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RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:08 am
by Erik Rutins
Hi guys,
I'll comment briefly here to note that a very significant amount of time has been spent during the development of Distant Worlds: Shadows to make it possible to scale the difficulty to make the game challenging for all kinds of players. In addition to AI improvements, there is the ability to give the AI advantages. Quite a bit of this is based on suggestions here since the first release. Hopefully it will give the veteran players that are able to beat the AI now a much more interesting game. In addition, there are a couple of new modes of play that should test the skills of even the best DW players.
Regards,
- Erik
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:14 am
by ehsumrell1
Hopefully Erik, your information may 'soothe some of the savage beasts' of late! Thanks for
the heads-up. [:)]
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:46 pm
by Beag
ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
I'll comment briefly here to note that a very significant amount of time has been spent during the development of Distant Worlds: Shadows
Gotcha!
Now we already know the expansion name [8D]
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:07 pm
by ASHBERY76
I think A.I suffers from some game design issues like the bloated economy and not understanding mass mobilization of ships that one can do when you have 20,000,000 space cash in the mid game stage onwards.Spies like mentioned are also not used well and the diplomatic,trade and growth system can also be exploited far too easily.
I have no interest in giving the A.I massive cheats as it kills the game thematic.Those Atuuk's are ment to be thick.
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:47 am
by Erik Rutins
Yes, it's Distant Worlds: Shadows, which is a reference to the "Age of Shadows" in the Distant Worlds universe [8D]
Regards,
- Erik
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:38 am
by hewwo
YES more difficulty stuff! awesome!
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:58 pm
by Satosky
I'm hoping for some ravenous space vikings and looking forward to the next expansion. [;)]
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:51 am
by jpwrunyan
Eriks posts above gave me a warm feeling. That was the exact info I needed to go from leary to optimistic re: the next expansion.
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:55 am
by hewwo
I also hope they look at the problem of too much money at the end of the game, as this seems to me to be more of a design flaw that you can't fix by having the AI work/cheat better.
RE: Game to easy?
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:11 pm
by Shark7
ORIGINAL: hewwo
I also hope they look at the problem of too much money at the end of the game, as this seems to me to be more of a design flaw that you can't fix by having the AI work/cheat better.
A tweak of costs and colony upkeep would most likely fix the money problems.