Curious about Dominions? how the AI thinks? which AI is best/worst?

[Illuminated One]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Are you using --superhost with it? That creates a superstats file which will tell you which type of AI is being used. 1=standard, 2=defensive, 3=aggressive. That might affect the research (I dont remember). There are also other randoms involved. It would also affect how often the armies march out.

No, and I didn't do any extensive testing, I just watched the first 20 turns of one AI manually. And probably I had difficulty at normal so that's maybe not saying very much about the highest difficulty levels.

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

I've seen them abandon the school partly through, say at level six, and I've even seen them abandon a research level partly through--but because of the increasing cost of extra levels, charging straight through to level nine in a school isn't necessarily a good thing anyway. You'd like your mages to have *some* basic capability at both Evoc and Alt, for instance, and some ritual capability in Conj and Constr.

Yep, the abandoning halfway before the next level is reached was the problem though (sorry, that was what I meant not going to level 6 and switching).