Is the AI Cheating in M2TW on VH?

**DukeKent** · 04-19-2007, 02:29

Is it cheating by the AI that allows an AI faction the following?
Settings VH, VH, Turn 100, AI faction is Spain
1. The faction has only had one Fortress at Toledo and no cities for better than 10 turns. The Income is supposedly 1350 florins per turn.
2. The only port for that lone fortress has been blockaded for better than 10 turns.
3. This faction fields 2 armies. The first army consists of 2 Family Members (@250 each), 2 Feudal Knights (@250 each), 1 mailed Knight (@250), 5 dismounted Feudal Knights (@225 each), 1 javelinman (@100), 1 Almughvar (@150?), 2 peasants (@90 each), 2 Jinrettes (@150), Crossbowmen (@100), and a second army consisting of a family member (@250), 2 feudal knights (@250 each), 2 javelinmen (@100 each), 3 peasants (@ 90 each), and 1 catapult(@150 each)
Total upkeep of Army 1 ~= 3255
Total upkeep of Army 2 ~= 1370
Grand Army upkeep per turn ~= 4625

That is better that 3 times what a human player could afford per turn playing as Spain. Sounds like cheating by the AI to me. Whats your take on it. We all know that this is just a game so that's not even head down that road.

**nikolai1962** · 04-19-2007, 02:31

The AI gets extra cash on VH.

**HoreTore** · 04-19-2007, 02:31

Yup, they get a money boost on VH.

Btw, you forgot about the kings purse here, for spain, that's 2500 per turn.

**DukeKent** · 04-19-2007, 04:13

Where is the King's purse shown at?

**General Zhukov** · 04-19-2007, 05:24

I would hope it cheats on VH. Money plus lots of other advantages, to at least have a shot at being competitive with the player in the early stages. That said, usually the only way to get a really hard game in these empire sims is through modded campaigns with scripts designed for the purpose.

**RickooClan** · 04-19-2007, 07:27

Originally Posted by DukeKent

Where is the King's purse shown at?

Push " f " on your keyboard and it will show you the finance scroll which you can find the king's purse there.

btw, anyone know on VH how much extra money the AI got? And if all factions have the same amount?

**Shahed** · 04-19-2007, 09:56

I don't know how much extra it gets but King's Purse is different for every faction.

**Lusted** · 04-19-2007, 11:45

Kings Puse for Spain is 2500 per turn.

**Sentinel** · 04-19-2007, 11:47

From the Descr_Strat file.

Kings Purse 500 denari ? (florins)
Slave.

Kings Purse 1500
France, HRE, Sicily, Scotland, Moors, Egypt and Papal States.

Kings Purse 2000
Milan, Turks, Denmark, Byzantium and Portugal.

Kings Purse 2500
England, Spain, Venice, Russia, Poland and Hungary.

Kings Purse 3000
Mongals and Timurids

Kings Purse 10000
Aztecs

Towards the end of my VH/VH England campaign I exiled the Pope to Ajacco. He was the only unit garrisoning the settlement and had no PO or financial trails/retinues.
I had a fleet blockading the port, 3 assassins destroying all his building, and 5 spies causing unrest.
Yet he still managed to keep the PO at 105. Had an income of over 2000 and support 4 full stacks on the mainland.