of these issues are quite simple and shouldn't take much explanation.

First, the map editor isn't allowing me to copy and/or paste. I don't know why this is a problem so suddenly. It's worked before.

Second, I'd like to know why it is that the Borg AI doesn't build Cubes. Is that a bug or is that "as intended"?

posted on February 28th, 2014, 2:49 pm

I don't know about the editor bug, but the AI follows a build order chart in order. So for example, the Borg chart may have 2 probes, 2 dodes, 2 assimilators, etc all the way up to a cube. The AI will build the ships in order until it runs out of resources, and it will try to stay in order so for example if the probes die it will rebuild them before building more stuff. Once the AI fills its chart it will repeat it. So if the AI isn't building cubes it means either they aren't on its build chart or it simply isn't getting that far in the build order. Usually since the AI's mining is so terrible, I give it a build cost decrease until it is spending almost nothing to build ships, and a build time increase to keep it from building infinite ships too quickly