cheating "ai"

[Horschdt]

at which "difficulty" level does the enemy not just plainly spawn in units and rush me to death no matter what? i can deal with "neutrals" but every single faction on a normal setting getting 10+ units at turn 30ish is just ridiculous. kills the fun and makes me just quit and never come back. there are hundreds of games i can chose from, and this is not how i want to spend my limited amount of free time.

[['w']]

So far I only played as undying soldier, recruiting commander and Valkyrie and two cyber heroes, maybe I should also recruit the two Voice heroes, strangely there are no rules which forbid that

worst case, I would even consider building a city next to them

[just.dont.do.it]

Originalmente postado por Horschdt:

getting 10+ units at turn 30ish is just ridiculous

No, it's not. If focusing on unit production, you can quite outdo that.

[Luward]

Originalmente postado por Wondervice:

I think the game explicitly states that the AI does not cheat at normal setting only on the ones above.

So confirmed AI cheats on higher difficulties instead of Gitin' gud?

[Wendek]

Yes, like in literally every strategy game ever. The cheats are kind of mild in this game tbh, it's "just" loyalty (which translates to X% more resources gained per city) and free starting xp for their troops. But there's no intrinsic buff to their units' stats for instance, or free additional cities like in Civ.

[Horschdt]

Originalmente postado por Wendek:

like in literally every strategy game ever.

No. Just in civ and the even more lazier clones. Because the devs are just that . lazy. why write differnt code for different difficulties if you could just add a multiplier.
And because of people like you, this will never change in civ style game.

[Luward]

Originalmente postado por Horschdt:

No. Just in civ and the even more lazier clones.

I don't play with cheaters. Because of this policy I haven't been able to play a single strategy game for years. The computer is a cheating bastard.[tvtropes.org]

[sIg3b]

Originalmente postado por Horschdt:

i was just waiting for that someone who posts this. get gud.. thanks mate.. have to be a pro like u, should be plaing the game at least for 4 years before saying a single word. u know what? f*ck off. I had a bad feeling about the game from the start and after 5 starts with every single "outcome" being exactly the same no matter what i do (tech, spam, diplo) its just is frustrating beyond reason.

Come on, man.
I won the tutorial and then won my second game on hard difficulty, with only 10hrs experience.
It´s not Zephon, it´s you, sorry!

[Luward]

Originalmente postado por sIg3b:

Come on, man.
I won the tutorial and then won my second game on hard difficulty, with only 10hrs experience.
It´s not Zephon, it´s you, sorry!

So are you a pro gamer, AI isn't a cheating bastard, or both?

[sIg3b]

Originalmente postado por Luward:

So are you a pro gamer, AI isn't a cheating bastard, or both?

What exactly do you mean by a pro gamer?

AI gets slightly higher loyalty and experience on hard. But the game tells you so, I don´t consider that cheating.

[Luward]

So the AI gets a handicap, not extra dmg, HP, production, movement, population, etc.

[sIg3b]

Yes, though loyalty is a modifier for production & research. So +10% loyalty translates into 10% extra production and research in the early game. It´s like having 1 1/2 free loyalty buildings.

Experience bonus means all AI and neutral units start at Level 2 at hard difficulty, meaning they have slightly higher attack and toughness until you catch up.