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

MythicalMino · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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- · #4 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!

-Storm- · #5 October 28th, 2003, 06:24 PM

The independent's str was 2 in all games.

Kristoffer O · #6 October 28th, 2003, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by -Storm-:
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!

That's a good sign.

Try the game with 10 AI players or so. Then there should be at least one that is intent on kicking you besides the other AI wars.

licker · #7 October 28th, 2003, 06:26 PM

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Originally posted by -Storm-:
The independent's str was 2 in all games.

That could be a problem if the AI isn't as aggressive as a human in early expansion against weaker neutrals.

I usually jack up the indie strength in my games, not sure how that affects the AI, but in Dom1 anyway I never was able to run away with provinces.