Poll #2. [Try out the demo, and vote after that!]

Kristoffer O · #1 October 28th, 2003, 06:06 PM

A sudden thought: Did you use mercenaries? I believe that the AI is less fond of them than it should be after the new mercenary system was introduced.

MythicalMino · #2 October 28th, 2003, 06:09 PM

you know...that is right...Mercs are a GREAT addition to an army...especially in the early game if you can get some good ones....That could make sense too if they are not using them....

KO, how would you change that? just some settings in the AI? or would there be a lot more "re-programming" going on?

Kristoffer O · #3 October 28th, 2003, 06:13 PM

It should not be too much of a problem to make the AI merc-loving, but I'll have to ask codemaster-JK.

MythicalMino · #4 October 28th, 2003, 06:16 PM

you devs, i can't keep up with you...you guys need to change your name to Jim, Bob, and Al....

K.O. = Jim
J.K. = Bob
and J.0. = Al

Although...now that I think about it, I have only seen one game where an ai nation took a Merc team....I forget who it was though...but only one....and I usually check every turn for Mercs...

[ October 28, 2003, 16:18: Message edited by: cpbeller ]

Saber Cherry · #5 October 28th, 2003, 06:18 PM

I started a couple games (poor me, too busy to play!

) and always thought the mercs were way too expensive, so I never hired them. But when I checked the next turn to see if the price had gone down, the AI had snapped them up.

Are the merc prices always for a 3-month contract? At any rate, from what I see, the AI is grabbing mercs ASAP... but these games both had many AIs, at every difficulty level from easy to impossible, so for all I know, maybe some of the levels don't grab mercs correctly.

-Cherry

Kristoffer O · #6 October 28th, 2003, 06:21 PM

Storm, another though:

What independent strength did you use? Default, higher or lower. I recommend the default settings. A setting of 0 or 1 would change the working of the game radically and wouldn't be much fun. The AI would be seriously disadvantaged (especially at 0).

-Storm- · #7 October 28th, 2003, 06:21 PM

Kris, I gotcha now. Yes there were AI wars for sure than.
I remember, that one time I saw something on the graphs.... I did nothing in that period against that AI, and it surely lost (some?) provinces. That was an AI war than.

Yup I used mercs, but the AI used them too. !!! 2 times the AI charmed my mercs to their side even!