Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell
 

Oh nice, I was always wondering that why was that spell so powerful. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell
 

As long as spellcasters will use damage spells instead of weak summons when they already have a horde of troops screening them I'll be happy.

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell use
 

I rather agree with the design choice to have some spells not cast by the AI and only left to the players. With the gazillion spells in the game I don't expect any AI to handle spellcasting correctly for all (or even some http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif )

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell
 

I'm about to present an uncounterable argument for limiting AI spell use.

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Words cannot describe how I'm feeling right now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell
 

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That... Ugh. Well:
and I just observed!

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell
 

Its is in fact ucounterable.
Sadly though, I just can't stop laughing.

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell use
 

Heh! I was wondering if the AI would ever creatively decide Vortex of Returning by itself.

Just marking Vortex of Returning as "AI never casts" would be a crude but simple solution. But I think there is a counter-argument, which is that, in an ideal world, there would be enough time to program the AI so that it sensed when its own troops were in grave danger of being wiped out, and the home province was safer, and only in those circumstances to cast that particular spell.

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell
 

Maybe make it so if you will route the next round, then the Vortex is used?

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell
 

Barkskin and Phoenix Pyre are also dangerous spells in certain situations.

Barkskin -- I once sent a Druid on a 1-man suicide mission after he cast Barkskin on my Abysians. That was a very, very ugly spell to choose...

Phoenix Pyre is dangerous if there are friendly non-fire-immunes.

Re: Very disappointing news about AI combat spell
 

I've more or less managed to get over the shock, which has now been replaced by an extremely strong urge to strip Daulis of his magic items and teleport him into a hostile province.

Works for me, but that's not a counter-argument as such, as I wasn't advocating exclusion, but limitation. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Heh, you ought to be able to feel my pain.