Trigger AI

[MikeyD]

I can guarantee that I'm in a minority of one on this, but as a scenario designer triggers frighen me. Triggers add random events that you can't time your AI movements to. A series of triggers would produce a cascade of events that become increasingly impossible to plan around. Let me stress - NOBODY agrees with me on this point(!) in both internal and external debates. They imagine great advances in AI planning, I see increasingly sloppy and haphazard AI design.

You can now work wonders with the current AI if you just learned how to work it. Simply adding reasonable exit after/exit before numbers to the AI orders for example, or painting movement destinations with terrain features in mind. Believe me I could make the AI look thoroughly incompetent if I tried to - I could also thoroughly kick your arse in a battle using current AI orders tools.

[Erwin]

For what it's worth, in CM1 I got tired of playing vs the AI within a few months and have played CM1 vs humans ever since.

However, after 2-3(?) years of CM2, I still get a great game vs the AI and I prefer the speed of play rather than waiting for a PBEM file. So, congratulations on the improvement!

Perhaps if you included a tutorial info re how to best "program" an AI oppo to do the things you say it can do that people are requesting, they wouldn't be harassing you.

Now get outa here and have a few days off, for cryin' out loud!

We'll still all be here bitchin' and whinin' when you get back next Monday.