I'm pretty sure the AI is kinda OP ..

[Obscure-Reference]

I bought this game a few months ago.
I played a few matches with some factions on Normal and .. Yes, you guessed it, I always lost ...

Because I was kinda bored today I started the game and played on EASY with the Fallen Lords.
At first I thought "Oh My God, I'm such a Pro I beat the AI in early game!"

About 40 minutes later I encountered an enemy faction and yes, you guessed it again, they completely owned me really really really hard ..

Stupid Elven!

Now I'm sad and fully convinced that the AI cheats ...
What can i do?

[Groo the one]

Train Endless Legend, other gamers complain about AI is too easy ^^
AND read game guides, for to have an idea about how to prevent to loose against AI.

[indraf]

I assume you just yet to grasp some core concept of the game, the game didn't tell you anything you need to know to have a successful empire. The "Normal" difficulty is honestly already pretty easy when you get hang of few important concepts of the game.

my few tips:
1. good cities make your game feels good
2. dust income is VERY important. Everything has upkeep, especially heroes and city improvements. You also need to buy any important resource you are missing. You essentially cannot have too much money.
3. IMO, the most important thing to have in your city is BOTH huge dust income and huge industry.They won't dissapoint. Everything else you need will surely follow.
4. Always upgrade your army equipments, even without strategic resource equips. Their stats bonus (especially armors) is too big to be ignored.
5. Always keep unused armies in the city, they cost additional upkeep when roaming on the map.
6. Early on, anomalies are best terrain tile, but later, the best would be Rivers and Seas/Lakes, this is due to numerous buildings that can grant them silly amount of FIDS yeald.
7. If you have Shifters expansion, be sure to gather pearls and see what they can do! they have immensely powerful building buildable only with pearls.

[player1]

One more thing to add.

Plan to buld some units during each era, since every folloup era increases industry cost of units. So if there is like 3 or less techs needed to jump to next era, try to fit here time to build some units even if not needed immediatelly. Use end of first era to get more settlers and some basic army against neutrals.

Easy begginer error is to get too fast science progress, compared to rest of your economy, so that your industry can not support building units quickly when you really start to need them.

[Migz - DH]

Originally posted by Ekrexor:

Because I was kinda bored today I started the game and played on EASY with the Fallen Lords.
[...]
Now I'm sad and fully convinced that the AI cheats ...

Actually, on Easy, the AI is handicapped, and human players get bonuses.

It isn't until Hard or higher that the AI gets bonuses and human players get handicapped.

[ElPrezCBF]

Panczasu makes some good guides for beginners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQGrSHFIIew

[Obscure-Reference]

Don't understand me wrong .. I know how to play games like these and I've done everything i could but the AI is just better than me ..

[Nozeminer]

The very first game I've played was on the lowest difficulty which basically means that the only way you might loose is to spam the end turn - button without doing anything else until the game is over.
That way i could take my time to do all sorts of quests, experiment with units, research and build things and to get the hang out of how to properly handle the city placement and other stuff, all without any interference.
I admit that it is kinda boring compared to anything above normal but at that time it helped me a lot in learning the different game mechanics.
I guess that is what this difficulty is ment for anyways
After that you probably just should increase the difficulty every time you've won a game. .

[Obscure-Reference]

Are there more things to do than just building your cities, getting owned by stupid elven and then
I'm just asking because i payed about the same money for CIV V and CIV V has more .. content ..
Don't understand me worng i'm not trying to be rude but are there more things?
As of yet i played with every race ( with most of them until end game ) and they pretty much all felt the same ..
They all have the same tech and all races have 3 units + some additonal demons or monsters.

Is there like some kind of secret feature or is this one of these games were you play like 100 matches but all on higher and higher difficulty?

I'm not really a person who playes the same stuff again and again and again in the end the AI just starts to cheat after hard ..

[ElPrezCBF]

Originally posted by Ekrexor:

Are there more things to do than just building your cities, getting owned by stupid elven and then
I'm just asking because i payed about the same money for CIV V and CIV V has more .. content ..
Don't understand me worng i'm not trying to be rude but are there more things?
As of yet i played with every race ( with most of them until end game ) and they pretty much all felt the same ..
They all have the same tech and all races have 3 units + some additonal demons or monsters.

Is there like some kind of secret feature or is this one of these games were you play like 100 matches but all on higher and higher difficulty?

I'm not really a person who playes the same stuff again and again and again in the end the AI just starts to cheat after hard ..

If you played every race and felt all played the same, that's the reason why you lost. This is not a Civ clone where you either turtle or blitz your way to victory period. If you truly explored every faction, you'll know each one has certain unique techs despite sharing many common techs with other races. Sharing common techs is not a weakness but necessity in any 4x game where every faction has certain fundamental needs like growth or making money. You'll also know that every faction in EL plays very differently except Mezari which is just a Vaulters reskin.

Try watching more youtube let's plays by good players for basic and advanced tips to improve your game. The EL wiki is also useful.

[Obscure-Reference]

Thanks! I guess I'll give Endless Legend another try.

[ElPrezCBF]

Glad to help. Another thing is you can identify techs unique to your faction only by their yellow background. Most of them are worth researching early to unlock special buildings/new units.

[indraf]

To be honest, CIV V is better in telling you what you can possibly do in the game compared to Endless Legend, as that was my initial reaction too. But as I play more and more, I understand how Endless Legend really plays and begin to love it more and more.

Good luck with giving it another go!

[Obscure-Reference]

Me? This my first post on this .. forum i guess ...

[Paintbrush Poltergeist]

They used to be REALLY easy back when I began playing. They're harder now though.

Still, the hardest AI in this is child like compared to normal or above in Endless Space. I've never won one game in that. lol

[76561198077783272]

Originally posted by Ekrexor:

Me? This my first post on this .. forum i guess ...

opps wrong person. srry