General Playing help

Whats your build order?

One approach is
>Cloaky bot factory (set to produce 1 con, 5 glaives, 1 con, 5 warriors.)
>the move commander onto building 1 mex nearby
> then link the mex with the spot for the next mex with solars (so 2 or 3 solars)

Once the first con is out get it to building an LLT on one approach, if you have a more spread out starting base two LLT's.

Continue linking your mexes building solars and mexes around your starting plot, once that is done move to a nearby plot and keep building.

The con after building the two LLT's should either move on to help the factory produce glaives for raiding the enemies mexes, or defending.

Or the con can move onto building radar dish.

by this time the second con should be out so that could build the radar.

The warriors make superb anti glaives but i know other people continue building glaives.

After that its kinda dependant on what the enemy has set up.

Remember that if you have4 radar to them you can out range LLT's with (the white artillery like unit fromteh cloaky bot plant) or you can out last them with Zeus' (their stun + hp allows them to take down LLT's only having one unit in 5 come to 1/3rd hp.

Of course this is all just one approach.

In my experience the best defense against CAI's early scouts is a single missile tower very early on. Then pump out some units to defend/scout/attack after getting a con to help build up your economy.

Here are a few tips for playing the CAI
> build a defender to cover a wide area(entrance routes to your base, mexes, factory)
> raid the CAI. If he killed 2 of your mexes then kill 2 of his. This will prevent him from expanding and gaining the advantage when you're rebuilding.
> use artillery(preferably not EMP). The CAI has a tendency to porc. This means that it is wide open to artillery strikes. Artillery naturally is affective against static defense so make good use of it.

Typically(on a small map), I will attempt to control a hill or another advantage point next to this enemies base. From here I shell the enemy's base into powder. I prefer a hill because it slows enemy units down so you can destroy them. One more thing, always be sure to mix some units in with you're artillery for defense.

one thing that drives me crazy about CAI is the fact that as soon as it places a factory, there's already a set of units it will build and each of those constructors will each instantly start building(sometimes more factories).

I don't think an human can even think that quickly, and although CAI can be "prevented" to an extent it builds so much so fast that it makes the game ore annoying then fun when you are at the 1.25 hour mark.
in fact, I usually give up after that 'cause it starts getting ridiculous. :P

there should be a short delay that randomizes between 1 and 20 seconds between actions. ;)

>I don't think an human can even think that quickly

I've been playing a lot of Starcraft 2 lately. The pros hit 400 actions per minutes during big fights.

against CAI, I start with a shield fac and spam some dirtbags, then, self destruct, this will slow down cai

B-b-but it's so nice replying to people who live in the past!

quote: one thing that drives me crazy about CAI is the fact that as soon as it places a factory, there's already a set of units it will build and each of those constructors will each instantly start building(sometimes more factories).

You can give builders a queue while they are still under construction. As for facplop, you can create a gadget that allows players to queue buildings and units for their first factory before the game starts.

Someone go do that now!

Widget means CAI has the ping advantage. What reason is there against a gadget?

the problem in the cai is the con spam,I played 3v3 with cai, and somehow after 20 min they focus on constructor spam, at the end, there are more constructor than building and fighting units