AI --- Whats Going on???

Whats going on with the AI...on beginner setting the AI was able to create 150+ ships and colonize 40+ planets showing strength in the area of 300k-400k.

All in only 100-200 turns. I had 5 planets and 12 ships...my power was 85k.

Is there something wrong with the settings for beginner level?

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Do you mean 1 AI or all the AI combined have 40 planets? I haven't played on beginner but that sounds buggy regardless of how inexperienced you are. On normal they seem to play at a fairly slow pace. Hard to believe 1 AI could be that far ahead of you, but it's hard to believe you only have 5 colonies after over a 100 turns. Have you ever played before? 

At this stage of the beta they seem to mainly research military and they are always broke, regardless of level. You need to colonize faster and if you have some credits you can buy all of the AI ships fairly cheap. That will fix your power level but I would start another game (try normal) and see if you can stay even with the AI on colonies 

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Largest Map setting, all available races in play.

Also, not a beginner...been playing games like this since the original CIV 

Will start over and hope this is a bug.

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Well, 40 for 5 races is about 8 vs your 5 that's not so bad if you had a bad starting location, but still sounds like a bug for the beginner level.

 

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The AI has great boni atm ?!? But you will overcome them in mid game usually if u know what ur doin!

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Franco...LOL each AI had 40 plus planets and 140 plus ships each!

All of them were well over 200k power

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Whats going on with the AI...on beginner setting the AI was able to create 150+ ships and colonize 40+ planets showing strength in the area of 300k-400k.

All in only 100-200 turns. I had 5 planets and 12 ships...my power was 85k.

Is there something wrong with the settings for beginner level?
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what was the star habitability like i usually have around 50 planets by turn 100 but have about 80% of planets at habitable 

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stephen3

without any specifics, about start-up settings/the actual current turn/initial generated map/usage of custom ship designs/modded files/etc..., it is very hard to make any statement about whether there is a problem with the AI level and/or compare it to the game play results of another player.

What i normally do is make a save in the first turn before i do anything, and make (and keep) a save at regular intervals (or when something weird happens). This can help in tracking down any problems. If you have got a first turn save and your current save then post links to those here. With those someone (SD or a forum member) can take a look at the problem, by loading the saves, or even try to replay them.

Since everything is stored in the save file, you do not have to upload any modded files/ship designs.

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Thecw,

I don't have a 1st turn save, but going forward I will practice this. As to help better debug the game.

As for the settings, everything was set to default except for map size to largest playable now and all AI to beginner.

I feel this was a random bug that may not happen again or only every-so-often. I have a 2nd game that I'm working on.

It will take a couple days for me to see h ow it works out. (I do not have a 1st turn save for the new one...my next game I will since "Thecw" gave me the idea.) 

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I'm curious as to why you only have 5 planets after 100 turns?  Were there not very many habitable ones nearby?

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or to counter, blanket star bases around ur planets with carrier modules, 1 cap. Ship, and 1 carrier for defense, with a  ton of friendly buffs. Its a solid.anti fleet defense against ai's