AI most equal to human player

[Verjigorm]

What I do a lot of times is to create pretenders for the nations I want to play against and then set them to AI on turn 1--It keeps them from selecting crappy scales and the like.

I once had an AI pretender for Mictlan with 3 Turmoil and 3 Misfortune--His main castle was beseiged by Knights on an early turn and he never escaped his castle. Of course it's not to say that 3-Turm, 3-Mis is necessarily a bad choice...I suppose you might be able to handle such a thing as a human perhaps with Ermor, but the computer doesn't have a good enough strategy to work out the problems.

[von_Schmidt]

Verjigorm said:
What I do a lot of times is to create pretenders for the nations I want to play against and then set them to AI on turn 1--It keeps them from selecting crappy scales and the like.

That is interesting - never thought of that. Am at work right now, so cannot check: is it possible to give the nation a huge bonus (ie: 'impossible AI' level) while designing, so that it retains that advantage when set to AI in turn 1?

Trying to improve the SP challenge here!

[Arralen]

No, you can't. You have to create a 'regular' nation (without excessive points) which you hand over to the AI.

I don't know -and the devs never answered my question-, if the production-bonus etc. does affect those nations if you set the AI strenght via command line option.

Found out that with some designs / nations and pre-placed castles the AI does significantly better.

[johan osterman]

The AI will avoid crappier scales at higher difficulties. That combined with the extra design points should mean that it for the most part does not make totally unviable pretenders.

[Ironhawk]

von_Schmidt said:
Trying to improve the SP challenge here!

Best way to improve the SP challenge is to play MP!