The game in question is yet to be released.
I don't see how keeping the old engine as base, and adding more shit, tells anything about their stance on SP AI. While patching Dom3 they did bugfixing and added more content, of course they'll do much more than that with the new release so I don't see how AI and improving SP in general couldn't be on the to do list too.
"I'm just being edgy", what a lameass copout. I'm not treating your opinion as infallible gospel, I'm just treating it like it's your actual opinion.
MP is predictable? Most nations are not one trick ponies, and especially the ones that are (say EA Abysia as an extreme example) need to diversify eventually (and rather sooner than later) to have a chance against a good opponent who reaches a counter to your one trick. By summoning mages and troops with your pretender for example, before tarts too since next to no nations can actually reach Tarts (+GoH/Chalice) natively anyway.
Kristoffer.Osterman said:I didn't realize it was possible to deduce their origins or flavor from that single screen
Ur is a nation of wild men (Enkidus) and their first city. They are influenced by early Sumer, the Gilgamesh epos, Athrahasis and other mesopotamian stuff.
The enkidus also appear as slaves in the Hinnom rooster. They are ogre-sized rather than giant-sized, but larger and stronger than humans. They are a conversion from Enkidus of the aforementioned Illwinter project.
And since it is absolutely unavoidable that 99.9% of the game's content is doomed to be suboptimal and cost-ineffective, I want someone to employ that content when I don't.
They are predictable strategically. Like, if there is Nifelheim on the map, you can bet your arm and leg a "challenging" player will have a E9Nx pretender and will spam niefel giants like there is no tomorrow. The burritos guarantee jaguar warrior spam and fire bless, etc. Access to magic and items is also all but predefined by nation's mages and by pretender (who is originally all but predefined by nation's most cost-effective unit). Sure, they eventually diversify... to summon tarts, wish for chayots and forge the same 2-3 combinations of items. Yawn.
Curiously, half the threads on patches/balance/requests on Shrapnel boards sum up to "bawww, do something so that people would occasionally field something other than tarts by the lategame". So far, nothing worked, even the ridiculous "shattered mind" (retrofitted specifically to nerf tarts) only meant you need 25% more backup tarts.
Sure, on tactical level, you can be dramatically surprised by anyone, anytime, but strategically you always know how every "good player" is planning to develop, because any other way for a given nation would be suboptimal. And when a game's main selling point (for me anyway) is having 2000 units, 800 spells and 600 artifacts, I'll take a dumb AI throwing everything and the kitchen sink at me over a smart AI spamming the 10 most cost-effective thingies ad nauseum, any time of the day. In my own little gaming world there is only enough space for one minmaxer
There just isn't so much to respond to in that post. We don't know how their engine is built, but I'd think that changing the AI code is not behind too much spagetti to get to it. And whether they care about AI at all, judging by Dom3 patch history you could just as well say they don't care about improving the UI which was the clear #1 request from the playerbase to improve the game by, throughout the years. As I already said it's not just another patch for Dom3 so not much sense extrapolating too much from those. You don't really have anything solid to back your argument with but your own preconception of how people you've never talked to think. You brought nothing new to the table with your points.
Well first of all the CBM mod diversified the middle/late game a lot in MP. Not to mention that you can just you know play MP with house rules... not hard to set up/find a game with something like -no tarts
They are predictable strategically. Like, if there is Nifelheim on the map, you can bet your arm and leg a "challenging" player will have a E9Nx pretender and will spam niefel giants like there is no tomorrow. The burritos guarantee jaguar warrior spam and fire bless, etc. Access to magic and items is also all but predefined by nation's mages and by pretender (who is originally all but predefined by nation's most cost-effective unit). Sure, they eventually diversify... to summon tarts, wish for chayots and forge the same 2-3 combinations of items. Yawn.
Curiously, half the threads on patches/balance/requests on Shrapnel boards sum up to "bawww, do something so that people would occasionally field something other than tarts by the lategame". So far, nothing worked, even the ridiculous "shattered mind" (retrofitted specifically to nerf tarts) only meant you need 25% more backup tarts.
Sure, on tactical level, you can be dramatically surprised by anyone, anytime, but strategically you always know how every "good player" is planning to develop, because any other way for a given nation would be suboptimal. And when a game's main selling point (for me anyway) is having 2000 units, 800 spells and 600 artifacts, I'll take a dumb AI throwing everything and the kitchen sink at me over a smart AI spamming the 10 most cost-effective thingies ad nauseum, any time of the day. In my own little gaming world there is only enough space for one minmaxer
