Probably not doable because aparently the AIs were tuned to work with their strenghts and weaknesses and precoded personalities
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#49 by Archimagus Saturday, March 18, 2006 7:22:15 PM I amsure it is covered in another thread somewhere. . . but what is the problem with tech trading and why would you want to dissable it? Some people dont like the "run away" tec tradeing that goes on
1) its offten the most overlooked custom build because its too easy just to use the provided scout,(which is only realy good for sweeping the map IMO) but most people dont think that its worth the risk to put up a single 1 hit hull as a sensor platform, Bascialy the game mechanics dont diferentiate between a 1 hit platform and a medium cruiser hull, the sensor platform is going to go down unescorted to anything that outguns it, and anything that can ou
here are a couple of things I have been doing in my game that seem to work surprisingly well 1) AWAC/SWAC (Space Warning And Control, (yes I played SFB back pre doomsday) hulls , basicaly this is one of my early builds, take a Cargo hull, stick enough sensor on it to get range 10 sensor sweeps, and send it crawling to the boarder, a couple of them are usualy all I need to see deep into the neibors terriroty, often giving me several turns to
I think the diference is that Mr Shatner has enough independant income from his residuals and side agreements he made when he first did his shows and his investments that he can cherry pick his jobs when he feels like working.