Also interesting when you have a mixed stack of resistant creatures with non-resistant in a strategic spell situation.  A stack with an Ophidian in it is immune to some strategic spells (tremor and freeze in my experience).  I can't remember if tidal wave or tornado worked on the mixed stacks...

I have also witnessed the behavior Trojasmic describes in tactical with Ignys and fire shrills vs. fire elementals.

This is how you get immediate action on something!!!

P.S. That was sarcasm. I'm sure at some point it will be addressed. 

I agree with the OP (in spirit), though would like to chime in that the AI has gotten better each patch.  It does make me sad seeing Archers targeted by Beguile and Web.  I have faith it will get tended to ASAP when time permits.  Brad & Co are busy folks.

When people come at you unexpectedly with heads full of steam and vitriol what kind of response do you think he'd give? When the thread on listing 5 things for Modding Changes was moving along, positive responses came from Brad and Derek.  Then the other thread became a bitch fest which looked to kill any good will that was just being made as I'm sure Brad felt like he was being ganged up on.  If y'all did that to me I'd tell you to F' off as well, justified or not.

A professional one.

Or would you expect your lawyer, accountant, doctor, plumber to tell you to 'F off' if you came at them with 'a head of steam'? And would you continue your patronage of them if they did so?

I like SD. I like that Mr Wardell (It feels weird to me to call someone by their first name when I have not been properly introduced to them), Kael and others take the time to interact with the community. I am sure that part of it is for PR/marketing reasons ('Hey the guys at SD are really cool and every now and again they will come on the boards and actually converse with you!'), but I am also certain that part of it is a genuine enjoyment of chatting with the interesting people who make up this board.

I like indie PC gaming companies. I want to support SD. I THINK they are not ready to produce a major game yet; I think they may need one more iteration of a less ambitious game, assess how successful it is, have another round of hiring and then look to tackle the likes of Firaxis or Paradox, making good games with the level of polish seen in games by bigger companies. I think SD is really good. I LOVE the idea of SD. I do not want this post to be construed as anything but positive.

But when Wardell said that he would not WASTE anymore time programming AI, I was disappointed to hear that. I won't buy from EA because of things like abandoning servers or from other companies that end support for one product prematurely to start on another. As I get older, it is not money that is the rate-limiting step in my videogaming hobby; it is time. And if a dev tells me that s/he won't waste anymore time on something s/he created, why should I waste my money or time buying it?

Have we all wanted to tell someone to 'kiss off' when we were irritated at work? I know I have. But for many of us (no matter what we do) we are involved in customer service to a degree. If the situation starts to escalate, the person playing the role of professional should try to deescalate the situation. Silence (on the internet, that is easy to do), give a standard CS line-'I am sorry you were dissatisfied with our product. Is there anything else I can help you with?'

Wardell is an adult. He doesn't need my advice. And my gut feeling is that he is a good guy. He probably behaves the same way he does on the net as he does in real life. That is fine. And I find it REALLY hard to believe that he would jeopardize the good will he has generated over this time by telling us to 'kiss off' and meaning it. If he did,  I'm sure the backlash would be swift, both here and on other forums. What I do know is that LH went from a first day purchase, sight unseen, to me waiting to see if it is worth my money and time because of that statement.

Well, a lot of bugs/misbehaviours HAVE been reported numerous times in a productive way and still haven't been worked on like e.g. the AI settling on spots where no settlement is possible or the webbing/beguiling of units on which this is useless or the AI ignoring threats like its units being pounded while it goes for the unit with the lowest HP or weakest defense. Instead new spells have been added, game mechanics have been been changed back and forth because obviously they haven't been thought through and/or playtested enough in the first place, and such.

I am not one of the people who made ANY demands. I sticked to bug reporting (although sometime I was in error of it being a bug at all *cough* ) But when I see valid complaints being ignored or at least neglected in favor of irrelevant stuff it is quite understandable that those people raise their voice a little more than before.

I've stated this time and time again: I really like what SD (including Brad of course) has accomplished with this game and despite the bugs and design flaws I enjoy playing it immensely. Also I can understand Brad's reaction to a certain degree, but this is not how he should have responded. If he was pissed then he should have logged off, taken a deep breath, think things through and reply in a fashionable manner.

Like I said: I remember having the very same discussion with him after the release of GalCiv 2 and iirc he kind of conceded to my point.

Lets take it a step further and remove the UI then, why should I see bubbles of HP, I can't see these big flowing green boxes when I go outside and look at other people, so why should the game have them.
And how can I just put traits on my trained units? I should at least have to micromanage and give them training courses instead.

I am of course being ironic, the reason the Dragon should know when the enemy is fire immune is, it gives a more fun AI to play against, since it wont be stuck around doing outright silly things again and again.
Meaby it knows because it picked up a dragon tooth of knowing when people is fire immune, or meaby dragons are more intelligent than humans, who knows.

I just know its more fun when the AI uses the abilities in a proper fashion.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Yep great point.  We know what is immune and what is not so the AI "player" should too... after all it's the player deciding what to attack not the dragon itself right.  

I guess you could make and argument that if you wanted more of a simulation kind of feel.... the dragon would try it once... then "learn" that it doesn't work.. then not do it again.  But that's a truckload of effort to get something like that working reasonably well.  I'd rather than time went towards other things and go with the "simple" approach of having the dragon not do it at all in the first place.

I may be in the minority here, but I don't really care about realism.  I'm just here for the game.  If I can see enemy unit stats and make a decision based on them, then my enemies should be afforded the same luxury.  And I really like having that information.  I dislike gambling.  "Is he immune?  I don't know.  I'll just do it and hope for the best.... FRACK!  He is."

I have the possibility (the duty!) to verify the stats of the units that I'm fighting

The AI should have it too - and I'm talking of the duty

My understanding is that LH has a "IsTargetWorthy" expansion.  The AI simply does a GetAIPriority on the target. So it wouldn't be my area anyway to handle.