AI barely makes military

[Pedro!R]

Played 2 games against AI (1vs1vs1vs1) in Standard and Moderate difficulty and in both i noticed that the AI barely makes military units.

Both games were pretty similar. I first took the enemy near me (that had some units but nothing special, i had a lot more and i didnt really focus on it) and then i waited a lot before going after the others and both barely had units, some siege and like 10 horses lol.

[Dayve]

I honestly don't know what everybody is doing to make the AI screw up like this but I've been playing games with the following rules:

Ludicrous map size
Black Forest map
Hard AI
Standard start and end date
200 population
Conquest only
And so forth

AI is making infinite units and collecting between 45,000 and 60,000 wood and food, 7,000-8,000 gold in an hour, building huge cities, sending huge endless streams of archers, skirmishers, pikemen, unique units, onagers, knights and so on and so forth and fighting is raging between all 8 civs all over the map.

[Moe Wave]

I've had the same as OP. Last game I had the AI on hard and all I ever had come attack my walls were six archers and one ram

[Cryptic]

i had a "huge" army compared to you guys come and attack me... 4 longswords, 1 ram, 3 scorpions, and wait for it............................................................. 6 crossbows

[Sikret Kamuflađič]

I bet those 6 crossbows were a game changer lol

[Cryptic]

♥♥♥♥ yeah they were... they took a whole 3 shots from my 1000000000000000000000 castles!

[DeepInvader]

Just had a game:

Team Island
Hard AI
300 pop


AI didn't do anything really and some surrendered after killing 10 Civs during imp

[OutCome]

I play with 3 friends vs 3 moderate AI's, they rush both of my friends and basically kill them off and then they do nothing for the rest of the game. I can make like 200 paladins and destroyed everything no contest. The AI start off so well, but then they just stop making armies.

[Raigavin]

Looks like its time for OpenAI to take part in AOE2.

[Cryptic]

The ai in the game is like fighting a mentallychallengedwordhere squirrel...

[Kinvadren]

I'm nothing special at all when it comes to playing this game, but even I'm finding the AI to be really easy on Moderate difficulty.

The most obvious issue for me is that the AI hardly produces any units. I've been playing 1v1 and started playing 1v2 (still on Moderate). By the end of a game I'll have killed hundreds of AI units with just a small army because the AI is only producing very small numbers and sending them just a few at a time so they're easy to pick off.

I haven't tried hard mode yet, or tried going back to the HD AI (which I remember being way harder). I don't know if this is that the AI has been dumbed down or if something is just plain broken in it. Because the AI's economy seems to be fine. They're just not concerned with combat.

[Cryptic]

Hardest is the only time they'll "try"

[Kinvadren]

Heh, yah I've played a number of games vs moderate and their largest army never goes above 30 units, and that includes defensive units still wandering their base.

[phobos2077]

It seems experience with AI is wildly different for different people? That's weird. I saw a number of letsplays from respectable streamers (ZeroEmpires and SpiritOfTheLaw) and they show a competent AI which always dominates against the old HD AI.

Maybe there's some bug that breaks AI in certain cases? I really hope that's the case and we can all enjoy superior AI in the future updates.

[Dayve]

Originally posted by phobos2077:

It seems experience with AI is wildly different for different people? That's weird. I saw a number of letsplays from respectable streamers (ZeroEmpires and SpiritOfTheLaw) and they show a competent AI which always dominates against the old HD AI.

Maybe there's some bug that breaks AI in certain cases? I really hope that's the case and we can all enjoy superior AI in the future updates.

That's what I've been saying. I only play on hard difficulty and always on maps with no water, but the AI is spamming units like hell and fighting all over the map.

[joker]

Also having issues with AI doing practically nothing on moderate, I'll check out hard next.