House Rules against the AI

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

IIRC its treated like a cap site. It would give gold and gems but not troops.

Yeah, but that gives anybody that conquers the cap site (Ea: the player) a huge bonus.

[Makinus]

Just to add a recent set of house rules i´m playing with that is generating some very fun and challenging games with the AI:

New house rules:
- do not construct any new castles - you only keep your starting castle and any conquered or generated by events.
- Always use max Drain scale.
- AIs at least in Mighty

Old Rules:
- Always use an Imprisioned pretender
- Only attack AIs if attacked first (just declaring war is not enough)
- Do not use battle spells that use gems
- Do not use global spells (using Dispel to bring down ones used by the AI is fine).


I´m not using anymore the house rule of only 1 researcher per lab, but using the max Drain scale and the castle limit i got a similar effect, and the limit on castles really make the game challenging...

[JonBrave]

Originally Posted by Makinus

I´m not using anymore the house rule of only 1 researcher per lab

I'm very glad to read this, as I've commented on it before

Originally Posted by Makinus

- Do not use battle spells that use gems

Of course it's matter of what you want to achieve in a game, but I did try this for a while and for me it took out a lot of fun.