Which AI personalities you find more challenging?

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So there's aggressive, defensive, economist and researcher (i think i got it right) - based on your play which ones seem harder to you?

Also, I'm curious if anyone found that matching a personality to the strenghts of the race helps making it a bit harder as well. I'm thinking for my next game I'll have at least one of each race and match them to what I see as their strengths. So TEC would use economist AI, Advent will use defensive, and Vasari aggressive AI. Of course it's possible that I'm simply wrong about their strengths, but assuming I'm not, what do you guys think? Has anyone tried doing something like that?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Defensive is easy and boring to play against.

My fav is agressive. It keeps bugging me instead of letting me just grow. Is fun. :-)

I go for random anyway for most of the time. I like the surprise.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I'll jsut igve you my 2cents. The advent are imho the hardest to beat if you set them on hard with an emphais on research. They make it impossible to colonize anything. For a hard scenarios go a 4FFA as the Vasari against one of each. TEC Eco/Agg, Advent Research, Vasari Agg. Or if you realloy want to pound your head against the wall do a 4FFA against all advent with one research, the other agg, and the other eco. That will amke for a really really interesting match up. In fact that's what I'm about to do right now.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I can never tell the difference when playing random. They all run away and their worlds burn all the same.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I can never tell the difference when playing random. They all run away and their worlds burn all the same.
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Yeah I noticed that as well. It's funny because when I manually set the AI personalities I notice the differences, at least somewhat, but when using random they all seem completely the same. So either they "randomly" set themselves to the same personality or it's a psychological effect - i.e. when I know they're different I see that better :)

I'll jsut igve you my 2cents. The advent are imho the hardest to beat if you set them on hard with an emphais on research. They make it impossible to colonize anything. For a hard scenarios go a 4FFA as the Vasari against one of each. TEC Eco/Agg, Advent Research, Vasari Agg. Or if you realloy want to pound your head against the wall do a 4FFA against all advent with one research, the other agg, and the other eco. That will amke for a really really interesting match up. In fact that's what I'm about to do right now.
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That's interesting, I'll try that, though I think I'll go with medium difficulty first. I just recently moved from easy, after playing it for couple of weeks. :)

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Doesn't aggressive AI just spam cobalts? How challenging is that? I think the defensive AI spams the support vessel (repair cruiser), which is pretty bad too. The research AI probably offers the most challenge, with the most variety in unit selection.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
TEC + Economist = Pirate Raid Hell
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Haha, that could very well be the case.

Doesn't aggressive AI just spam cobalts? How challenging is that? I think the defensive AI spams the support vessel (repair cruiser), which is pretty bad too. The research AI probably offers the most challenge, with the most variety in unit selection.
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I remember in one game I had Advent set on aggressive and they attacked me with a cap ship with a decent number of disciples, fairly early on. It was unexpected, and they kept bugging me for a while after that (the cap ship ran away of course). However, by about midgame or so the game became pretty much the same as usual, and I didn't notice and spam of disciples.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
I think they all have their perks....I think research and economist might be more challenging ultimately, but it is good to have an aggressive AI out there to keep you on your toes. They force you to protect your conquests by constantly probing...but they are not that hard, because (at least with me) they lose a lot of ships in these raids.

None of the AI's are that challenging, unless they are teamed up against you.