October 28th, 2003, 06:49 PM
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Re: Poll #2. [Try out the demo, and vote after that!]
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Originally posted by -Storm-:
The independent's str was 2 in all games.
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2? I could beat the AIs on an independent setting of 2. Fast taking of provinces, intelligent use of build queues using only the best choices in the province I take. Always upping the price Im willing to pay on Mercs (the AI seems to always offer the asking price as far as I can tell). Find and taking the AI castle early in the game so I have their main source of gems and money.
I usually run my games at 7. That extends the time it takes for opponents to reach each other. For some races thats a big difference if their strength lies in their dominion or research or bleeding all the resources from the provinces they take. At the end of the Dom 1 era I started scripting random maps that boosted the independents beyond a setting of 9 which drastically changed the game play.
Hmmm I suppose AIs could be tought to play differently based on that setting. But then you might as well have them take all the other settings into account also. Nasty project there.
[ October 28, 2003, 16:50: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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