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Old February 22nd, 2004, 12:46 AM

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Default At what difficulty does the AI cheat?

At what difficulty level and to what degree does the AI cheat?
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Old February 22nd, 2004, 02:32 AM

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Default Re: At what difficulty does the AI cheat?

It doesn't really "cheat" in terms of what most AIs do. It only has one advantage over players, which is that it always knows the ownership status of any province. That is to balance the fact human players can very easily intuit the same information from the dominion candles and so forth.

The difficulty levels control how many points the AI has to spend on its nation. On the Easy level, the AI has less points than the player. On Normal, everybody has the same, and the higher difficulty levels mean more design points for the AI nations.

Other than that, the AI has to play by the same rules as the player.
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Old February 22nd, 2004, 02:55 AM

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Default Re: At what difficulty does the AI cheat?

In other words, the level of AI difficulty only affects the amount of points the AI can spend on its pretender at the beginning of the game and has no affect on how intelligently it plays?
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Default Re: At what difficulty does the AI cheat?

In yet other words, at higher levels the Ai will have better Pretenders and/or Scales, but otherwise will *NOT* get a Gold/Production Bonus?
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Default Re: At what difficulty does the AI cheat?

Correct, again.

EDIT: this is actually fairly easy to check out for yourself by confining an AI to a single province (or maybe just a couple) and then seeing what the AI builds and how much of it. The AI has to cope with the exact same gold and resource limits you do.

What this means, given how well the Dom AI plays without cheating like those of other games, is that it's a truly superior AI.

Newbies to the game can also carefully observe what the AI builds and use it as clues to those nation's strengths and weaknesses. It can be quite educational.

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