User:Pumpkin

I mainly reproach the wiki to be a collection of strategy guides that makes finding facts and mechanisms quite difficult. This page is a proposal of a reorganization of the AI War wiki's main page that would highlight facts and put strategy aside (not removed, but put at the end, after the facts).

Overview

AI War: Fleet Command is the flagship video game of Arcen Games, first released in 2009. Up to eight players battle a pair of rampant artificial intelligences once used by warring human superpowers, in the aftermath of the AI's near complete victory over humanity. Human players must avoid the notice of AI powers while preparing for an attack against the AI homeworlds. The game takes place on a procedurally generated galaxy map with between 10 and 120 planets in a genre splicing mix of Real-Time Strategy, 4X, and Tower Defense.

Game Setup

• Minor Factions
• Player Role (helper, champion)
• AI Plot
• AI Types
• Difficulty
• Auto AI Progress
• Map Style
• Map Size

Objectives

• Explore with Scouts
• Capture some territory for Metal, Energy and Knowledge
• Gain more power by capturing ARS and Core Fabricators and by Hacking
• Reduce AIP by destroying Data Centers and Co-Processors
• Destroy the CSG networks
• Invade and destroy the two AI Homeworlds

Players can refer to in-game objective list (accessed through "Message Log") which is dynamically updated during play.

Economy

• Metal
• Energy
• Knowledge
• Hacking
• Supply
• AI Progress

Ship mechanisms

(the subtopics wouldn't be linked from the front page, they're just ideas for chapters in main pages)

• Mark Level
• Ship Cap
• Attack
  • ammunition types and immunity (old page)
  • attack multiplier (hull bonus)
  • armor (also armor piercing, etc) (old page and... wtf? this)
  • area of effect
• Health
  • repair
  • self attrition
  • self damage
  • regeneration
  • vampirism
• Hull Types [REVAMP]
• speed
  • speed boost
  • gravity effect
  • engine damage
  • paralysis
  • teleport
• cloaking
  • tachyon (Tachyon Beams)
  • cloaking booster
  • cloaking super-booster
• range
  • radar dampening
  • close-combat
  • retreat range
• reclamation
• scouting
• swallow
• boosts (?) (attack, speed, armor, ...)
• (mobile) shield (?) (sh.bearer, riot control, ...)
• capturable / captured on planet ownership change
• Immunities [TODO]

AI Mechanisms

• AI Progress
• Wave [WIP]
• Cross Planet Attacks [REVAMP]
• Reinforcement (also revamp AI Reinforcement)
• Special Forces
• Threat
• Strategic Reserve
• Exogalactic Strikeforce
• AI Tech [REVAMP]
• AI Unlock [REVAMP]
• Planet Mark [TODO]
• AI Plot
• Reprisal [WIP]
• AI Homeworld
• Alert

Units

Shared Units

• Fleet Ships [TODO]
• Starships
• Golems
• Spirecrafts [TODO]
• Fortresses
• Mines
• Force Fields [TODO]

Human Units

• Turrets
• Warheads

AI Units

• Guard Posts
• Guardians
• Dire Guardians
• Planetary Subcommander
• Economical Units
• Devices

Human Economical Units

• Metal Harvester
• Energy Collector
• Matter Converter
• Science Lab
• Hacker
• Space Dock
• Starship Constructor
• Mercenary Space Dock
• Missile Silo
• Mobile Space Dock
• Engineer Drone
• Remains Rebuilder
• Cleanup Drone
• Colony Ship
• Orbital Command Station
• Human Cryogenic Pod
• Home Human Settlement
• Rebelling Human Colony

Human Logistical Units

• Advanced Warp Sensor
• Harvester Exo-Shield
• Intra-Galactic Warp Gate
• Mobile Builder
• Neinzul Regeneration Chamber
• Rally Post
• Transport
• Zenith SpaceTime Manipulator

AI Special Military Units

• Hunter/Killer
• AI Carrier
• AI Beachhead (Plot)
• AI Galactic Control Ship (Showdown Device)
• Avenger (Plot)
• AI Mothership (Fallen Spire)
• Core Starship (???)

Races

• Humanity: only playable race in AI War, mankind was nearly exterminated by the AI and is now seeking an opportunity to land a deadly strike at its opponent.
• The AI: seemingly created by Humans during their civil war, the AI now seems preoccupied in another galaxy with grander design than Human's remains extermination.
• Zenith: eons old alien race only represented by its technological remains and scattered beings.
• Neinzul: insectoid aliens of eternal children with extremely short life span.
• Spire: mineral alien specie whose empire sprawl many distant galaxies.

Design

[all links from the current Design Philosophy list]

Strategy Guides

[collection of the external guides' links and general strategies like all the current offense/defense/general gameplay/intro topics]

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