DsRaider

Yes, I hope this slow down a.i. they seem rise to power way faster than I'm am, but again I don't spam city, I still had one city but I'm force building city to be strong rather than spam city and often I lose many game because I didn't spam city, and there is no good spot to build city, if I do, then monster do a job for a.i kingdom and empire, while monster don't do slow a.i kingdom and empire for me.

Maybe the monster whose territory is threatened would just need to destroy the outpost/city which caused the pressure on its land, and when its land is again uncontested then return back to its own spot.

BTW I think there are multiple nice changes in 0.913. Much funnier to play! Currently the biggest issue seems to be that once you get some basic weapons technology and squads, then building a couple of units and casting buffs on them will create such a killer stack that it is able to beat almost anything on the map. Maybe the units scale up a bit too much on level-up, and maybe the steps between technologies needs to be just a little bit smaller. Giving +1 attack to a squad is equal to giving it +5 damage if I am not mistaken...

I can't help getting the feeling that FE has started down the same path as many other games, were the game is becoming all about who can build the fastest, and less about tactics.

Yeah, I have noticed this sort of thing happening quite a lot, and it is very annoying.  I sometimes think that the monsters are part of the AI army.

For the most part I think I prefer 0.912 for the game-play and fun aspect even though there are a few nice additions to 0.913.  I am finding 0.913 to be causing me much frustration at times.

Yet the monsters won't attack an AI-run city even if they're within the city limits.  The problem seems to be that to the monsters, the AI-run content--cities, developed resources, heroes, other units--are all invisible.  It's as though the code for this has been commented out.

In any case, I suspect we'll get it back, soon.  Right now, the AI players have a great boost to development.  I've even seen individual heroes running around in AI territory without stacks, going right by Forest Drake armies and the like.

Played a game where one of Altairs cities was protected by a wild shrill lord. It would kill Altair units that attacked it in waves but never attacked the city built nect to it, stopping me from attacking the city becuase it would murder me. AI should:

1) not build outoposts/cities if ZOC is on a monster and if they do than the monster should not be chased away by the ZOC. Instead it should spawn an army to attack the ZOC source. It should not attack itself becuase thats an easy abuse.

2)be better at choosing targets so it doesnt attack shrill lords or other things it has no hope of killing.

I think that when ZoC goes over a lair it's guardians should prioritize attacking the source of the ZoC and then go back to their lair when the ZoC has been removed.

Obviously lair guards not attacking the AI and roaming 20+ tiles need fixed.

Monsters do attack AI cites and units. Maybe not as often as you want them to but you cant say that it doesnt happen at all.

I have seen monsters kill AI units and in the video below, at around 10:13, a monster destroys an AI city.  

In .913 I walked into enemy territory to see a fire demons lair, right next to a enemy town and 3 or 4 stacks of enemy troops.  The fire demon was totally ignoring the enemy town and troops but  immediately made a b-line for me.

The AI in .913 is firmly set on CHEAT.

I am back playing .912 and it is so satisfying to see the AI getting battered by monsters once more.

Well there was a bug fixed recently where the AI's orders would get messed up and they would not leave a city for the rest of the game.

Could there be a similar bug where the monster are having their orders get messed up, and they just wait around until they see a player unit, then they start attacking? 

Is there a way to play with no fog of war (for the player, the ai needs it) to see exactly what % of the time they get attacked... and maybe in what situations. 

Obviously this is something the devs should do. 

I think there must be code in that reduces the odds of the AI being attacked.  Either that or some strange bug.  But it just seems so prevalent that it seems likely that it is deliberate.  But for the AI players to be playing the same game as the human players, they need to be targeted in roughly the same way too.  And I think it's been suggested, said, or strongly implied that the AI should play the same game as the players.  It's not currently doing that.  So I would say the switch or bug that allows AI units, heroes and cities to be (mostly) ignored needs to be fixed.  We just need to discover what's causing it.

In fairness, I have seen a monster mob take out an AI outpost. But never an AI city, even if undefended.

Also in fairness, this is probably a very tough problem to solve for the AI if monsters were as aggressive toward the AI as they are toward we players. Sometimes it may pay off to aggressively found a city within striking range of a tough monster lair. Sometimes it would pay off to wait upon founding the city until the monsters are more cleared out, especially with the ruinous total fertility-razing city destruction mechanic.

With that in mind, I suggest that it would be a good idea to remove the fertility-destruction part of city razing at least for the time being so that the AI would be less penalized when roving monsters do attack them properly, at least temporarily until the game mechanics are worked out enough to develop the AI into something that can somewhat smartly select where and where not to place cities.