Dominions 2. AI. Suggestions, that how to fix it.

MStavros · #1 October 28th, 2003, 08:45 PM

Hm yeah I understand the problem with the empty AI provinces. You cannot defend everything.

Yeah indy str 7+ and you cannot conquer that fast.

Once again I think the biggest problem is that the AI won't make bigger armies. I never seen one at least so far. Maybe I am crushing the AIs too fast? I dont know.
More, small armies are very ineffective, this is the problem IMHO.
+ The AI cant be bothered if you kill his little armies one by one. I never seen more small armies in the same province, also I never seen an invading, bigger attacking force so far.

[ October 28, 2003, 18:46: Message edited by: MStavros ]

Saber Cherry · #2 October 28th, 2003, 09:04 PM

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Originally posted by MStavros:
[QB] Once again I think the biggest problem is that the AI won't make bigger armies.

Maybe they finally understand supply rules?

I have yet to encounter an AI, so I don't know=)

-Storm- · #3 October 28th, 2003, 09:30 PM

Yup, I had the same experience. Well 40 turns is nothing, but still I didn't met with any "bigger" armies controlled by the AI.

Mortifer · #4 October 28th, 2003, 10:05 PM

I didn't played too many games, but mostly Ive seen small enemy (AI) armies. I met with a mediocre army 1 time, when I attacked a home province.
Sadly the AI isnt that good as I expected.

The battle AI + spellcasting AI is excellent. I am not sure, that why, but the strategical AI is lot worse.

Pocus · #5 October 28th, 2003, 11:23 PM

The AI is too contrived most of the time. On bigger maps (speaking of doms I here), an AI would emerge (Ermor often) and roll over the opposition. Then you would face it.

ywl · #6 October 28th, 2003, 11:58 PM

I saw army big enough for early game (at least 50 to 60 units) many times. Overall, the strategic AI behaves quite similar to Dom 1.

I have several observations:

1) AI tends to have a large number of crappy units, whereas human will go for quality (knights, emerald guards) whenever practical.

2) When you're seiging the AI capital, they'll keep trying to retake it. It's a sensible thing to do but being so predictable will make it easy to exploit. It doesn't hurt to add a degree of randomness to it.

3) Even without the tax-n-patrol trick, I can still expand faster than the AI. Do you guys have similar experience? Is there any way to improve the situation? We all know that if you lost the open-game, it's very hard to catch up.

4) Are there any nasty tricks hard-coded for the AI? Any experienced human players would have a wide arsenal of them, the AI need some to be competitive.

MStavros · #7 October 29th, 2003, 12:03 AM

Indy strength on 7 won't help at all. I had a game right now. 40 turns was not enough to kill the AI, but I almost did it.....It had like 2-3 provinces left, when the 40 turn limit ended my game.
I didnt met with a decent AI army, I only fought against some small forces...

Mortifer is right. This is very frustrating. The spellcasting AI is so cool, I wonder why is the strategic AI so weak?