Is this game worth to buy? Hum.

[Yojinbo]

I am not finishing games in 40 turns either. Maybe I'm just too slow.

AI bashing is so popular and it's impossible to defend against such vague accusations. I have seen some AI blunders in the demo (attacking me too soon with too few armies), but I have seen human opponents make the same mistakes. I just don’t have enough criteria to judge the AI yet (only played 5 games).

If citizens of this community want to make a relevant point about the AI, please consider doing so with detailed examples so that people like me (with no psychic powers) can follow along. This is the only possible way the developers can address your complaints. The AI detractors may be right, but so far the signal to noise ratio is low.

As for the trolls and fools; I can’t tell the players without a scorecard so I’ll lay off the labels. But in this community (like any other) you will be judged by your contributions. Personally, I don’t create much in this world so I try to be respectful of the creations of others (except for mimes who I seek to destroy).

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[Gandalf Parker]

An important note from another thread is that one of the AI "testers" was running the games with independents at 2. This would put a huge benefit on the side of human thinking. Im pretty sure I can totally kick most of the AIs at that setting.

Im not sure where the AIs are optimized. My scripted games in Dom 1 where I put the independents at basically a setting above 9 tended to make the AIs easier to beat also. A game setting of indep 7 seems to be strng for AI.

There are alot of other settings which can matter also, along with map size and the opponents in the game.

[Mortifer]

The AI is not that good as it supposed to be.
Why? Because take a look at the battle or spellcasting AI. Those are excellent. I think that Iw will enchance the strategical AI, just give them time.

Is this game worth to buy/preorder? Hell yeah! Until the AI will be better, play MP! You bet that if someone, than IW will try to do their best, and tweak the AI.
You should support them, and make suggestions/post ideas that what should be improved, instead of pissing off the ppl by comments like "I wont buy this crap, cuz the AI sux.".

[LordArioch]

The normal AI's seem to be about even with me...and I used to be able to beat difficult dom1 ai with EASE. So I really don't see what you people are doing to have such an easy time with the AI. Start a game with 8 impossible AI's, win, and then you have my permission to complain.

Also I'd like an example of a game that has such better AI...because I haven't seen any.