when i played my first game the AI only sends out one colony ship at a time, two times they got stuck the AI wouldn't send a new one until i destroyed each one. this made the game super easy, and i think the loraxoids are normal difficulty...

why is this? why do they send one at a time? why do they send them so far and then get stuck?

iloverushandledzepp wrote on Tue, 15 April 2014 18:26

when i played my first game the AI only sends out one colony ship at a time, two times they got stuck the AI wouldn't send a new one until i destroyed each one. this made the game super easy, and i think the loraxoids are normal difficulty...

why is this? why do they send one at a time? why do they send them so far and then get stuck?

The AI strategy is limited. Here is some more info

AI Race Specs by Wumpus
Article Library Computer AI section
Computer players

Robotoids - Hyper Expansion
Turindrones - Jack of all Trades
Automitrons - Inner Strength
Rototills - Claim Adjuster
Cybertrons - Packet Physics
Macinti - Alternate Reality

where is the loraxoids? they are SS

what are the following ai races supposed to be exactly?

Turindrones
Rototills (alien farmers plows?)
Macinti (alien bacteria?)

iloverushandledzepp wrote on Wed, 16 April 2014 05:42

Robotoids - Hyper Expansion
Turindrones - Jack of all Trades
Automitrons - Inner Strength
Rototills - Claim Adjuster
Cybertrons - Packet Physics
Macinti - Alternate Reality

where is the loraxoids? they are SS

That listing contains a small error: there's no JoaT AI. Their PRTs are:

Macinti: AR
Turindrone: SS (Super Stealth)
Robotoid: HE
Cybertron: PP
Rototill: CA
Automitrons: IS

You don't choose AI racenames at game start, you can only choose AI types. Your Loraxoids probably were Turindrones, but other games may have a different AI type also named Loraxoid.

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what are the following ai races supposed to be exactly?

Turindrones
Rototills (alien farmers plows?)
Macinti (alien bacteria?)

See above. Also, only the HE and AR AIs like to expand and colonize at speed. The others like to sit and expand just a bit, and thus pose only a modest challenge to human players. The PP AI likes to shoot packets that might be dangerous until it runs out of minerals. The SS AI has a penchant for surprise attacks and ambushes. And that's pretty much all. If you want a challenge, try a Robotoid or Macinti AI: their colonizers have never been known to be slow!

I mean what kind of alien are they? Now I know rototills are some kind of rotating machine

For a quick round of "colonizer shootemup" play a small uni against the HE AI. You lose if they manage to land on any planet closer than 120 lys to your HW.