Helping AI

[BenZL43]

As you all know, AI doesn't realize there's UHV or any other things...
What do you think about helping the AI a bit, gradually, to achieve 1 UHV?
With their luck and coincidence, they might complete the 2nd or even the 3rd without ever needing programmer intervention anymore...

Examples like this :

Flip some cities in Persian area to Samanid at certain year if Samanid = AI and TargetCity = notHuman..

Some automatic war for Ghaznavid vs Sindhi...

City flipping to Delhi Sultanate (as Human can't play it either, a respawn of Ghor) historically.. because its fated feels like Samanid one.. Should be conquering lots of cities, but it's sucks..

What do you think?
Having AI achieved 1 UHV and let them coincidentally do the rest, IMO, is more challenging for Human player, from both the historical aspect, and gameplay aspects..

 

[embryodead]

The reason for the AI not playing for historical victory is that this is beyond human player's control (it's also a lot of work, but that's not that big of a problem). Moreover, the AI is even blocked from winning this way, otherwise, you'd lose the game before it starts (this actually used to happen in early release of SoI - Byzantium in particular would often win 3/3 UHVs during autoplay, so you didn't get to play even 1 turn). This applies to all RFC mods really.

Even if the AI can only win after human player starts, you wouldn't want to play as, say, Mamluks, only to have Sindh win UHV 50 years later, even before you had a chance to contact them, let alone react somehow.

AI wars are programmed actually (in all RFC mods). City flipping for Delhi as well (but Delhi has no UHVs). Timurids and Ak Koyunlu can also flip extra barbarian cities that the human doesn't get, to help them get big fast.

 

[BenZL43]

I already considered that.. that's why I suggest only 1 UHV.. or perhaps not UHV at all.. but just the historical city flipping and historical wars?

About Delhi. IIRC in game, the flipping only applies to the 3 cities in Delhi belt.. Delhi Dharamsala S..? forget.. cmiiw. I'd like to see they reduce the Gujarati, collapse Mewar.. and rule south to Bahmani sultanate before all of them respawn and collapse the Delhi itself

Well, I don't really happy seeing Sindh and Ghazna and Gujarati forming such Shiite-Sunni-Hindu peaceful bond #war! #blood!