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Originally posted by ywl:
A scripting language which can handle the game situation is nice on paper. But it's a tremendous task - that's why I put a on my comment. So, unless the developers say that they're willing to work on it, or somebody could send them a language spec and preferrable a compiler, it'll be more or less remain just an idea.

It might be fun and easy enough to give the AI different preference to exploration, conquering, etc. But that will only change the weakpoint AI in strategy to something else . It wouldn't really solve the major issue here.

Overall, I don't think it's even realistic to expect an AI can play such a complicated game well. But some simple fixes should be able to make the AI more challenging - and we have proposed some.

It would change the AI weakpoint to what exactly? Certainly if you think the AI is weak in many areas, improving some of them is worthwhile, it doesn't make the unimproved areas any weaker, other than on a reletive scale.

The easist thing to fix in the strategic AI is probably the unit balance within a nation. I would guess that if that were fixed (or made moddible to let the modders play around with it) other defiencies would be less obvious since the main hanicap of not fielding competative armies would be gone.

I'm sure it's a deeper issue than we touch on though, only the Devs can tell us what is realistically possible. We are just presenting different ways to look at the problem. (I hope )