How do you feel about the death of AI factions?

[Cambyses]

Well, in general Im happy as the fewer factions there are, the quicker the turns are calculated. Also, if Im growing into a massive superpower its kind of nice to have at least one AI faction that is doing the same, so that the end game can be a bit more competitve and challenging. There are plenty of ahistorical annoyances about the AIs expansion beahviour, but then again the human player is capable of expanding to places that the AI never can, so I see it as a kind of necessary evil in order to give the AI enough resources to provide a proper challenge.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Well, in general Im happy as the fewer factions there are, the quicker the turns are calculated. Also, if Im growing into a massive superpower its kind of nice to have at least one AI faction that is doing the same, so that the end game can be a bit more competitve and challenging. There are plenty of ahistorical annoyances about the AIs expansion beahviour, but then again the human player is capable of expanding to places that the AI never can, so I see it as a kind of necessary evil in order to give the AI enough resources to provide a proper challenge.

Agreed, when I played Baktria I faced a Western Roman Empire (excl, North Africa, Illyria and Britannia). In the future I will face even a bigger one with my AS campaign.

The same went for my Romani campaign where at one point, the world was divided between me and the Grey death. Good times, good times.

~Fluvius

[Arjos]

I really don't like seeing factions die...
Sometimes I went to war just to stop one faction destroying another, but in the end the AI ruins everything :P
BTW yes the map must be tilted towards the north XD

[vartan]

@OP: Did you mean to say what* I think* about blabla? or did you really mean feel?

I ask because I have empathy for living beings, especially humans, but not the slightest sympathy for non-living things, except for artwork (which could be in the form of fine arts, performing arts, architecture, etc.). So, in this case, I have no sympathy for ones and zeroes that my computer processes.

[Jebivjetar]

When a faction dies, i feel horrible and deeply depressed. I even suffer terrible nightmares, can't eat, or drink, even sleep for days or even months after that. Even now i cry and my face is full of tears; yesterday, Aedui passed on during my Carthaginian campaign

[QuintusSertorius]

@OP: Did you mean to say what* I think* about blabla? or did you really mean feel?

I ask because I have empathy for living beings, especially humans, but not the slightest sympathy for non-living things, except for artwork (which could be in the form of fine arts, performing arts, architecture, etc.). So, in this case, I have no sympathy for ones and zeroes that my computer processes.

I mean how do you feel about it from the perspective of it having an impact on your fun. Not empathising with some fictional entities.

[vartan]

I mean how do you feel about it from the perspective of it having an impact on your fun. Not empathising with some fictional entities.

I know. I am sorry for intentionally derailing this baby. It was only a matter of time before my friend would come and reply with his own fictional account of how such events as AI factions' deaths bring him much depression. I was simply waiting for it.

Now that this baby's back on track, I couldn't give two ***** (I forget, why can't we swear in these forums?) about the death of AI factions. Since I'm a person more engraved in 'reality' than in the virtuality that is Europa Barbarorum, I don't RP much and as a result all I care about is victory, whether that means accomplishing VCs or my 'own' VCs, which of course in turn translates into not caring whether or not and how this or that AI faction is wiped off the face of the planet.

[Drunk Clown]

...all I care about is victory...

Indeed, total annihilation. I don't get why you want to let them live, having a single green, red, white (depends on faction) spot on your map or just one beautiful color either way the faction is of no capability to do something.

Don't you, when roleplaying, got to have at least 2 parties? If you do it alone, it's like playing with an imaginary friend, it's all coming from you. So you know how it ends, you already know everything. No wondering "Hey! How would the war go on between Bactria and Saka?" (with Fog of War on ofcourse, and you playing as Casse) and when you are finally dead you find out Bactria for instance has won, but instead you keep an eye on them and you know no one will be defeated in the end. Sort of an anti-climax

(I forget, why can't we swear in these forums?)

Oversensitive people.

In a nutshell: I wipe my butt with the AI ( ahem... well, scrap the I)

[Blxz]

Agreed, when I played Baktria I faced a Western Roman Empire (excl, North Africa, Illyria and Britannia). In the future I will face even a bigger one with my AS campaign.

The same went for my Romani campaign where at one point, the world was divided between me and the Grey death. Good times, good times.

~Fluvius

I am exactly the reverse, as you have already seen in my thread. A western roman empire excluding africa, spain, illyria and britannia VS a massive, evil AS of doom. Maybe the AI is channeling a bit of fluvius? Its certainly going for a World Conquest.

As for AI faction death? I cause most of them. I will specifically chase a war all the way to conclusion in an effort to beat them, ignoring convinient rebel territories until I control the entire area. I find that I have developed a bit of a taste for all the pretty 'faction defeated' popup screens. Plus I hate being attacked by the enemy.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

I don't like AI factions being killed off by other AI factions, and I will do what I can to prevent it.

The only power that has the right to kill off another faction is me!