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-shrug-

I've played a lot of strategy games with better AI than Dom3. You can assume I'm expecting ridiculous things of it or living in la-la land if you want, but I remain unimpressed. I could list games with superior AI, but this really doesn't seem the right place to do something like that and it's hardly constructive.

I suspect a lot of you have had your judgement clouded by your love of the game. Maybe I'm off the mark, but I really don't get where the praise of the AI is coming from. So Dom3 is a complicated game with a great deal of variables. So what? It's not like the AI makes use of these variables in a meaningful way. Dom3 supports stealth, but the AI doesn't launch stealthy raids, it supports assassinations, but the AI selects targets at random, it supports the building of SCs, the AI can't handle that, it supports waves of spies building unrest, the AI can't do that,.. and so on and so on. The AI plays a very simple game. It basically pursues brute military force and in my experience it seems to lack the risk assessment to make that work. It can maybe overpower you through weight of resources, or luck,.. but that's just about it. I fail to see what's impressing you. Is it that the AI researches and finds gem sites and casts spells? Please note that it really doesn't get anywhere by doing any of this. It's doing what a Dom3 player is supposed to do, but none of it boils down to anything that threatens the player.

If it seems like I'm being overly negative in this thread then I apologise. Maybe there's something I don't 'get' about how great the AI is. Maybe I'm just the best Dom3 player ever to grace the earth (hah). To me it's just an average AI which I'm glad to have at all in a multiplayer focused title. I still very much enjoy SP and I like the Dom3 community too.

How did the Dom3 AI 'rank high' by the way? Was it for challenge or was it for how closely it matches human playstyle?