How do you feel about the death of AI factions?

[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)

[moonburn]

actually one of the things i hate the most is when makedonia and epirus die in my kh campaigns instead of moving to greater hellas and asia minor and fight and weaken up my opponents

it sucks mainly because then i have to fight the romans and pontians as soon as i have a border and it sucks while if they survive they tend to be less prone to fight me

if playing makedonia it´s also sucky because the kh tends to get hallicarnassus so they keep the seulekids egyptians and pontians all entertained while i build my massive army \o

[Arjos]

That's exactly it, I don't want world domination, and I really hate any AI super-power with endless, pointless stacks either of mercs or of elites...
Sometimes the campaings where I play as a little kingdom with the only goal of survival are the most enjoyable...
I love when I manage to keep protectorates for decades...

[Drunk Clown]

That's exactly it, I don't want world domination, and I really hate any AI super-power with endless, pointless stacks either of mercs or of elites...
Sometimes the campaings where I play as a little kingdom with the only goal of survival are the most enjoyable...
I love when I manage to keep protectorates for decades...

Goal of survival? What's there to survive? Are there that big a threats in your campaign?

[Andy1984]

Feelings?


It depends. If an AI-faction on the other side of the globe get's wiped out, I don't care. The only thing that goes through my mind is: who gobbled them up, and who'll I be fighting when (and if) I finally make it to that part of the world? As I play with fog of war and I mostly don't bother exploring faraway territories, the death of a faction is often the only bit of information I've got from them. Why should the Arche Seleukeia even be bothered when tribes like the Arverni perish?

If it's an AI that put up a really good fight, which massacred legion after legion, I'm happy. The faction went down in an heroic struggle. Nothing wrong with being exterminated that way. Whether the Lusotanni or the Aedui deserved any Roman mercy is for historians and/or filmmakers to decide.

If it's an AI that didn't put up a decent fight, I feel sorry for 'blitzing'. I'm even likely to leave them alone. Contrary to others, I don't punish the AI for organizing kamikaze-missions against my well-defended outposts.

[Arjos]

Goal of survival? What's there to survive? Are there that big a threats in your campaign?

It's quite fun, one as the Getai was pretty hard, but the best one for me was to play as the Luso with the only goal to control Hispania except the mediterranean coast ^^
While with any faction in Hellas it always ends up with me conducting punitive expeditions both in Illyria and Asia Minor to "free" the Greeks...