Longest Single Player Game ??

Gandalf Parker · #1 May 18th, 2004, 04:14 PM

My brother-in-law had some games with AI that had battles where both of them were using thousands of troops. I sure wish I had saved some of them. Id love to do a "fly-over" camera recording of one of those battles.

You know that Johan and Kristoffer gave up two of their debug switches. I dont think they are in the command_line file yet but...

--allbutermor can be used to quick start a game with all but Ermor

--superhost is a switch to force hosting even if turns havent been done and to continue doing it even if no humans are left in the game.

So you could setup a game to loop hosting. Along with --scoredump you will be able to keep an eye on how the game progresses. You can also use map commands to try and setup your human-player to survive to the end of the game so you can peek in.

NTJedi · #2 May 18th, 2004, 06:48 PM

I always finish every game whether I am winning or losing... and no matter what the odds. The reason is so I can experience situations like Helms Deep(yet no Gandalf coming). Also to strike the final blow on an enemy which I may have been wrestling with for 80 turns or so. The hardest games to keep playing is when you are losing. Very often I've wanted to escape and start over but never would be happy with myself by tossing in the towel. If I know I'm going to lose then I play onward just to see how long I can stay alive.
In the game I'm playing right now Marginon almost crushed me during day 35 thru 40. His armies were slowing killing me and he was sitting on the doorsteps of my capital with bigger armies then me. Then just when Marginon was about to take my Last dozen territories away from me ULM shows up... crushing his armies. Luckily Ulm left me alone and focused on swallowing Marginon because it allowed me to rebuild. Now the game has only three players left Ulm, Vanheim and me(Machaka). I'm still not winning... but I'm holding my ground... and it looks like a long game.

Surprisingly Vanheim is doing almost as good as me on research... which I have never seen before with computer opponents. Ulm has almost no research which is what I typically see with all computer opponents. I believe the games would be even more interesting and challenging with the AI opponents if they placed more units into researching.