How is the game AI right now?

[Yolo$wagger]

I do remember the AI getting a massive upgrade a couple months ago. Now how did that work out - can the AI actually compete with your average player without cheats?

[Chap]

it can now, but you'll need at least commodore difficulty for it to be challenging in any way

[Unimportant]

You can see there are a lot of people got stomped by AI and come crying on the forum, so I will say yes.

[Ragnarr Loðbrók]

The A.I gonna swag the yolo crap out of you :P

[HappySack]

The AI was improved so much that a new lower difficulty was needed because the filthy casuals were complaining too much.

However without mods it still falters by the time the crisis comes into play.

[Kapika96]

It could compete with the average player without cheats before. The average player isn't good...

Now it can compete with a competent player though, yes!

[Xaphnir]

Yeah, if things go right for it the AI can keep up with the player at least well into the mid-game, assuming the player is competent but not going out of their way to min/max.

[Yolo$wagger]

Originally posted by Ragnarr Loðbrók:

The A.I gonna swag the yolo crap out of you :P

Impossibru!

[Ninethousand]

3.5.3 AI is amazing.
3.6 AI is a potato again. Game changed too much. AI doesn't understand. Also AI cheating seems to have increased to make up for the fact that they can't design ships anymore.

[Yolo$wagger]

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

3.5.3 AI is amazing.
3.6 AI is a potato again. Game changed too much. AI doesn't understand. Also AI cheating seems to have increased to make up for the fact that they can't design ships anymore.

Oh really? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell. And here I thought finally Paradox has nailed the AI.

[frowningmirror]

The AI has infinite alloys now

[TehJumpingJawa]

Mediocre at expanding.
Poor at war.
Terrible at developing planets. (which has the knock-on effect of making planet automation features completely useless for the player).

Grand Admiral has essentially Infinite resources yet with a random Empire start I've caught, or overtaken them all by 2300.

Sadly there really aren't any galaxy settings that deliver a good gameplay experience.

[Yolo$wagger]

Someone needs to finance a Deep learning AI for Paradox games. Google, I dare you to do it!