Re: What's up with the A.I.?
Its the "black knight" AI effect. Present in most TW games, i think in ETW its particularly pronounced.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
its really annoying. I hope they fix it in Shogun. self preservation takes precedence to nationalism.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
I think it was fixed up some in NTW. In ETW the game will take actions to frustrate the player.
Suddenly everyone turns on you without visible cause, pirate fleets attack only you. It is like the game’s god is out to get you.
If you have not played in a while VH/VH is just asking for things like this to happen.
All diplomacy is useless and never auto resolve.
Normal is the balanced level and the player hate goes up by large magnitudes in H and VH. Forget how you played all those before. It has changed.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
The same thing happens in all other TW games - in BI/RTW try taking the Huns or Vandals and just stay where you are - sometimes you'll see that for many turns there are no other wars -all the AI factions are basically waiting for you to move.
The Ai factions do try to get the player after he reaches certain size levels, but in other TW games this was slightly less pronounced and a bit more intelligently hidden than in ETW. M2TW was also pretty bad in vanilla, but the Ai files were available and so the AI could be calibrated at will by modders - maybe the same was/is possible with ETW, but i wouldn't know.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
Well, to my pleasant surprise, the Russkies do know how to negotiate, once their national pride has been stomped into the ground. After Taking Kiev in addition to Moscow, they came to me asking for peace.
Now the Poles, who entered a non-combat war with me due to being an ally of Russia, are suing for peace and giving more and more money in the offers. lets see how much they give me before i decide to take their whole damn country...
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
And you had us all worked up in grumpy mode! :laugh4:
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well it's better than i thought, but it is still a bit ridiculous. I suppose though that nationalism could've carried them on until their loss of Kiev.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
Suppose, suppose... because what other choice do you have? :)
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
My guess is that the Russians will break the peace before long even if it doesn’t look like a smart move for them. Enemies are implacable until annihilated.
In a Prussian campaign of mine the Russians sued for peace on three occasions and reneged every time. And this was on normal AI.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
Actually so far they haven't been showing any signs of aggresiveness. of course they do have no more cities and are thus limited to militia.
Lotso rebellions from Moscow, but the tax is high enough that it pays for a standing guard of Dragoons to protect it.
Poland is about to get its ass handed to it, im already cutting a swathe through their land.
For the record, I would far prefer if on VH campaign AI, instead of being overly agressive and unreasonable, they actually created armies. I mean, I by no means blitzed Russia or Poland. Poland was at war with me for several years before I attacked them, and their greatest resistance thus far has been 4 line infantries and a cavalry unit with some firelock armed citizens. Russia at the time of my attack had several under-staffed armies waiting at my borders (for what I wonder? 2 line infantries coulda beat most of them), and about 3 years between my DoW and taking Moscow to prepare a defense.
I mean come on now, the only really big battles are naval battles versus pirates, and i suck at naval battles so those are no fun. I would very much like to use this full stack of elite troops please, and not for garrison duty/taking out a city with a grand defence of 4 militia's and some citizenry. *sigh*
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
What can you expect? The game is effectively broken AI wise just like every TW game.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
I don't believe it, a lost soul wondered in the parliament ;P
The AI is to aggressive on VH that's true but on lower difficulties it's better. Of course this is in comparison with the rest of the series.
Try darthmod if you want added difficulty without a gun-ho AI.
Oh, welcome to the .Org.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
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Peasant Phill
I don't believe it, a lost soul wondered in the parliament ;P
The AI is to aggressive on VH that's true but on lower difficulties it's better. Of course this is in comparison with the rest of the series.
Try darthmod if you want added difficulty without a gun-ho AI.
Oh, welcome to the .Org.
Another lost soul here.
I STRONGLY suggest Darthmod as well as he has done wonders with the stupid vanilla behavior in terms of Diplomacy, TAC AI and Strat AI.
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
Darth continues to work on improvements. Here is the latest:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=489350
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
did he ever change his mind about working on NTW?
Re: What's up with the A.I.?
I don't believe so. Just didn't grab him. Didn't grab me either. But the Napoleonic era just never did. Shame about that. SO MUCH content.