Re: effects of ai difficulty settings ?
The game is built around pbem multiplay. The ai didnt really get much attention except as a way to test things quickly. Its not TOO bad but definetly not a great ai.
Normal setting gives it the same points for creating that you do. Easy gives it less and hard gives it extra points to use for god magic, scales, castle, dominions strength. Other than that it can be kindof stupid. It does alot of things that makes you THINK it has secret info or hidden plans but later you find out it was mostly random shot-in-the-dark or just moving around alot.
By the way, the biggest "the AI is too hard" thing is people starting the game with low independents. If things seem too rough at first then turn indepts higher (it tends to hurt the ai more than it does you), and try leaving Ermor and the water nations off of early games.
[ June 22, 2004, 19:20: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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