Re: AI difficulty levels
question on a related topic:
If I turn over a player nation to AI control, which difficulty setting does the AI use? Obviously, it cannot change the pretender or the scales (can it?), but does it get the production bonus from the difficulty level I set on the game startup screen?
Does the AI hamper itself by pretender and scale choice too often?
I experimented with severaly nation design I turned over to AI control after 1..3 turns, and I seems to me that a pre-build nation works much better and more consistently for the AI than most nations it comes up with.
It is especially prone to kill C'tis, Vanheim and Joutmheim off by itself using heavy death scales .. I mean, how far do Niefel Giants Last with death-2, especially as on most maps procinves and therefore supply values are rather small in everage?
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As for AI the most effective work around to this problem so far is to simply use an American instead, they tend to put up a bit more of a fight than your average Artificial Idiot.
... James McGuigan on rec.games.computer.stars somewhen back in 1998 ...
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