Suggestions for SP play?

[MaxWilson]

HoneyBadger,

How do you switch them to Impossible AI? I thought that was, well, impossible. Did a recent patch add the ability to pick the level of AI when you cede control? Or do you do it with a hex editor?

-Max

[Gandalf Parker]

It doesnt really matter much. The main difference is the number of points that it uses in creating its pretender and scales. So you cant really create a mid-game AI that is more than "average" (players level of starting points) unless you use the nocheat-check switch and create pretenders that are way off the scale at the beginning of the game. Then play it for abit before turning it AI.

[HoneyBadger]

I might have been wrong about that, MaxWilson, I'm just going by memory, but if you choose the Pretender scales and point-distribution, and then switch them to AI, it will usually work out to being better than arbitrary AI.

[Gandalf Parker]

It is (and the basis of the SemiRand's pretender library which can randomly select AI gods from pre-made better builds)

[MaxWilson]

The higher points are non-trivial, but the real benefit IMHO is that Impossible AIs get +100% to research, gold, gem production, etc. Of course that makes it pretty obvious why your nation is not allowed to become an Impossible AI just because you resign...

-Max

[HoneyBadger]

I wish there were some way to just save Pretenders for different Nations, and then have the AI always play with that specific Pretender, unless instructed otherwise.

[Gandalf Parker]

You probably could with MODs but knocking out all of the options excent the ones you want might take abit of doing.

Its fairly simple with AIs added to a map file. But its rather absolute. It even applies to human players taking the nation.