The AI Pretender design is insane!

[Sombre]

That must be on impossible. All those extra design points put to use.

[Juzza]

I hate the way AI difficulty settings work...

[Loren]

Sombre said:
That must be on impossible. All those extra design points put to use.

It might be, I've forgotten what I started this with.

I don't have a good picture of what his scales are like because my dominion is pressing in but the lands I have been fighting through have had some pretty low population numbers. Something sure devastated the landscape and I strongly suspect it's bad scales despite all the points he put into his sage.

When it's got gobs of points to spend it should put more into scales!

[PyroStock]

Loren said:
When it's got gobs of points to spend it should put more into scales!

Agreed.

I have an AI as EA Argatha, which is a cold blooded nation, that took Cold2 instead of Heat0to3. I might expect such silliness from Easy AI, but not Very Difficult or Impossible.

[iceboy]

I wish we could design the AI Pretends that we will face!

[Zeldor]

But you can. Just set him as human and switch to AI on turn 1.

[llamabeast]

You can also put designed pretenders in at the start using map editing. I don't know much about this, but other people know lots.

[iceboy]

How do you switch all the players to AI once the game has started?

[Zeldor]

Options -> Become computer controlled

Though I don't know what level it sets at and if you can change it.

[NTJedi]

PyroStock said:

Agreed.

I have an AI as EA Argatha, which is a cold blooded nation, that took Cold2 instead of Heat0to3. I might expect such silliness from Easy AI, but not Very Difficult or Impossible.

Very true... the best help an AI can recieve are strong positive scales which can be done by editing the .map file. Inside the Dominions doc folder is a PDF which explains how to edit the .map file.