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Darsnan
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New Syracuse, Beta Prime
Dec 2001
time: 00:35
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I like to continually throw curve balls at myself, modifying the alphax.txt and the AI via the Scenario Editor. The best of these editations I then make into Challenges I feel worthy of sharing with everyone else.
Some of the things I'd recommend to others is as follows:
1. Googlie's Probe Cruiser mod. Simply add the following line to the #UNITS Section of your alphax.txt file(and increment the numeral below the "#UNITS" line by one). The AI's in your SP's will then build Probe Cruisers! I cannot recommend this modification enough !
Cruiser Probe Ship, Cruiser, Probe Team, Scout, 11, 0, 0, DocInit, -1, 00000000000000000000000000
2. Building custom maps and then randomly playing on them. If you understand how the AI effectively attacks you, you can build maps accordingly to the AI's advantage.
3. What I have done for more enjoyable SP play is to change the line under the #RESOURCEINFO Section in my alphax.txt file for Boreholes to the following:
Borehole Square, 1, 6, 6, 0,
This then gives Boreholes a nutrient bonus. If you then build custom maps per step 2 above, and then pepper them with randomly placed Boreholes, the AI's you enlist for an SP game will employ the boreholes effectively, meaning they will get a much nicer mid-game boost than if they were left otherwise....
4. Formers planting forests. Change the number of turns to plant forests to 5, instead of 4 turns. Here I'm simply trying to attenuate the humans advantage of the "Forest and Forget" approach.
Some ideas I use. Hopefully you'll find them usefull as well!
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TimeTraveler
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I noticed that on these forums people have expressed their preference toward getting Centauri Ecology and Industrial Automation as soon as possible so as to acquire Formers and Supply Crawlers. I wonder. What would happen if both unit types (and some real early terraform improvements) instead had no prerequisites? ...and perhaps made them a little more expensive instead?
I for one have yet to try such a modification, since I strated my current game shortly making this realization.
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Zeiter
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I recently tried increasing the cost of satellites, decreasing the cost of The Bulk Matter Transmitter, doubling the cost of supply crawlers, tweaking some combat bonuses, enabling the council to be called every 10 years, doubling the attack strength of conventional missles, and changing the SE settings in various ways. Made for an interesting game. Perhaps we should always have crawlers cost double so that it is harder to "crawler whore", forcing you to use crawlers more selectively. Also, if there was a way to erase the option of using crawlers to rush SP's, then I would do that. Building SP's before the AI would be much more difficult that way, and would make for a much more competitive game.
Also, I have a question: Has anyone ever seen the AI "accidentally" pop-boom? I think in one of my transcend games, Deidre had quite a few creches, and she must have switched to demo/planned for a while, becuase she had size 14 bases in no time. Kinda took me by surprise, really. If there was a way to encourage the building of creches, then the chances of the AI pop-booming would be much greater. Maybe putting the faction's priority on build would make it more likely to build creches. Any other ideas? Because, if we could get the AI to pop-boom, at least sporadically and accidentally, then the AI would be much more of a challenge.
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mart7x5
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I mainly fix bugs those mentioned in SMAC Academy. I like to enable sonar buoy, heavy transport ability. stuff like that.
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mart7x5
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Yes, I haven't noticed any heavy transports used by AI. So it's mainly for human players. In multiplayer it is nice addition. AI also never builds land transports probably. I naver declared land heavy transport in default units, so I cannot say anything about that possibility.
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Sirrocco
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The only modification I want to make is to the number of characters allowed in names. That's it.
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28-04-2004 23:16
(mostly tech tree, terraforming, units, project costs): details 
. Right now, I'm using 4/3 
. Sometimes I crank it up to 5/3 
. One of these days I'm going to see what 2/1 does 
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By the time you made enough busters for that, your opponents have doubled their base numbers 
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