Quote Originally Posted by Carl
I'm sorry to say it, but he's right.

Their is actually a mod for DoW that give the games AI a boost, the problem however that this mod team are begining to encounter is that they are limited in how much better they can make the AI because of the performance hit. They've had a few releases now that they've had to hotfix because of lag issues even on high end DUAL CORE systems.

The TW Games are FAR nmore feature packed than DoW and thus doubtless require a very complex AI coding just to get the current level of difficulty. You COULD code a truly challanging AI, but without a system with several multi-core processers in it you could never run it as the performance hit on even a high end home PC would leave the game unplayable.

Why do you think AI desginers have relied for so long on giving the PC more money/recources/whatever and better units when compared to the player in the same situation. It's because it cuts down the AI processer lag.
Don't know if you've ever played Civ 3, but the campaign (or strategy map) AI in that game makes a joke out of the M2TW AI. I'd believe it wasn't possible if I hadn't seen it somewhere else, but it is clearly possible to make AI much more challenging than the current one. So complaints about the shitty AI are very valid.