Well, I'm through with the game

llamabeast · #1 April 8th, 2008, 08:39 PM

Rich - the AI isn't so bad. It will certainly beat you for a fair while. And you can make it tougher and tougher by tilting the odds in its favour. I would definitely take the time to learn this game - there are lots of very enthusiastic people around here who only play single player.

Ballbarian · #2 April 8th, 2008, 09:29 PM

As AI goes, Dom3 is no worse than any other friggin' game on the market. Give it a rest. It kicked my *** plenty in the first few months and probably still would if I cranked it up to impossible and gave it favorable settings. I am no Dominions master but I am certainly not a novice or pushover either.

Hmmm... That sounded a little harsh.
I will add a smiley.

Rich · #3 April 8th, 2008, 09:47 PM

What I'm going by is this thread. All you people who say the ai sucks and isn't worth it. I guess my post is bringing out the folks who didn't write before. I'll go back to getting into playing. It really looks like a lot of fun.

No, I don't think it's odd to complain after just doing the tutorial. Not after reading this thread.

And yes, I go by adverts by companies like Shrapnel. At least I did.

sector24 · #4 April 8th, 2008, 11:29 PM

The complaints in this thread are blown wildly out of proportion. Even if you get to the point where you can defeat multiple Impossible level AIs, you've probably gotten your money's worth at that point. Plus the multiplayer is there even if you choose not to partake.

Rathar · #5 April 9th, 2008, 03:21 AM

Nod nod, the AI will obliterate you for the first few weeks/months. After that you have enough experience to learn where its amazingly dumb but then many games are like that.

Endoperez · #6 April 9th, 2008, 04:20 AM

Yeah, there are many strategies that the AI can't counter. Because multiplayer mostly revolves around these strategies, AI isn't a challenge if you use something meant to have a chance against other players. You'll get beaten by the AI a lot until you can figure out some effective counters against the AI hordes. If you start by reading advanced guides on how to beat the AI, the period where the AI is able to challenge you will be much shorter, of course.

Tuidjy · #7 April 9th, 2008, 01:28 PM

I you refrain from using mercs, thugs, supercombatants and battlefield enchantments
even normals AIs could give you a hard time. But why would you insist on playing
the AI? There are MP games for all skill levels. You've already found this forum,
so you are the right place to find a game.

thejeff · #8 April 9th, 2008, 01:43 PM

Why would you insist?

Because you can only play irregularly. Because you don't want to deal with diplomacy.

Because it's fun.

I tend to enjoy the lower levels, where there's less to deal with every turn. The first 2-3 years of a game. After that it usually becomes more work than I want to deal with. Less so in MP, but it still happens.

Luckily, those early years are where the AI does well. On impossible, it can throw huge decent armies at you from all sides. And you don't yet have the really abusive tactics to stop it cold. Thugs, but no real SCs (if you avoid SC pretender), battle magic is mostly evocations and the weaker buffs. Fighting the AI on something resembling it's own terms is not trivial.