Good game, but....the AI is very bad.

[Slygar]

Originally posted by delacroix:

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Originally posted by Molog:
I know AOW, MOM have horrible cheating AI's. Most players don't seem to mind though.

I certainly don't mind, Master of Magic / Orion were funnest and toughest at the impossible settings even though the AI receieved significant bonuses at those levels .

Certainly if a player didn't want the CPU opponents to cheat they could just play at normal difficulty instead.

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I agree with this.. let the AI cheat. Gem, income bonuses, randomly appearing forts, permenent +3 luck, +300 design points (for scales), whatever. Only on higher difficulty levels, of course.

Heh, a neat idea might be to have a moving bonus to AI scales, meaning that at normal difficulty all their scales go with the normal AI creation routines. At hard, they get all scales as normal, but with a +1 bonus or something? +3 at Impossible?

[ May 09, 2004, 06:54: Message edited by: Slygar ]

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Slygar:
I agree with this.. let the AI cheat. Gem, income bonuses, randomly appearing forts, permenent +3 luck, +300 design points (for scales), whatever. Only on higher difficulty levels, of course.

The AI already DOES get bonus design points at higher difficulties. There's no income or gem bonus, however, above what it gains from having superior scales due to bonus points and better searching due to more magic from said points.

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Wikd Thots:
WIMPS!
You payed for the game. What diff if its one poor programmer? You can demand anything you want. I want to control units in fights like my other games. I want to save games so I can load if things are crap. I want cheat codes. And I want to play with my friends if we buy one disc.
I want all of that and I want it NOW because it should already be in it like the other games that cost this much!

You got what you paid for. You had every opportunity to check the demo out before you coughed up the money. The things you complain about are design decisions, you might as well demand that your chessmaster game should have a spurts of blood and cute battle sounds, or that you should be able to tactically control a battle that played out whenever two chess pieces enter the same square. There is no law that point by point details what features a game should have. Had dom 2 been marketed as having these things you demand you would have a case, but it doesn't. You can make any demands you like, but unless they are reasonable noone is going to pay attention to them.

[Norfleet]

JO, I hope he was being sarcastic. Because otherwise he needs to be taken out back and given a sound beating.

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
JO, I hope he was being sarcastic. Because otherwise he needs to be taken out back and given a sound beating.

You might be right. If you check his profile he claims one of his interests is trolling, and his occupation is irritant. I guess I swallowed his hook and bait. Don't click on his hompeage whatever you do though.

[Norfleet]

Ah, yes, his homepage. I've heard about that one before. I take it you clicked on it?

[johan osterman]

Yup