Global Enchantment questions

Gandalf Parker · #1 January 25th, 2004, 02:40 AM

Part of the problem is that there isnt an Ermor AI and a Jotun AI. There is just one AI. I think there are some "If I am Ermor" things but not as many as there maybe should be. Most of the AI's decisions are done with generic statements.

Come to think of it, isnt the default Ermor theme humans now? So this might even be left over from when Ermor was all undead. Bad enough trying to come up with all the "If I am Ermor" stuff without having to consider "If I am Ermor with the Ashen Empire theme"

[ January 25, 2004, 00:40: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

PvK · #2 January 25th, 2004, 02:44 AM

It's an area where the AI could improve, to be sure. Burden of Time could make sense when your god is temporarily visiting the River Styx, and the other nations seem to have a bunch of valuable mortal units. Some non-Ermor nations can also have a lot of units which are immune to disease, age, etc.

PvK

Norfleet · #3 January 25th, 2004, 04:36 AM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Part of the problem is that there isnt an Ermor AI and a Jotun AI. There is just one AI. I think there are some "If I am Ermor" things but not as many as there maybe should be. Most of the AI's decisions are done with generic statements.

The AI doesn't really think this out, though. It's not so much that "You cast this spell when you are Ermor", so much that, "Being Ermor" is a quick way of saying that your army consists nearly entirely of undead which are immune to Burden of Time/Utterdark. The AI, of course, will happily Burden of Time his own units, which are perfectly living, having not considered the fact that his own forces consist of the living rather than the undead.