Artificial stupidity

[Valandil]

actually, I've never had a problem with this, and I play ry'leh. Order your mages to ALL cast BoW, and then cast, and, since mind burn is absurdly long-ranged, they should never move.

[shovah]

who says he will only be using mind burn? seems a waste of such expensive mages.

[Folket]

He means that the mages will be able to cast mind burn when the enemy is runing away becuase of the range, so your mages will not default to stay behind troops as they do when they can't cast any useful spell.

[Arralen]

.. make that "can't cast any spell". They will cast even the most unuseful spell before they start moving.

Btw. - to correct this whole issue is obviously not trivial, or the devs would have done that long before.

There's no 'do nothing order' - even commanders set to "stay behind troops" wiggle about a bit each turn. So a mage who cannot cast any spell (no matter who silly it may be) can't simply stand still for one turn - he has to move and defaults to "stay behind rearmost" because of this.

[Folket]

Are you sure a fire mage being out of range will cast fireflies after the opponent?

[Arralen]

Nope. He can't cast any spell, because he has no target in range to cast fireflies at. Dunno where I should have said otherwise.

He will cast at a single inf unit at max range despite the to-hit chance must be around 0.1%, though.

Likewise, he'll cast any other spell that has a target that is in range - preferably buffs spells, because those have range "self" or "1".

Only if he runs totally out of castable spells he'll start to move.

[Agrajag]

Here's what I want to know, how come everytime someone remarks that an AI is stupid he says Artificial Stupidity in mock of Artificial Intelligence. Why not Genuine Stupidity which is a much more fitting title. (IE the AI is genuinely stupid)