'Substitute' AI should be Hard (at least)

from Demigod Forums

It really makes no sense that you get 'Normal' AI when someone drops, or when you start the game in Pantheon without enough players. The 'Normal' AI is already penalized by getting less gold or experience compared to a player. AI will never be as good as a player anyway, to compound it with a tangible penalty is insane.

Since 'Hard' AI is the first AI to have no tangible penalties, it should be the 'default' AI used when someone drops or when you need a sub in Pantheon. This really needs to change.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Replacement AI shoud be at least Nightmare. Our group of people, most of which were not in beta, can already take on more Nightmare AIs in a compstomp than there are players. Once we get better with our characters, Nightmare will be 'normal' difficulty.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I reccomend this. Sure, there are noobs, but honestly, you can play single player if Hard is a challenge for you..

PLus is it me or does the AI get smarter as the difficulty ramps? Maybe we could get a nightmare AI, but without all the ridiculou bonuses it gets.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I endorse this post.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I 100% agree

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

make it hard, not nightmare..

 

current state of average online player, hard AI is already better them lol.

 

it would be an advantage to have your teammate drop out eh ? lol

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Nightmare definitely. But really, the only difference I notice is that Nightmare uses better favor items. Definitely not Normal AI however.

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

Stardock comment from another thread:

 

That should already be that way. T-Man and I have defaulted it to Nightmare since yesterday.

Bara
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Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Nightmare, hard, normal. It doesn't matter. Bots will always be gankfests because  they are stupid (understandably). Nightmare just gives them more money to have a chance to win even if they are dumb. Not fun IMO.

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

Nightmare is the closest you can get to a player, and should really be the default player replacement yes. If you aren't good enough to beat a Nightmare AI, you would have gotten your ass handed to you by a human player in any case. Even if you have the natural gaming talent of a heavily sedated hobo, once you've played the game a while, you'll be better than a Nightmare AI.

Normal AI like a conveyor bringing you free gold and xp. Maybe it would be challenging if you had two broken arms.

For custom games, there should be an option to set the replacement AI difficulty level, but the default should still be Nightmare.

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

AI really needs new scripts, I don't care which difficultly they contribute nothing to the goal of completing the mission except for conquest and they just compensate for bad AI scripts with the old hacked AI of give them more resources...