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Game is too frustrating to test

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Okay, this is might be just me but I thought I should be fair and at least post why. I haven't been testing much because I get frustrated at each and every game and just rage quit.

Why? Because the AI is stupid but it "Cheats" a lot.

The civilization AIs are just stupid. Ceresa is trying to be a warrior and just fails. They pick weird mixes of gear and items that don't do well. But what they do do is get a free pass from the wilderness. I'll just start clearing an area of monsters to place a city there and in wanders a pioneer and sits down right next to a Dragon, Demon, or Elemental Lord and gets generally ignored.

On the other hand, I get attacked by a pack of Demons while my sovereign is racing to get to level 7 and they wander through and destroy a couple outposts, ruin a city and surrounding terrain and wander off ignoring the other civilizations. I can't do a lot of civilization planning because the other sovereigns are too weak to offer a challenge and the wilderness just idly destroys me for no reason when it feels like.

I like the mechanics and I think the game is making good progress but I'm taking a break until we get a better AI patch.

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting lhetre, reply 25
what I do : stay one tile away from monster lairs, pay attention not to extend your ZOC over a monster lair and they will not come after you
End of lhetre's quote

This! Sometimes I blanket the area around some of the really tough monster armies, just so the AI doesn't come along and drop an outpost on them. Meaning sometimes I am burning pioneers making outposts just for blocking land around these guys and getting no resources in return.

Also when building cities near monsters, if they are VERY tough, I don't build there, if just so-so and I'll have a shot at taking them down soon, I'll just be careful with placing city buildings to not let my ZOC extend over that until "I" am ready. Most of the time those monsters will sit in their dens/lairs happily doing nothing until then.