Newbie Questions (on the AI)

[fahdiz]

I'm very new to the game as well, and it always kind of startles me where I read about someone from this forum having the game for a couple of weeks and finding no challenge whatsoever in the AI. I figure those people must either be 1) lying; 2) incredibly lucky, or; 3) just so intrinsically good at strategy games that no SP game on the market would provide them any competition.

In my (very limited) opinion, I believe the AI is quite good. Sometimes it really surprises me. I am sure it has exploitable weaknesses, and that I will eventually discover them - but somehow I can't imagine that after *discovering* the weaknesses, I'll always be *prepared* to exploit them, since there's a lot of randomization thrown into the mix, especially on maps without fixed starting positions.

I've seen veteran players (who would probably utterly destroy me in multiplayer) posting on this forum who say that a continent full of Impossible AIs gives them a challenge, so that's good enough for me.

EDIT (for typos, poor wording, and grammar.)

[ February 18, 2004, 22:49: Message edited by: fahdiz ]