Well, I'm through with the game

LDiCesare · #1 March 21st, 2008, 05:12 AM

I'm probably a poor player, but playing on a 125 provinces wrapparound map against 10 mighty ai's is still a challenge for me. Although it may depend on which nation I pick.

Twan · #2 March 21st, 2008, 05:45 AM

Yes the smaller the map is the harder is the game against AIs (it's for 20+ provinces per nation maps that AIs may need to be boosted more ; on a 10 provinces per nation map I think I lose too against mighties, especially if some are offensive).

Renojustin · #3 March 21st, 2008, 08:29 AM

I'm up to out-finessing 7 Impossible AIs in medium sized random maps, even with relatively weak nations, and without SCs. Yay!

Should I be setting them to Offensive? I just have em set to Random behavior... at least that way most of the talent on the map seems to be making a beeline for me (for some reason) instead of randomly bashing away at their neighbors.

Twan · #4 March 21st, 2008, 09:38 AM

Quote:

Should I be setting them to Offensive? I just have em set to Random behavior...

I think the sooner AIs attack the best it is for them, as they are mostly bad in the magic area (playing with very difficult research should help them too).

Offensive AIs attack more both other AIs and players.
But if you set ten AIs on offensive on a small map, I think there are good chances that some of them gang against you (especially if you have a better start than most AIs and so have several neighbours fast).

There is also a map command to avoid to see AIs fighting each other (but it may lead to some AIs not succeeding to expand as another AI hold a crucial chokepoint).

theenemy · #5 March 21st, 2008, 10:04 AM

This probably won't help anyone but the AI can still kick my butt in SP because of the fact that I don't play Dom3 as often as I want to.

NTJedi · #6 March 21st, 2008, 01:55 PM

Quote:

renojustin said:
I'm up to out-finessing 7 Impossible AIs in medium sized random maps, even with relatively weak nations, and without SCs. Yay!

Should I be setting them to Offensive? I just have em set to Random behavior... at least that way most of the talent on the map seems to be making a beeline for me (for some reason) instead of randomly bashing away at their neighbors.

On your computer browse into the docs folder and read the map edit PDF document. It will allow you to setup one or more AI's as allies, allow you to give the AI's growth scales, and more.

Cor2 · #7 March 21st, 2008, 01:32 PM

I was thinking it should be easy to mod a fix that reduces the penalty for bad scales to the point where it is giving free points to the AI for taking them ( the player would have to refrain from taking bad scales). But that wouldn't work would it, because good scales are tied to bad.