[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by Eximius Sus

Why on earth would I want to join a multiplayer game and fight the AI? Seems like MP games take months. I can beat up 15 AI's in a couple days at 40 turns a day. I just can't imagine the motivation to do that at less than one turn a day. Sounds boring as hell. Especially after what Chris Pedersen above said that the AI is easy.

Do you put AI's in multiplayer games? What on earth for?

When AIs are added to MP games from the beginning, you've got a comp stomp which can be interesting or desirable for some players, it also presents a greater challenge in my opinion versus just regular indies. Oftentimes the AIs that are added to MP games (like the GENOCIDE AIs in the NaV series) are enhanced/modified and/or boosted, and are generally much tougher/and or more challenging than your typical run-of-the-mill unmodified AIs. As a matter of fact, the AI can in theory at least, be made powerful enough (but not necessarily smart enough) to wipe every player off the map.

But of course whenever a player drops in any MP game, and a replacement cannot be found, you wind up fighting against AIs, like it not. You're also fighting against a static AI/computer opponent whenever you attack an indy province.