Accounting processes for computer factions

[octo]

Hi,

I was wondering whether the computer controlled factions follow the same accounting processes as human controlled factions? The reason I ask is that about 10 years ago the Golden Horde re-appeared (with 13,000 men - is this usual?) and about 5 years later they had forts in several of the provinces in which I destroyed all the buildings and then abandoned. I would have thought that the support costs for their army would have made them so in the red that they wouldn't have been able to build anything ever. How does that work?

Cheers
Rich

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

The answer to your problem is that when they spawn, they have in excess of 200,000 florins. That's why they don't have any problems building in the first few years... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

BTW, welcome to the ORG http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

[octo]

Ah, that explains it http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Thanks. Still, even 200,000 florins can't last that long with that army.

And thanks for the welcome http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Rich

[Oaty]

Well on average for me most of my armies averages about 1 florin of upkeep per soldier so the A.I. is probabaly close to the same upkeep wich would equal about 13'000 florins in upkeep and along with there income sould easily give them 10 years of spending money

[Kaboom]

I think even the computer sometime are rich, like the Italian, they don't maximum troop production and buildings. Why? Where is their money

[Ludens]

Your computer opponents are rather wastefull. In the first version of STW the computer could deficit spend. This was removed by the expansions (some people feel this made the game too easy), but hordes were still possible.
I think that by preventing deficit spending, the program has swung too much to the other side: not spending all its money.
It is one thing to program a computer to imitate a general, but quite another to have him imitate an accountent.