Out of curiosity, what did you do to make the Dead actually work under the AI?
Rotlung
Wow these are really good observations. I hope the devs take a look at it. Regarding walking to a loot location but not picking up the loot, I've experienced this before myself. If I landed on the location while on the way to another point, I would not trigger that location. So sometimes I need to walk out of the location and revisit it to trigger it. It would be nice to have a way to revisit the location you currently are at (HoMM3 had this quick revisit location button imp
I guess to make them more playable by the AI, there could be a way to mod the race to not have the Undead ability. They lose the graves concept and the improvements (plus the undead horse) but they have growth like the other races. Alternatively, you could mod the vanilla Dead faction to have Death Worship so they could use Corruption. While this would be mighty useful for the player, I don't know if the AI is able to prioritise corrupting shards and using Morrigan's Call on its citie