Quote Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
vonsch- you can have the same argument with the console, one might say that using the console to do whatever like adding money or moving your generals around is not cheating because it is the ai's fault for not being able to use the console.

What is really tiresome is that so many people complain that the game is too easy yet they use all of these exploits that were never intended to be part of the game like the merchant stacking or rejoining crusade for gaining stats and things like that
Nonsense, Xdeath. It's very clear the console is "outside" the game world. If you can't see that's not a comparable situation, well... ignore the rest of this, it's wasted on you.

And I've said I only use the fort for training merchants, so your argument rolls off me. I'm just pointing out that it's not so clear the merchants aren't working as intended. You MAY be right. But there is evidence to suggest you could also be wrong.

Why are you so vested in being right? If you don't like it and think it's an exploit, don't use it. Don't tell others they can't. It does shortcircuit an annoying and apparent advantage the AI gets. They seem to be successful a lot more often than we are with the same odds. Some of us get annoyed at obvious AI cheats too. We prefer to see smart AI play, not brute force advantages. And I know that smart AI play isn't something easy to develop. Brute force advantages ARE easy.

And I am doing my part to make the game better by testing mods that tweak it. That's more productive than telling others what they can't do.