Tried a game on hard and a game on unfair...hard is easy just like it was in original v1.82, but unfair was also much tamer...difficult to say if it is the same as hard from v1.80, only played one game, but it's certainly close...it would seem this is probably what's best for everyone, newbies get much more even stepping stones while vets still have a decent level that's cheating isn't too obvious...

I'll try a few more on unfair, and see how cruel and vicious are...so far so good though..

I tend to agree with Sel's conclusions. Unfair isn't the spam machine it used to be. I have yet to try anything above unfair but with Easter weekend off from work I should get a chance to do more testing.

Could we get the before and after values for the AI resource bonus at each level? Just curious what the spread is.

Awesome!

I'll give it a whirl over the Easter weekend.

I don't see, why they do change something here and there, but give us no sliders to set the value we prefer. I for my part tested the ridiculous mode (one harder than hard) and i was spammed with low friggs on nearly every planet i conquered.

Because i play with pirates enabled, we were bidding like hell and it lost almost all of them. But after a few minutes, pirates were friend of it and so i got them all. So with pirates and a mass spam of low friggs (and some BS) it finished its game ender cannon and its titan and i finished taking this as a victom for me, because of cheating in a way i do not tolerate.

With this rules for me, i now win every game after a real short time, because of over-cheating. Might it be a good hint for this programmers to view some replays to laught with me?

So i see no reason to let the patch enabled and set steam to do not patch any more. Many thanks for this bad try.

For long term, this game has none, as it is not customable to balance it for personal use. So they should work on this, not on a wrong named ridiculous mode after a soft hard mode.

And before breaking the SI (scripted/hardcoded intelligence (it's not a AI in my opinion as it is not able to learn)), they should fix some of the pathing problems, the stuck of titans on jump if area is blocked from ships and reenable the scout anti mining operation (auto ability), as this feature was active in the early times of SINS. And for sure, they should fix the one core load of the game.

Why i have to disable core one usage and reenable it after a while to get it better balanced (the game becomes slow because one core is at max on a 17% system load (on a 8 core system))?

I wasn't logged in, but you made me log in to post to your awful post...

1. Are you even able to fight Hard to begin with? Sounds like you need more training before taking on Unfair.

2. How else do you suppose they can make an harder AI? A way that preferably does not need a ton of coding to be re-done or newly made.

3. Have you heard of mods? You should check them out...Or you know, create your own.
Also there are a ton of options you can set already(Agree there could be another like no titan/no superweapons) and the amount of cheating an AI does.
Not to mention there is PVP if you want equal opponents.

4. I don't even know what you mean...

5. This game is made for single-core, not dual or quad or whatever. They have already stated often enough making it multi-core at this point is kind of useless.
Maybe in Sins 2(IF it ever gets made) it will be multi-core but Trinity/Rebellion...I don't think it will ever happen. 

Happy Easter Ya'll!

I fully agree 

What in the actual fuck? Does this cover just Rebellion or all the Sins games from 2008? 

And i thought, those cca 300 hours i played the game myself, is a LOT. Its my fav game after all...

Well, Rebellion has been out for cca 2 years and 2 months, give and take, including beta, under assumption you had it back then already...that is cca 780 days... 1631/780 = 2,1 hours per day....

you have my respect.

Any chance of the feed button getting updated?

Not realy, the gap between Hard and the next level is a little bit strange...

But as an other poster already wrote, how will you force the AI to play better without cheating as hell?

As i play supreme commander forged alliance, there is a mod out, where i can level the cheat level by my own, means, i have to set a cheatlevel in 0,25 multiplier steps. This would help better to find a personal best point.

With defined levels the programmer dictates how to play the game, with sliders in soft steps, the player does...

Actually, the Hard from v1.80 is now too easy, so maybe the Hard AI can return to how it was in v1.8, and the Unfair can stay the way it is now. I think that makes more sense, the steps are still less drastic.