12-11-2002 20:52									#1
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Hey Gang,

Since I'm really only looking at this expansion from the SP side of things, especially for these new play modes, can the AI actually play a good game?

I've heard, for example, the AI has ONE tactic in Regicide which is to leave his king in the capital city and defend it all to heck. Not a bad tactic in itself but painful if it NEVER varies from this. Does the AI ever move its King to clever hiding places?

	14-11-2002 01:53									#2
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Anybody out there?

	14-11-2002 01:58									#3
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To be honest, most of the new modes were designed for multi-player to enable quicker games than the traditional long single-player type game.

	14-11-2002 03:10									#4
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I think that the AI plays them very predictably and conservatively. As such, I think that they are easier than the traditional game.

	14-11-2002 03:32									#5
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Take Elimination. Multiple times I've seen the AI plop down a city guarded by one spear when I have 4 WC's, swords, whatever ancient attack unit you can think of.

	14-11-2002 04:10									#6
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Agreed, the new modes are for human competition.

I don't think the AI was adjusted much (if at all) to cope with them.

	14-11-2002 04:29									#7
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IIRC it was mentioned on one of the chats, that these were not really ment for SP.

( or in a combination with human versus human,...)

	14-11-2002 12:37									#8
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quote: Originally posted by notyoueither Agreed, the new modes are for human competition. I don't think the AI was adjusted much (if at all) to cope with them.

Does this include Victory Locations???

Thanks,

Oz

	14-11-2002 17:58									#9
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Soren definitely mentioned at some point that the modes would be available for SP, but that the AI would NOT be modified in any way to deal with the different victory conditions. So the leader-bunker-mentality is probably going to be the norm for the AI in Regicide games.

	14-11-2002 20:15									#10
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That's a pity but you can choose regicide/Mass. In this case the ai is able to let one in the capital, the rest is bunkered in other cities. Much better.