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Re: Gonna have to say negative. by Arbit 04/20/2012, 7:59pm PDT
Bananadine wrote:

It seems like an okay game but I ended up having the problem with it that I seem to have with most strategy games now: The AI is moronic, so the game is easy and boring, but then you turn up the difficulty and the AI cheats and now the game is hard and boring, so you play online and then things are fun but now your schedule is tied to other people's schedules and for one reason or another that doesn't work for me at all. I haven't gotten to that third step with this game yet but I think I probably will.

This is exactly how I feel!

The extreme stupidity of the AI just pushed me over into the negative! column. I can have some fun with a stupid AI, but I can't have fun with an AI that insists on suiciding itself on me. What happened (and in general, what has been happening): If I leave a valuable resource unguarded or lightly guarded near their territory, it immediately sends over a small force to take it, regardless if I have an uber stack sitting around nearby. If I kill it, it immediately dispatches another one... and another... and another... until it runs out of commanders and loses! If it has enough troops to make an uber stack it will a) not challenge your uber stack and b) chop itself up into smaller stacks as it takes stuff and leaves about a quarter to a third of the stack behind to garrison stuff. It became particularly ridiculous when I had a citadel right next to city - he had a large stack of demon units that was probably more than a match for my big stack so I hole up in the city and think this is the end... but instead he took the citadel, left 1/3 behind, I killed that garrison by attacking from the city, then he turned right around and took the undefended city, left a 1/3, I killed it, and by this time his stack was pretty depleted. I killed it and that was his last commander. Then the remaining player did the same thing.

Awful.

And this is why I play RTSs against humans.
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Your new assignment, MM by fabio 02/17/2012, 9:58am PST NEW
    Re: Your new assignment, MM by Lurker 56498 02/17/2012, 12:03pm PST NEW
        Re: Your new assignment, MM by Souffle of Pain 02/17/2012, 7:24pm PST NEW
    Re: Your new assignment, MM by Mischief Maker 02/17/2012, 8:15pm PST NEW
    Word on the street is a single player oriented variant of Dominons 3 by Mischief Maker 02/18/2012, 1:46pm PST NEW
    Gonna have to say negative. by Mischief Maker 02/27/2012, 8:49pm PST NEW
        See you in court! by fabio 02/27/2012, 10:59pm PST NEW
            Here's another new rule for game designers by Mischief Maker 02/28/2012, 11:58am PST NEW
                Ultra-aggressive "deers" by Arbit 03/13/2012, 11:07am PDT NEW
                Also, I must admit I'm enjoying the couple hours I have spent so far by Arbit 03/13/2012, 3:32pm PDT NEW
                    Now I'm mass polymorphing goblins into pigs and then charming them NT by PigForce 5 03/14/2012, 3:35pm PDT NEW
                        CoE3, like Dwarf Fortress and Europa Universalis, falls into a genre I call: by Mischief Maker 03/21/2012, 8:25pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Also, I must admit I'm enjoying the couple hours I have spent so far by Bananadine 03/26/2012, 10:08am PDT NEW
        Re: Gonna have to say negative. by Bananadine 03/26/2012, 9:40am PDT NEW
            Re: Gonna have to say negative. by Arbit 04/20/2012, 7:59pm PDT NEW
    In case anyone was wondering, the Voice of El faction they added by Arbit 10/28/2012, 8:17pm PDT NEW
 
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