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See AI section in patch notes.

Given the relatively low number of items, I'm dubious whether there is a bug. This is exactly the same as the itunes shuffle "problem", and Apple came up with various solutions, including (for example) "without repetitions". "Without repetitions" is not random at all, but it may be more what people expect. So two solutions spring to mind for legendary heroes: 1: add more items; 2: add a world option for "no repetitions" for loot drops.

[quote who="cardinaldirection" reply="7" id="3419224"]core files for armor, weapons and items, there are respectively 19, 61 and 44 matches for a total of 124 items[/quote] I was basing my calculations on this. If I got four Uncommon armour drops, what are the chances two would be duplicates? The example given was actually any four out of twenty (when the sample is all uncommon items, i.e. 124), you can work that out but it's a lot harder. Intuitively I would actually expect

Probability is confusing. If I have three dice, the chances of rolling a 1, a 1, and then a 2 are 1/216. But if I don't care about the order as long as I get a 1, a 1 and a 2 (so in other words 112 and 121 and 211 are also valid) then the chances treble to 3/216. If there are 19 Uncommon armour drops and I have two drops, what are the chances both will be Assassin's Vambraces? 1/361. But if I have three drops, what are the chances at least two will be Assassin's Vambraces?

Willie, could I clarify please how much you've played Legendary Heroes recently? Thanks.

I assume the faction you're trading with likes Technology treaties. In some circumstances I believe they will pay you to have a technology treaty.

I did get a lot of Assassin's Vambraces in my last game, I mean like three or four of the darned things in the first 100 turns. Random number generator issues are notoriously hard to prove though, people forget that rolling 1, 1, 1 on three dice is not impossible, just unlikely. 1/216 is not even close to "never". I would be curious to understand the mechanics for loot drops in Legendary Heroes, you do seem to get a lot of the same stuff sometimes. It's possible something is p

I've noticed that zero seems to be negative for treaties. From memory you can see the same thing if you give gold to bring the value from negative up to zero. At zero the AI says No, whereas for other, non-treaty trades zero is ok. I assume for treaties the test is for > 0, for other trades the test is >= 0. Probably not intended, not exactly a massive bug but probably quite easy to fix.

I do build Studies in my Fortresses, but most of the time I build troop enhancing buildings first, and if I need units, I'll be training them rather than building Studies. (The big exception is if my capital is a Fortress, +1 Research at the start of the game is actually quite a lot.) I get the impression that the AI doesn't really specialise its cities like a good human player does. Certainly I've captured large AI cities late in the game which had built almost everything

[quote who="Raiddinn" reply="14" id="3419088"]It takes 4 turns for 25% extra to equal the one turn you wasted doing nothing and the fifth turn puts you 25% of one turn's worth of damage ahead.[/quote] Yes, but it can still be worth casting if you have limited mana or nothing better to do. E.g. melee hero moves towards enemy, not in contact with enemy, can choose to either use throwing knife or casting Focus, (not a Mage so casting ranged damage spells is ineffective and ex

As I understand it each of the factions has a personality which prefers building some buildings to others. I haven't looked at how this works in practice but I assume simplistically that some factions prioritise expansion, some prioritise military units, some prioritise research, etc. This does put the AI at something of a disadvantage against a player who prioritises production maximising and unrest reducing buildings, but it is a valid design decision to not make all AIs play the same.<

Really interesting discussion. Other than Haste I don't cast buffs very often, but that's mainly because I tend to play with Death/Air/Water mages. Life has Growth, Fire has Focus (incredibly cheap and +25% damage is probably worth using a turn). It's Earth who has the best buffs though. I agree the trade-off is between mana cost and other costs, particularly healing units or worse, having a high level unit die. In an average late game battle I might cast only Haste at a cost of 2

My first thought when I read this post was Call of the Titans, which could instantly bring together a lot of enemy armies in your territory. To the best of my knowledge I've not seen the AI cast Call of the Titans, but on Insane, who knows! I would expect it to have researched the tech by turn 100 on Insane. Good luck with the whole Insane thing. The parameters you're using are interesting, I assume the idea is that you have enough space to get established before you bump into

[quote who="Raiddinn" reply="4" id="3418373"]I would hazard a guess that very few players use any buffs other than haste and only then because it is the only buff that doesn't cause a loss of turns[/quote] I don't really understand this reasoning. Some of the buffs (Giant form, Diamondskin) are quite powerful. The AI in my current game likes casting Cloak of Fear, which effectively means my melee units can't damage it for five turns. Focus has its place as a damage multipl

I've had this problem (lack of iron) in maybe one game I've played (ignoring a couple of games where I died very quickly). Provided you expand effectively at the start it's very unusual to be unable to get iron. I have built Infirmaries a couple of times to aid healing of troops, notably when I was playing with Juggernauts and they kept getting splash damage. I have never chosen +2 metal on a city level up. The one exception I can think of is where I was short of iron I wa

[quote who="Raiddinn" reply="50" id="3418328"] Played more turns and it did happen again once that when I was levelling up a hero at the same time as the end of turn was happening it crashed again. Not sure if tech was popping or not. I think it might have been, but I lost many turns from this and I can't be sure how many exactly.[/quote] Post a debug.err and save game in its own thread.

[quote who="Raiddinn" reply="1" id="3418315"] I think it would be an improvement to the AI if they couldn't buff themselves in combat.[/quote] What's your reasoning? I don't understand that. The AI used to over-buff, but I think that's less true now. And buffs can be useful. I don't understand how a blanket ban would help.

If you're winning anyway, what's the problem? Some games you have lots of resources, some games you don't.

Lots in this thread, clearly still a hot topic! In order: Frogboy, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm very impressed by the continuous improvement in this game. I've been playing it fairly constantly for months now, and I can't think of any other game I've played where that has been true; I'm normally distracted by a new game at some point. There are a couple of reasons for this; one is that all the factions play very differently, so com

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="25" id="3418015"]no response from Capitar even tho Capatar declared on me (several times) and is much stronger. This isn't a 'AI is too far away' issue as we have abutting borders/units.[/quote] Is Capitar fighting someone else? I've seen similar behaviour (i.e. I don't see an AI's units even though it declared war on me, even though we have borders) when the AI was fighting another faction. This seems fair enough if the AI

Thanks. Hopefully I will be able to complete my Tarth game now, I had given up on it.

Thanks. Does that mean it's possible to continue an old saved game with the updated version? In general I thought you had to restart a game for an update to take effect.

You need maybe three blockers, but as long as you have troops who you can put on defend while your archers take the enemy down it should be fine. Make troops with leather armour, wooden shields, swords, Ironskin, Defender, Constitution, you should do fine. Summoned troops are also a possibility. Lightbringers, skeleton horde, Cragspawn (cause stinking mud for one tile radius), Earth Elementals, all make good blockers.

[quote who="willie sanderson" reply="14" id="3417653"]I paid good money for a piece of crap and I see it 's still a piece of crap and the devs aren't doing anything to FIX it but put out more DLC and stuff we have to pay for. Who cares about crappy maps when the game is still BROKEN[/quote] Who exactly does have this AI with AAA performance? Civilization on release doesn't. Total War on release doesn't. And those are studios which I am sure have many, many times

Hmm, I suspect they may put that down under "exploits which can be fixed by not doing that"... having said that, maybe there's an easy fix.