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Old March 27th, 2006, 05:44 PM
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Default Re: So...the customers wont be cheated this time?

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MStavros said:
Graeme, I dont know how hard is to program the AI, you are right...but since Illwinter is talented, we can clearly see this from the Dominions games, I am pretty sure that they could fix it.
I asked you how many games it took you before you can guarantee that you will win against 16 other AI players on a ~160 province map. If you can't guarantee that win, then the AI is clearly still capable of beating you. As for your ignorance about the difficulties of AI programming, it doesn't just take talent to build an AI capable of defeating humans. It took decades of research effort to build an AI that could defeat humans at Chess, a completely deterministic game with an 8 X 8 movement grid, and 6 individual unit types. Dominions is only has a few dozen orders of magnitude more choices to make.

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I think after a company is releasing a game, they must support it, interact with the players that what is wrong, what to fix etc. This is how its working for all games.
Are you claiming that Illwinter hasn't supported their game? Do I need to go through the patch list to point out where you are mistaken?

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..and yeah I never played any mods for Dominions 2..there were any mods to fix the AI errors? I really missed those if there are any.
So you are complaining that Illwinter didn't support single player games, while at the same time you never even _used_ the things they did add for single player games?