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[Borodin]

Originally Posted by Philos73

By the way I now found out that the Antagonizer patch handles maintenance a bit better than the original maintenance patch. There are less structures built by the AI on wrong squares than with the "maintenance" patch - still not perfect but within reasonable range. Does anyone know whether the maintenance patch appeared earlier than the Antag patch? That would have given the author of the Antag patch the possibility to check the maintenance part in the other patch.

Last time I spoke with the developers (admittedly several years ago, at an ancient E3 convention), they told me the antagonizer patch was the latest.

[Oskatat]

planets from the AI are still badly managed, research badly planned and ships badly designed. As mentioned, as soon as you can make more than a few ships, it's usually a cakewalk. It does depend on the race you choose though. The research or construction bonus races tend to be easier to play (chamanchy or something, and the cloud thingies), while some don't have a useful special ability