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Old December 31st, 2004, 04:01 PM
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In terms of extremely weak AI/low difficulty, the game 'Ascendancy' has a heck of a reputation, but I can't vouch for it personally.
Master of magic had a really bad AI imo .
Same for the AOW series , especially not patched AOW 2 where the Ai attacked gates with only 2 units always . So 8 archers were enough to defend any town against anything . Or 2 strong fliers .

Those 2 games are less complex than dominions , but the same genre and their ai is still inferior to the dominions AI
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Old January 1st, 2005, 05:49 AM
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Hmmmm...I've noticed that people are talking about which games have bad(poor) AI, but never tell which games who's blessed with advanced/complexed AI. Does it exist? I mean I have been on several strategy Boards and there's always someone complaining about poor AI. Not that I say there aren't room for improvement there always is and always be untill an AI can think like a human brain.

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Galactic Civilizations, I think. Never got into it, but as it is a single-player only strategy game built, IIRC, to see if the AI they developed was any good it should be. There is a demo, so you can try it.
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Hmmmm...I've noticed that people are talking about which games have bad(poor) AI, but never tell which games who's blessed with advanced/complexed AI. Does it exist? I mean I have been on several strategy Boards and there's always someone complaining about poor AI.
In Dom2's case, it's not just a question of "poor AI", but a question of the AI not being very fun to play against. The inability of the AI to really use any strategy other than throwing masses of low quality troops at you makes playing against it very boring.

In other games, the AI may not be great. but in many cases, it's at least fun to play against. For example, in SEIV, each race has its own distinctive shipbuilding strategies, so it would be boring to play against the same AI over and over again, but there are lots of different AIs to play against.
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In Dom2's case, it's not just a question of "poor AI", but a question of the AI not being very fun to play against. The inability of the AI to really use any strategy other than throwing masses of low quality troops at you makes playing against it very boring.

It looks like a very good point. Even in GalCiv which probably has better AI than other games, AI needs large bonuses to compete with good player. However, GalCiv's AI plays much more like a human player, it plays differently for different races and its strategy is much less obvious, which makes it more interesting to play against. Dom2 is much more complex game, and, surprisingly, AI isn't too bad, with relatively mild bonuses it is doing decent job, but it follows a very simple plan which makes the best use of its bonuses. Unfortunately, it makes all games vs AI look alike.
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