AI broken by economic rebalance?
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Settings: Suicidal, Huge, Abundant all, normal research
I am concerned that the economic rebalance seems to be killing some of the computer AI’s under some conditions. I suspect that they are being overwhelmed by morale/economic problems…My theory is that they are out teching and out expanding their support capacity.
The reason I think this is that some races late into my games seem to reach a point where they can not grow their population, and where they seem to be unable to put out significant numbers of new ships (especially compared to 1.2 and earlier). This is more likely to be true of any race that failed to secure a morale or economic resource.
For example: My current game (version 1.4) is early 2228. I just finished off the humans in late 2227/early 2228. Most of their planets had populations at less than a billion, some at less than 200 million. Some of their planets were completely undefended, but most of their planets did have significant development. One planet had 88 million people, 2 Industrial sectors and some other miscellaneous development. This planet had been colonized for a while, so clearly the humans had been unable to grow the population. I am about to attack the Korx. When I checked their planets, the majority are still at less than a billion people! If I look to the north the Drengin are in a similar situation. A small smattering of good ships, but half their planets are undefended. This is not war attrition. I have been a party to all wars so far, except the one the Krox just started against the Altarian remnant (I already took all but 3 or 4 of their planets). Not everyone is crippled though, the Thalans seem to be doing just fine.
I never saw anything like the above scenario pre 1.31. I have seen it in my one 1.31 game and again in the 1.4 game I just started. I would love to think that I am sooo good that the computer just can’t make a showing, but frankly, I’m not!
My theory: What I think is happening is that the planets are being developed beyond the economic capacity of the computer race. A simple case of too many planets/buildings, too high of a tech level, and not enough people/income? How much of a deficit is being generated by that 88 million person planet in the example above? So the computer is simply using almost all of it resources to maintain what it has already built. Most of these planets still have extra squares, so any extra cash that may develop is immediately burned up by dropping down more buildings…I think playing on Suicidal and a Huge map may both be contributing to the problem. The computer is colonizing for longer and since it has a higher research development rate, it is putting advanced structures down on a large number of planets that have very little population.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I am concerned that the economic rebalance seems to be killing some of the computer AI’s under some conditions. I suspect that they are being overwhelmed by morale/economic problems…My theory is that they are out teching and out expanding their support capacity.
The reason I think this is that some races late into my games seem to reach a point where they can not grow their population, and where they seem to be unable to put out significant numbers of new ships (especially compared to 1.2 and earlier). This is more likely to be true of any race that failed to secure a morale or economic resource.
For example: My current game (version 1.4) is early 2228. I just finished off the humans in late 2227/early 2228. Most of their planets had populations at less than a billion, some at less than 200 million. Some of their planets were completely undefended, but most of their planets did have significant development. One planet had 88 million people, 2 Industrial sectors and some other miscellaneous development. This planet had been colonized for a while, so clearly the humans had been unable to grow the population. I am about to attack the Korx. When I checked their planets, the majority are still at less than a billion people! If I look to the north the Drengin are in a similar situation. A small smattering of good ships, but half their planets are undefended. This is not war attrition. I have been a party to all wars so far, except the one the Krox just started against the Altarian remnant (I already took all but 3 or 4 of their planets). Not everyone is crippled though, the Thalans seem to be doing just fine.
I never saw anything like the above scenario pre 1.31. I have seen it in my one 1.31 game and again in the 1.4 game I just started. I would love to think that I am sooo good that the computer just can’t make a showing, but frankly, I’m not!
My theory: What I think is happening is that the planets are being developed beyond the economic capacity of the computer race. A simple case of too many planets/buildings, too high of a tech level, and not enough people/income? How much of a deficit is being generated by that 88 million person planet in the example above? So the computer is simply using almost all of it resources to maintain what it has already built. Most of these planets still have extra squares, so any extra cash that may develop is immediately burned up by dropping down more buildings…I think playing on Suicidal and a Huge map may both be contributing to the problem. The computer is colonizing for longer and since it has a higher research development rate, it is putting advanced structures down on a large number of planets that have very little population.
Has anyone else experienced this?
