What happened to the AI?

Edratman · #1 June 17th, 2008, 04:32 PM

I do not remember exactly what the score graph showed when I encountered it. I know the nation was low, but the graphs are not large enough to read much better than that.

And when a castle is besieged, ownership is not really decided in some game terms. Although the beseiger is nominally the owner, neither side can recruit in the province. The castle still owns the lab and can research and summon. I don't know who gets the gems, but I think it goes to the castle. The besieger gets the taxes. So it is possible for the graph not to reflect besieging, specially when the siege drops the number of provinces to zero, but the god is still alive.

Loren · #2 June 18th, 2008, 01:00 AM

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Edratman said:
I do not remember exactly what the score graph showed when I encountered it. I know the nation was low, but the graphs are not large enough to read much better than that.

And when a castle is besieged, ownership is not really decided in some game terms. Although the beseiger is nominally the owner, neither side can recruit in the province. The castle still owns the lab and can research and summon. I don't know who gets the gems, but I think it goes to the castle. The besieger gets the taxes. So it is possible for the graph not to reflect besieging, specially when the siege drops the number of provinces to zero, but the god is still alive.

But going from 1 to zero should have been clear in the graph. It did happen but long afterwards.

silhouette · #3 June 18th, 2008, 02:27 AM

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But going from 1 to zero should have been clear in the graph. It did happen but long afterwards.

Probably just a coincidence of actions that makes it look like that. For example, the AI sent its initial army and took a capital-adjacent province with very heavy losses, and on the same turn a indep. event sieged their capital. That could leave them with 1 province still, but very low income and low ability to recruit for a looong time, making them easy pickings later. Did they finally die from another AI, or from dominion death, or ?

Sill

Aezeal · #4 June 18th, 2008, 04:28 AM

does the besieger get the taxes?

Sombre · #5 June 18th, 2008, 05:21 AM

MaxWilson · #6 June 18th, 2008, 05:35 AM

Mostly. The besieger gets the base taxes, and the besieged gets the admin bonus taxes. So in a 200 gold province with an Admin 40 fort, you'd normally get 240 gold per turn. If you're besieged, you'll get 40 gold and he'll get 200. So Saith KO.

-Max

Edratman · #7 June 18th, 2008, 11:24 AM

Pvk has proved that the graph goes down when besieged so I have no realistic explanation for your observations.

Loren · #8 June 18th, 2008, 02:26 PM

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Loren said:
But going from 1 to zero should have been clear in the graph. It did happen but long afterwards.

Probably just a coincidence of actions that makes it look like that. For example, the AI sent its initial army and took a capital-adjacent province with very heavy losses, and on the same turn a indep. event sieged their capital. That could leave them with 1 province still, but very low income and low ability to recruit for a looong time, making them easy pickings later. Did they finally die from another AI, or from dominion death, or ?

Sill

Yeah, that scenario is possible.

I have no idea what they died of, I never saw them.