AI aggression

[knoddy]

Has anyone noticed if the AI aggression has actually been improved with the patch. Do AI factions who stay at war for years and years actually exchange territory now (russia and ottomans, france and england) just to name a few.

this has supposedly been fixed but i gotta head to uni so lets see wot results people are getting. ill update when i get home and give it a go :D

Cheers Knoddy

[The Spartan (Returns)]

It has in fact. Playing on VH/H, after my first turn as Poland, Prussia immidiately blitzed and took East Prussia from me. UP and Spain also went to war pretty soon afer. So far, Courland is really tearing up Sweden, so I don't have to worry about fighting them... yet at least. Russia has also been trying to take Crimea to get access to the Black Sea, and failed so far. Crimea is a very important region to me and Russia. Whoever gets it, can finally open up sea trade routes and really increase wealth.

So the campaign is a lot more fun now.

[Slaists]

I'm playing France on H just to test things out (the whimp that I am). The AI is DEFINITELY more aggressive from turn 1. By turn 3 I am at war with: the Dutch, the Iroquois, the Innuit(!), and Austria... None of those wars I started. On top of that, wars are happening left and right and even the barbary pirates have started to raid my trade ports in earnest...

As a highlight of the day: the pesky Dutch declared war on Spain (hoping to take Belgium). I guess, they did not expect France to join. Anyway, France (me) is besieging the capital in Holland. The Dutch sally. There is a small Spanish outfit in the nearby town, but the do not join the fight. "Cowards!" I think to myself...

I soundly defeat the Dutch, but... alas, a few battered militia units escape. Siege continues. What do you think, happens on the Spanish turn? They attack the town with their small outfit that refused to fight the big battle. Even with me backing out of the battle they take the city!

Sneaky Spaniards! ...

I say: it's a wonderful patch! Great work CA! Great work, Lusted!

[TB666]

Another confirmed, tried Sweden VH/VH.
By 1702, Denmark, Poland, Russia and Courland declared war on me and unlike before all of them attacked me.
Courland even managed to win a fort battle against me.
Being lazy at the start doesn't seem to be a option anymore.

[knoddy]

while these do seem like positive signs, AI aggression towards the player wasnt an issue i was interested in. While it does seem like improvements have been made ill have to play my campaign a bit after uni. I wanna see if the ai will attack the ai instead of just endless meaning less wars.

ill get my beefed up saxony protectorate to attack someone and see wot they can come up with :D

Cheers Knoddy

[seireikhaan]

Confirmed. Started as the Dutch. First turn, Prussia is at war with Poland, and Russia is at war with Austria.

[Dayve]

Well, the Austrians are ripping into the Ottomans in my game, and the Prussians are ripping into the Poles.

[stufer]

Hi chaps

I haven't had a chance to properly try the new patch yet. Could anyone tell me if ai factions make peace with each other now? I consider this to be a bigger problem than their aggressiveness level. Thought they were fairly aggressive before. But the constant war meant they could never develop their economy properly.

In several campaigns, countries would just stay at war with each other until one of them was destroyed or the game ended!

Cheers
Stu.

[Dayve]

I can't really say if they make peace or not yet because i'm only up to 1705, but their agressiveness definitely has more of an oomph.

In the game i'm playing right now i've seen Austria dismantle the Ottoman empire in Greece, Prussia tear into Poland's western territory, and i'm currently trying to save the 13 colonies from extinction, with the French moving and taking land in the north, the Iroquois from the west, and Cherokee laying siege to a city in the south. But i don't have any money to give and it's too dangerous to send troops by sea because everytime i try to reinforce my navy from Britain the French sink it.

An army is slowly making it's way from Rupert's Land to help them, which leaves Rupert's Land hardly defended against the Huron, and now the AI actually ferry troops around i can't leave Britain undefended incase France or Sweden land soldiers on it.

My empire's a mess...

[knoddy]

I can't really say if they make peace or not yet because i'm only up to 1705, but their agressiveness definitely has more of an oomph.

In the game i'm playing right now i've seen Austria dismantle the Ottoman empire in Greece, Prussia tear into Poland's western territory, and i'm currently trying to save the 13 colonies from extinction, with the French moving and taking land in the north, the Iroquois from the west, and Cherokee laying siege to a city in the south. But i don't have any money to give and it's too dangerous to send troops by sea because everytime i try to reinforce my navy from Britain the French sink it.

An army is slowly making it's way from Rupert's Land to help them, which leaves Rupert's Land hardly defended against the Huron, and now the AI actually ferry troops around i can't leave Britain undefended incase France or Sweden land soldiers on it.

My empire's a mess...

this sounds good and the way it should be to be honest :D

im glad the russian full stacks are finally taking ottoman provinces in my game, the ottoman towns in greece were barely defended and i was sick of russian full stacks sitting in my provinces doing nothing.


edit: the marthrans are smashing the mughals in india, fleets are actually fighting there are battles everywhere BIG BIG improvement on the game imo

great patch :D

[anweRU]

tedit: the marthrans are smashing the mughals in india, fleets are actually fighting there are battles everywhere BIG BIG improvement on the game imo

The Maratha-Mughal wars were always very active in my games. I don't think this patch did anything to change that.