
*Da Borg AI*     13/05/00

Da Borg! AI useable with TA TACC UH BY and more specifically OverseerHack.

To install simply make sure all .txt files end up in the folder TOTALA\AI 


A non-cheating AI ceated by Da Overseer! 
That has been specifically tweaked for OverseerHack within which it plays its strongest game.
It is highly advised that for the best challenge you play this AI with OverseerHack, without using nuke silos and using TAM with either the KroggyComm OR AirComm Mutators switched on, and/or play more than one ai at a time.
please note this ai does not have Seabattle or hover profiles.

These are the suggested standard ai battle ingame settings.

Energy			:1000
Metal			:1000
On Commanders Death	:Game Continues
Location		:Random
Mapping Mode		:Unmapped
LOS			:True
Difficulty		:Hard

OverseerHack/Da Borg! is the culmination of over 2 years work. 

I bought TA and TACC on the first day of their respected releases in the U.K.
I began tinkering with it shortly after and incidently ever since.

Da Borg! was originally created for original TA then adapted for TACC then most recently overhauled and adapted for Overseerhack.
So yes it plays extremely well in almost all environments.As soon as another non-cheating AI becomes its proven equal on OTA TACC UH or OverseerHack and is released in TAM format I will rescript it or release its unaltered TA+TACC code ... 
All rivals will be assimilated ...lol !

Its creation started because my friends and I could sometimes only get three pc's to my house for LAN play.
Lugging monitors around can be tricky.Three player TA games become very quickly unpleasant for one person ....tee hee.
Ai's were notoriously bad at that time so no-one wanted to go with the AI.
So it was decided that the best player ..that being myself should ally with an AI and take on my 2 friends.
That was fun until slowly over time my friends developed both their general TA skills and their respective AI killing skills.
It was then that I began playing with the AI code.Over time it slowly became stronger and stronger until eventually there wasnt a non-cheating AI that hadnt been assimilated.Then I released it on my friends who were by now veteren TA players. 
Each time they managed to beat it I would rescript the code until eventually it Assimilated them also.
It was quite funny when the transition from 'noone wanted to ally with the ai' to 'everyone wanted to ally with the ai' occured.

I knew then that Da Borg! AI had been born.

Its sole purpose :
To boldly go where no AI had gone before ... and to strategically and tactically assimilate anyone or anything in its path.

In its current incarnation with OverseerHack ..... none of my friends have taken a game off of it.
So for now my scripting *smirk* is laid to rest  ..... 

Do you have what it takes to beat Da Borg! in a fair fight on an AI friendly map .... 

Or will you too be Assimilated like those who tried before you !

Download OverseerHack plus *Da Borg!AI* 
The balanced epic TA Total Conversion and the ultimate non-cheating assimilating AI.
It takes TA almost to its limits:469 units and 244 weapon ids out of a maximum of 512/255.
Download from: http://www.madasafish.com/~overseerhack 
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED !

Anyone who wishes to use my weightings and limits as a base for their own AI may do so, as long as they credit myself and Da Borg! AI as the base. They must also include my e-mail address: Overseerhack@Madasafish.com 
and the URL of Da Overseers! Domain http://www.madasafish.com/~overseerhack as a contact address for anyone interested in gaining a copy of Da Borg! AI/OverseerHack.

Thanks go to:

Quitch(y) (quitchy@yahoo.co.uk) 
for providing an additional portal and quadrant for Da Borg! AI to warp through:
AICentral (http://www.planetannihilation.com/taec/queller/)and the hosted Non-cheating AI Only unit packs found there.

Immerman for the Amazing TAM!
(http://www.annihilated.com/quantum/) 

Cavedog (http://www.cavedog.com)
for the best strategy game available for the over last 2 years and counting.

Always try to remember to pause the game and take a break if playing an epic game of TA.
Your good health is more important than a mere game even if that game does *rock*.

Now prepare yourself commander!
The first drop ships have already entered the atmosphere.
You know heavy casualtys must have been sustained by the planetary defence systems.
Your on your own, the com systems no longer function.
The crackle of radar interference indicates Jammers are already being deployed. 
The recent electrical storm has been replaced by a hazy unease.
Your troups turn towards you committed, loyal but now uncertain.
Their future as does yours now hangs in the balance.
You can almost taste the coming battle.
It lies bitter in the air.
Darkness chokes at the twightlight sky.
Da Borgs Commander is seen briefly on perimeter cameras.
Like your father before you.
Its presence here an insult to your intellect.
The 'patterning' has begun again.
History repeats itself once more.
The dial of life turns full circle.
Assimilation is inevitable.
Resistance is futile.  
But resist you must.

Da Overseer ! 

13/05/00.



