POLL: Speed vs Smart

[Chazar]

I thought that Dom2 is intended to be played PBEM-style (whether you actually send emails or connect directly to a server does not affect the PBEM-playstyle). So this implies that there is a lot of time between the turns, leaving enough room for a long computation for hosting, as long as the AI finishes after 24hrs...

Are we talking about the strategical AI or about the tactical AI? The answer is 'smart' anyway! However, in the case of the strategical nation AI, why cannot the computer compute its turn simultaneously as the player is doing his turn? Is it cheating by spying into the submitted turns? Making the host to compute while waiting for the player's turn should leave enough time for computing the strategical AI, no?

[bone_daddy]

Smarter AI, definitely. I haven't really played online yet, but the AI in SP needs to be more challenging.

[NTJedi]

Yes the AI is quite dumb... For example the AI does not cast important attack spells such as Ghost Riders or Flames from the Sky !

It's just not fair to cast these spells at them when the AI doesn't cast them at us.