Impossible for AI factions to win BI?

[Red Spot]

I think more about it in a way that it isnt much fun to lose the game after you've spend days building an empire without knowing what an other faction on the other corner of the map is doing, till you lose the game ...

I mean in Rome if the AI can win how realistic is it for them to get 50 regions??
Goals in BI seem to be shorter and much more likelly for the AI to do, so I guess its just a way of making sure that when the random odds turn on you for a moment you dont end up losing the entire campaign, and I'm not even mentioning the possible .. er .. delays that hording can bring ... ;)


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[snevets]

Think about it this way- in BI, the factions are far less balanced. Rome is huge, which either means that it's easy to steal provinces from or a province eating monster depending on the difficulty level. It wouldn't make sense to have an AI Rome victorious just by conquering more of sarmatia and taking the other capital of the empire, because we all know it would've taken alot more than that. Making it impossible for Rome to win if you're playing as a faction other than Rome makes some sense. Also for hoard factions it may take awhile to get wherever you intend to establish a new homeland, and to have all the other factions working toward their goals for 50 turns before you get to start yours would be irritating.

Even still I agree it removes some of the fun.

[Red Spot]

Even still I agree it removes some of the fun.

That I find strange, I mean someone just happened to stumble upon this by not actually playing the game himself, how does it remove the fun, without reading the topic you'd never now, without someone using the ai-switch it might have never been known ... ;)


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[Barbarossa82]

Well I would say it removes some of the fun by giving the player a sense of invulnerability in that he doesn't need to worry about what the other factions are doing. I think you're probably right about the reasons it was done, but then they should have made the victory conditions tougher for all factions.