AI War: Fleet Command is a real time strategy game that is a unique and does a creative spin to the traditional RTS formula. It's no ordinary RTS. AI War is all about co-op comp stomps where you can play solo or with other people against the AI.

Now that might sound like any RTS can do this but what makes AI War special is that you don't start out on equal footing to the AI. You and your co-op buddy are the small fries and there is an AI aggressiveness meter(or as the creator put it a Ragometer) in which if you expand aggressively too fast and the AI gets more aggressive.

Also based on the aggressiveness meter are waves. Very much like tower defense games, the AI factions get free waves that come in when you reach a certain threshold. You will need to build defense structures to help defend against these overwhelming forces.

The AI is really good in this game. There are many cool little things and units that you have to play it for yourself to discover it. AI War may not look much but this is pure awesome GAMEPLAY. It is by far the best RTS this year(not many of them)

Screenshots




Many similarities to Sins of a Solar Empire, but this is still its own type of game. There is a demo you can try out on Steam and hosted on other sites:
http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_buy.php

The developer, Chris Park has been improving this game ever since releasing it. He just released 2.0 on Steam on October and there are plans for more free DLC for it. In fact I must commend Chris Park on an amazing job of keeping the community informed of plans. He has documented all the milestones as well as future plans for AI War.

I need to reiterate this...this game is pure awesome strategy gaming. If you are looking for fancy graphics, you will find none here. Once you get hooked to the gameplay, the looks wont matter.

Steam currently has it on sale for USD$9.99 until 3rd Jan(the actual price is USD$19.99), so try to get it now.

EDIT : Oh yeah...you can build thousands of units

DOUBLE EDIT : Also expansion The Zenith Remnant is dated to be released on 12th jan. Don't hold your breath on the release date though.

This post has been edited by frags: Jan 8 2010, 10:06 PM

lol l4d RTS?

In a way yes. But because it's a strategy game, it's more flexible than L4D. It can offer different experiences for different people based on their preference.

This game has more similarities to Supreme Commander actually.

Hum, recommended by frags and it's on offer.... tempting

I read you talk about this game in some other threads before (I think with H@h@ or Cheese, can't remember)

But do you have to have a co-op person to play? or can you play solo?

Nope you can play solo. If you're a SupCom fan, you'll be familiar with the basics of the economy of this game. I suggest if anyone is interested, look through the video tutorials first(on youtube, you can find links on the game site) and then give the demo a shot. It's only 1 hours trial but if you get it, I promise you, you'll be hooked.

Ok, bought it, 6 bucks is very cheap, I am in family now so I don't really have time to try it out now.

A mix of SupCom and Sins cant be bad for that price, and it's a small game from a one guy team, good to help also

You can read the raving opinions of fellow strategy game enthusiasts:
http://www.crispygamer.com/columns/2009-08...-different.aspx
http://www.crispygamer.com/features/2009-1...e-strategy.aspx
http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/ai-war/review...005102715123063
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/08/28...t-1/#more-16747
http://pc.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=18671

If you're wondering if what they say is true....YES, it is awesome!

This post has been edited by frags: Jan 1 2010, 08:38 PM

6 dollars? Where do they have it for that cheap? Kinda interested already.

Hum, I am in Europe right now so maybe different deals than Msia but AI Fleet War was showing for 6 euros here, so means 6 usd for US based.
You could try to use a proxy

No. It's still 9.99 USD. It's just a different price in Euro.

Ha alright, from my experience sometimes Steam just don't "convert" and 6 usd price makes a 6 euros price (which is VERY different.... but that's how Steam do...)

Just did the basic tutorials, seems interesting yar, the "look" of the ships reminds me a bit of some old school games like Master of Orion 2 and all

PLaying through with 2 Easy AI's. Solo with 80 planets. The game's really challenging so I need to go slow with the AI difficulty.


Whats cool about AI War is that all the resources and your initial builds all done for you in the starting planet. So I already have a basic economy up for Mark 1 units. 3 resources, crystal and metal work pretty much like in Supreme Commander and Energy which your units and buildings use.


Basic base is in there. Probably need a couple of scouts to send to different planets.


Without a scout, I have no idea what a planet holds, even the resources...no freakin idea. So first priority is scout. But here's the deal, I need to prepare some defense to be safe. WHo knows what the AI will do when it detects my presence.


EDIT : Also the best way to prepare defense it to build turrets near wormholes in the planet. This is the tower defense feel of the game I was talking about. But at the start need to keep a fleet just in case. Since your home planet orbital command is vital. Lose that and you lost.

This post has been edited by frags: Jan 3 2010, 11:05 PM

So I've built defense around this wormhole(this is where the enemy will come from). As you can see this one enemy ship got hit by a tractor beam turret and the normal turrets will deal with it.



The thing how Research works is very different. Research points are finite resources you get from planets. Which means this is the last 3000 research points I have. I'm saving the 3,000 research points for emergency. in case I see something from the AI i need to counter(saw one starship in the next system)



Just like in SUpcom, I use engineer to speed up constructions. Here I've got my near 400 unit fleet. Running out of metal, so I'll need to colonise a new planet. Have a target now. Next time, I'll be sending in this mark 1 fleet(all first tier units). Somehow I feel it's still going to be a tough fight and I might lose.


To be continued...

Murdoch looks like a good choice, decent amount of metal and crystals.



Built 5 scouts that will act as decoys. You see, the enemy might build defenses that can hold your ships(like tractor beams). So by sending in scouts in first, their tractor beams will catch the decoy ships and most of your fleet will get through. But I need to time it properly.



Low on energy. it's time to build a tier 3 power plant. Will do great to build reinforcements.



The invasion begins!



This is where AI War is unique. The system is huge and I need to clear the entire system to make it safe for the colony ship. Notice the countdown timer on the left of the screen. Piss off the AI enough and it will send a wave to your home planet(or maybe some other planet). You need to make sure you have defenses. I can handle this one.



Time to start building the colony ship. Target sector still not completely secure but building ahead.



Planet secured. Only thing in this planet is this astro train station thing with 80,000,000 HP. These thing let out these trains(which have a million HP) that move around the galaxy and damages turrets and defences. They are near indestructible. They don't do huge damage but overtime if you don't keep an eye, you could loose some resources to them. Think of these like the sand worms in Dune 2.


To be continued...

That would be me (It was more of me trying to explain the concept of this game properly)... But I'm a rather "stupid" gamer at heart (OTT: I'm playing DA on Normal and I actually use tactics) and so though I love the idea of these types of games but suck really bad at them (The demo seemed unbelievably daunting to me)

He he he yar, I like this kind too but sometimes also lack the time to really explore all of them.
Will be back from family soon so will have more time to play (and will be back to desktop instead of laptop ^^) but high competition between all the new games I bought during Steam Xmas.

Still in the middle of the Intermediate Tutorial (which is more of a mini-campain-tutorial), still find the UI cluncky a bit but not so bad.

The video tutorials on youtube were quite helpful and might have helped if you had a look at it before jumping the demo. Also demo is time limited(1 hour).

The UI looks clunky, but when you get into it, you'll find its pretty good. Its got the same empire tree UI of Sins of A Solar Empire(similar). You can use that to select your orbital platform to give build instructions instead of scrolling to it on the map. The only problem is the UI, the Art is a bit on the low end(low resolution and not much detail). This might lead to having difficulty finding or differentiating between different ships(I always have some trouble finding the orbital command). If you want to switch to the galaxy map, just use tab. Thats the faster way.

Ctrl and shift helps a lot too. You can build manufacutrer on all spots just with a single clck(ctrl click) and shift clicking to place multiple copies.

IINM, it was 4 hours (I could only last 2 hours before my brain fainted)... So... yeah.

I've already come to terms with this... I'm not "strategy" material... I like it, but not play it.

Getting old?

I had that problem when I played Hearts Of Iron once, could not handle that much stress. More stressful than work. hahahaha

Will get this game once I had enough of Sins of Solar Empires.

I wouldn't say its because I'm old... but rather, now that I'm old I realize that my love for strategy is just my idle folly

*sigh*

That being said, I'm now more open towards anything and EVERYTHING turn-based.

Building of forces. Researching the dreadnought.



Base built with starship contructor. It takes 53 minutes to build a dreadnought and 23,000 metal. There is obviously a problem here. Need more metal. The 30,000 metal seen here went to the construction of a new fleet.



Scouting the next system. Bad choice since the Ion cannon is an insta kill super weapons. Targeted a less dangerous system.



Trying a new strategy. Building transport vehicles to carry my army(100 units per vehicle). These will protect them from the tractor beams and turrets near wormholes.



Off to the targeted system. I may be a bit hasty with this....but I'm going with it.


This post has been edited by frags: Jan 6 2010, 08:41 PM

Well, Heart of Irons is pretty hard to get into to be honest but I do remember spending some awesome time on the 2nd one, its just pretty overwhelming at first. And I do admit it can be pretty boring to tune the productions/supplies/reinforcements/upgrades/consumer goods sliders pretty much all time (that was improved in HoI3 a bit though).

As for AI War, so far I am not used to the keyboard shortcut yar, getting slowly to it, not being efficient in using keyboard shortcut is one of my major issue in gaming in general actually, I am a clicker by instinct and in some games (some speedy rts or even WoW) it sometimes makes me way less efficient.

To get back to your screens frags, the transport ships seems pretty interesting to avoid blockades yar, I was actually wondering if later on the game would not end in a turtling issue? Since from my little understanding of the game and it's possibilities so far it seems to be doable to really make some systems or wormholes pretty much impassable to the AI. The turrets system coupled with force fields seemed to me like it could hold some pretty huge fleets for a while. Or is the AI really "smart" and will find holes to pass through?

Stuff like Stealth or these transports (and maybe some empty ones sent first as lures) seems interesting

Well you can't turtle since the objective is to destroy the homeworld of both the AI's. Depending on your setting, the AI progression will advance with time(increase 10 every 30 minutes for instance). The AI progression basically means the tech level, the number of ships etc. So if you stay back, you'll be facing a more difficult foe. BUT expand to fast and you piss off the AI and they swarm you.

Wormholes are choke points, you could easily hold a few ships back(As they could with you too). But a couple of hours in, you'll find yourself facing a fleet of thousands. Which no amount of turrets could help you with.

Splitting forces to take out to different areas.


The AI is good. Here they don't just rush towards my units. In fact, they hang around near guard posts and turrets to maximise their fire power. Going after them slowly depletes my fleet.


The AI sneaks past a few ships into my planet. Now the planet is virtually defenseless. No fleets here so I had to build a small fighter fleet. They go after my resources.


Looks like its going to be a tough fight for this planet. The enemy AI dances around the system...i grow tired of this irritating enemy. Built a dreadnought to help out.

To be continued...

The battles have taken a toll on my fleet. Now the enemy outnumber us. Time to retreat but...



Thought up a new strategy, using mobile contructors. These things allow you to build buildings/defences at planets that are not in your control yet. It means turtling in a corner of their planet. I've built a shield generator, and a couple of turrets to hold that position.



With the safe confines of the shield generator, now i can rebuild my force. Engineers can repair damaged ship. Now I can slowly get this planet into my control.


This post has been edited by frags: Jan 8 2010, 09:47 PM

AI continues to harass my planets.


Taming this planet is proving to be rather difficult. Time for maybe plan B. Built a missile silo. Will help the campaign in the future too so good idea to build one now.


Built a shield generator mark 2. Using this new strategy to reduce fleet loss. Using the shield generator(its a moving ship) to escort the fleet.


To be continued...

This post has been edited by frags: Jan 9 2010, 09:30 PM

This strategy seems to be working out well so far. It's still not perfect since every enemy shot damages the shield and reduces its size. Even two engineers constantly repairing the shield isn't enough to maintain the shield if I get too close. The key is to keep your distance until all the dangerous turrets(like tractor beams) are gone.



The AI reacts by pushing my temporary base hard with cruisers and bombers.



Tried to use lightning missiles to help out. It didn't work. It seems lightning missiles damage ships not stationary objects.



Just like in SupCom, I can shift click to change targets after a ship is taken care of. Here i use fighters to handle enemy cruisers(natural counter).



Final push to get this planet under my control. Brought in some reinforcements to make the job easier. This time this planets mine.


To be continued...

This post has been edited by frags: Jan 10 2010, 06:07 PM

Zenith Remnant expansion trailer. This should be out either tonight/tomorrow on Steam.



Why is this interesting? Chris seems to be adding at least some storyline to the game. I don't think it will have a single player mission based system, perhaps just a proper back story. But a more unique AI opponent seems like a nice change of pace.

The mark 2 shields aren't holding out as I would hope. It still gets used up when facing a large and powerful opponent. Need to research mark 3 and I'll stick to this shield technique. unfortunately ran out of research points. Which means I need to capture another planet.



Forces got beat up. Rebuilding forces at friendly planet. Now its time to attack.


Multiple groups make it easier to defeat tough enemy entrenched positions.


To be continued...

PS : I'm liking all the new changes made to the game. The AI now starts using engineers to rebuild destroyed defensive positions. Really irritating but it forces me to go for the orbital command all the time. Destroying orbital command has its bad side as it attracts all the AI ships in the planet.

Zenith Remnant looks awesome with a lot more stuff in the game now. Still haven't played a campaign with Zenith Remnant content but 3.0 has a lot of changes that vanilla game gets.

AI Fleet is currently going for USD9.99.

Good deal but I have too many games on my list as it is.

Yar, one question I had about the Steam version is are we getting all the patches too?

Because I don't remember an update for AI Fleet recently

yes there is a 3.0 patch for the steam version. You'll need to reenter your cd key when you start the game(when your game has been updated). But you don't need to worry. Arcen Games keeps all version updated with the same version. Maybe your game is already updated.

This post has been edited by frags: Jan 15 2010, 05:41 PM

Ha yar, I simply did not start it yet since the update. And since the game is small I probably did not see it downloading it.
The "View Update News" of Steam is also pretty useless most of the times.

Good to know about that, Steam not getting last updates (or getting them later) is one of the few bads points about it.

Too "busy" in GTA4 atm but this game is pretty interesting
The xpas seems also to add a lot but I think I will train more on the vanilla game first.

It is also on sale in Impulse.

Don't really like Impulse though, very clunky interface.

frags, have you tried the coop yet? Is it any good (mp-wise)?

Nope. I prefer to play with people from around here. I just joined their forums but I'm not sure if I can play with them considering the time differences.

Multiplayer is direct IP connection to the host and you can save your game. A pity since I can see how co-op would be awesome. Co-op is good since you have options to share or gift lots of things to your allies.

I was about to get it during the steam holiday sales, but noticed that there's already an expansion announced. Now i guess i'll wait for a bundle sale that includes the ori + expack.

The main attracting factor about the game for me is the coop and AI. Read the article about a coop game (sadly there's only part 1) on RPS and it sounded really fun.

This post has been edited by chiakm: Jan 17 2010, 12:45 AM

The vanila version of the game got a lot of new stuff added as well. In fact until now I can't even check the Zenith Remnant content since I want to finish the game in progress. You need to recreate a new campaign with Zenith Remnant stuff in it.

Besides. Don't just read about other people telling you how great it is...try it for yourself. The demo is now 3 hours time limit...and you can play unlimited campaign(each stopping at 3 hours mark). Even with the demo you can get a lot of fun with.

Even the expansion has a demo. But be quick since the current discount(if you plan on getting it) ends 18th/19th...thats soon....

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Added on January 17, 2010, 1:02 amThis is my progress after about 8 hours in. Still along way to go. Need to check out the south eastern corner to see if there is an AI home planet there.


Entered this planet to be conquered.


Unfortunately found this. This makes it a bad decision to take this planet. Enemy waves 3X more powerful? ermmm okay...Destroying it also makes the AI progress increase too much(by 100)...Planet should be ignored...time for a tactical retreat?


to be continued...

This post has been edited by frags: Jan 17 2010, 01:03 AM

Kinda stuck now with strong AI all around. Had to retreat to my planet. Now the AI attack me in force.


Looks bad but I might be able to hold out. Probably need to rethink how to capture the next AI planet. Hmmmmm maybe missile silo?


to be continued...

Not much people getting involved with this game hmmm

Week long sale on Steam:

AI War: Fleet Command and AI War: The Zenith Remnant 50% off.

AI War: Fleet Command @ USD9.99

AI War: The Zenith Remnant @ USD4.99

Yar, I got me the xpac, it's pretty cheap and I can play it later on when i got more time to dedicate to that game (it's not the game you can play 5 minutes or so)

Hmmm, should I get both of them?

USD15 for two of 'em seems to be very reasonable.

Or should I wait for further discounts.

Well, they have a trial dispo if I am not wrong so you might want to test it out first, it's quite special strategy game, quite far from normal RTS or even Sins, it's a bit of its one of its kind animal

Since it's week long, I'll see what's on offer during the weekend to make a decision.

Should be interesting because I sorta like Sins to some extent.

It's quite far from Sins really in the mechanisms, I would really say it's worth trying though.

Just not kind of game for anyone though.

I would say it's very SupCom like(the first supcom). ANd Zenith Remnant adds a lot to the game. New AI types, races, a merchant, ancient golems, you can find a trial for Zenith Remnant(either at the official site or in the game you purchase) if you want to see if the xpac content is worth it.

PS : If anyone gets this....WE NEED to try coop. SO please post here or PM me.

I thought Gormaz already have that game.

I'll wait for this weekend deal to make a decision.

Seems like an interesting game...I was hoping that Steam might have bundle the 2 together so there's even more discount...

Looks interesting. I wonder my 3 year old comp can handle it or not. Ehehe, need to contact someone to help me purchase adi.

It's a 2D game with 3D backgrounds. I'm sure your comp will be able to play it. You can download the demo to try it. It's only 100mb.

Had a feeling that this weekend deal gonna be Serious Sam HD.

As such, I have just bought AI War and its expansion.

Thing is, the game scale can go up to tens of thousands of units in each camps on bigger maps, so while the graphics are really not the issue, the simple amount of calculation can hog some lower systems.

But the guy making the game (yes, it's mostly done by one guy only) is improving performance pretty often, very good support for the game.

Frags: I am still pretty noob at it, I am still finishing the advanced tutorial, but could be willing to try out coop with someone more experienced to test it out.
But as usual I am in China so connectivity might be an issue, not sure how is the lag for that game

I like the amount of support the guy is doing for his baby, he is also pretty reactive for bugs/issues and really listen to the community

No problem. Whenever you want to try out coop. You can always PM me here.

Small download around 100mb or so.

Looks very complex and need quite a bit of time to learn how to play.

A bit hard to type the CD-key in Steam.

For the key, you got the "Copy to Clipboard" option on the Steam menu, then just paste inside AI, works like a charm ^^

Actually something I forgot to say was that AI Wars allows you to use your cd key to use on the non steam version. Yes you can unlock the non steam demo with the cd key you get buying it from Steam. Not sure if you can have both versions running though.

which version is d latest 1? nvm found out it is d zeneith..gonna grab tis later

This post has been edited by sai86: Apr 1 2010, 03:10 AM

That is indeed cool.

Probably can get run one game at the time.

Shouldn't be an issue.

However, AI War has Steam achievements.

hmm, I'm gonna wait this weekend deals and see how.

Well, I managed to finish my first map today. I put the AI at level 3 which ended up being way too easy (AI pretty much passive) but at least let me test more capabilities than the advanced tutorial. Was on 50 planets map, good length/strategy ratio I found. Took me around 7 hours to finish

Free Roam Defender mode is really awesome and I love how much micro-management it takes off your hands (especially for Engineers and Rebuilders).

I think this game is the first one where I see some really "smart" auto-mode that let you concentrate on the important things while handling the small craps like rebuilding mine fields or destroyed turrets.

Playing around more with some of the units was fun too:

- Parasites are really awesome for getting your some Mark 4 and Core units and basically sometimes finishing fights with more units than your started

- Mobile Repair Station can really make a difference in some tougher planets, engineers are just a bit too slow to repair lots of ships.

- I used one Golem, the Hive one which was really really really expensive to use but very powerful once fully loaded, it basically killed all the ships on the 2 AI core planets on its own (500 wasps = pwn). The other golems all seem to have some pretty big drawback though, I am not sure if they are really worth the cost/AI increase compare to a similar cost fleet or normal sheep. It crippled my economy for qutie a long time to bring it online and used a huge proportion of my energy, but I just wanted to try it out

- Zenith Power Generator are now on my very top priority list to grab (I got 2 in my map and they let me use the golem, otherwise impossible to have enough energy while still having some resource left)

I think I might try level 6 for next game, will be quite a bit step up but could be interesting. Lots of room to improve my resource management though, I usually ended up running out of resources for too long.

@frags: I think I will try to complete at least a couple more games before trying the Coop, which level of AI do you usually use?

Haven't been playing lately. But I normally stick with 6/7.

Just got it. Its tiem to play as soon as I finished my darned Dragon Age.

7 hours?!?!? I think RTS game suits my taste better...4X just takes too long.

Well, I tend to be a bit of a slow, methodical player so I always take longer than really necessary but usually "play it safe" (that was also my first game and I was playing around with the units/golem and all)
Yesterday my 2nd victory was after about 6 hours of game too, with a harder AI (lvl 6)

But yar, this game is not twitchy fast game anyway, it's another genre.

I told you this game was innovative. You see how brilliant the game is right? There are so many small things in it which shame many RTS games. I have no doubt that some AAA developer might copy some of the things in this game. This game deserves more attention really.

Yap, I totally agree, it's impressive really

I just started a Lvl 7 campaign and it's really a big jump from 6 to 7, I had to restart a few times on different maps to pull it out ( kept getting surrounded by level 4 planets that pretty much boxed me in, not exactly fun for a first game at that level)
The AI really start to harass you in the first 5-10 minutes, which is really surprising for a game that last so long.

The AI (the enemy's and your own units one) is really what separate that game from others. Like how your units on FRD mode separate themselves equally if two groups of enemy arrive and all, it's impressive
I read on the forum that the guy used fuzzy logic and some advanced AI behaviors, I studied that a bit during my uni time but it's the first time I see it being used in a real game.

I am finally on to a good start but took me about one hour just to make my home planet safe (I hate "immune to tractor beams" enemy ships...) and to take one of the neighbor planets.

I am still only taking Parasites as my special ships, I just find them too good at the beginning (when you have limited resource) and at the end (to get these yummy Core/IV ships). But they do cost quite a lot of energy which is not easy to pump at the beginning.

If some big AAA developer could bring out this kind of AI in another game, it could really be impressive

When I think about it, recently the two games that really impressed me are this one and Dwarf Fortress new release, both made by one guy team for their programming core.
These 2 guys programming skills put lots of people (me included) to shame really, go go Indies!

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Apr 3 2010, 04:17 PM

Got the game and its xpack. Gimme a bit more time to play around in SP and i'll join u guys for a coop.

This post has been edited by chiakm: Apr 3 2010, 05:38 PM

Ermmm I think I better play with Easy AI first maybe 3/4. I started a game with AI 7 and immediately got attacked before I built a fleet properly. LOL restart. Been a long time since I played this. Forgot the shortcut keys to build mines etc.

Yar, AI 7 really jump to your throat in the first few minutes, its not huge waves but it's quite problematic when you just getting started.

Have to spend more research on turrets at first than I spent on AI6.

Odd, Steam keeps installing DirectX everytime I start the game. Hmm, need to find tech support liao.

The game is a blast btw. Now fooling around in lvl4 AI.

You are using WinXP SP3 is it? I had the same problem last time. I think there might be a work around it. Check the forums.

Nope, Windows Vista SP1.

So far I don't have that issue, I am using Windows 7 64bit.

Try this:

http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,1892.0.html

Make sure you backup first before trying

Yeah, it worked.

There's a competition here:

http://www.indiegamenews.com/2010/04/new-i...ion-for-pc.html

They are giving away 5 copies of AI War and Zenith Remnant.

I r finish Dragon Age. Let me know when you guys want a co-op game. Imma go conquer this AI4 first.

I'm still trying to win my AI5 game. But if u guys are planning to start a coop, count me in.

Okay if you are interested, please set a day and time. Post here in this thread. May i suggest Friday 10pm?

My AI7 game is still pending, did not have much time to finish it.
I am pretty sure of winning but it would still take me quite a lot of time to mope the rest of it, really lots of enemy ships on the planets. Feels a little bit like a drag and less interesting, I think I prefer early game where you have to scout and sneak.

I would be up for a Coop too if there is room, friday 10pm could be alright for me, just might need to get ready to play a bit late at night, or to save the game and restart it at a later date, not sure we can do it in one sitting if starting at 10pm ^^

From what I read the AI gets also bit harder if there in coop, depending on how many human players there are. I am game for any AI level you guys wanna do, could be good to not start too high to get our feet wet.

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Apr 11 2010, 09:20 PM

I should be free on Fri nite if nth comes up. So it's 4 ppl if all goes well?

I should be good for Fri night too. Looks like I need to practice. =/

It's really more to try the coop mode than anything else seriously, would be quite curious how the AI plays differently with more people.

Edit: 16/04: tonight is on or not then?

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Apr 16 2010, 12:08 PM

Are we on or not?

I not yet finish my AI4 game. Damnit, I shouldn't have selected 80 planets map.

This post has been edited by Grif: Apr 16 2010, 04:35 PM

Nevermind we can take it easy for now. We could try out an easy AI. Even I haven't had enough practise to play a normal AI.

So 10pm tonight? How to meet?

I never tried the game MP yet but I believe we need the IP of the host no?

Hopefully I don't have issues or lag because I am in China, see how it goes anyway, it's for testing sake

One person host a game, the other use the Join Multiplayer game, use direct connect, enter their IP address. I'll post my IP address here later. We could communicate much easily if we used steam chat. So please post your Steam ID here. Mine's frags81.

This post has been edited by frags: Apr 16 2010, 05:12 PM

Steam ID: amozy

Your steam ID not nick. There is a difference. I can't find anyone with that ID. If you go to 'view my profile' in the steam client you will see something like this in the URL:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/frags81


The end of the URL is your steam ID.

Mine is gormaz

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Apr 16 2010, 09:33 PM

Oh that one. LOL, let me find.

I only see below though.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197980239668

Crap. Finally managed to get online. Crappy internet connection. Frags, how do i join ur game?

Whats your steam ID?

chiakm

Certainly had fun yesterday, even if the latency is high. When do you guys want a next round?