It's just not fun to be in constant war all the time

[GFX707]

Maybe playing for a Prestige win will alter the AI's tendancy. I'll give that a go, but if that doesn't help, ETW is getting shelved and uninstalled.

I totally agree with your post. I have played prestige a few times and the AI is just as suicidal and aggressive in that gameplay mode.

[Hooahguy]

I totally agree with your post. I have played prestige a few times and the AI is just as suicidal and aggressive in that gameplay mode.

just to point out, military acheivements is the biggest prestige factor.

[FactionHeir]

Hmm for me the enlightenment always seems to be 50%

[MasterPhantom]

Yes, unless you have a lot of money and troops to toss around, not an good idea!!

[Claudio]

To the people saying that the games are named Total War and therefore the way the game is is how it should be, then you obviously never saw any of the advertisements for the game. In the months before the game was released CA released several trailers showing us how the AI would be superior to any other game in the franchise, how diplomacy was going to be very important, how the player could focus on 3 different ways of dominating their neighbours. Through military, industrial or enlightenment means.

Every trailer didn't simply hint that there were different ways to play a campaign, it outright SAID there would be different ways to play the game other than mindless conquest forced by the suicidal and unintelligent AI.

So please stop with this old, arrogant argument that the games are named Total War and therefore should be about nothing but war, because even CA themselves said this wasn't so in 3 of the 5 trailers they released before the game went on sale.