AI money too high?

**Lebre** · February 01, 2008, 03:01 PM

isn't the AI money too high?
if you think not look at this and tell me if it is fair I have to fight this genourmous army with only a full stack and a couple more soldiers

i don't know if i should cower behind my walls or hide in a very deep hole:hmmm:

**Tariq** · February 01, 2008, 06:47 PM

Check Ayyubids , if you think thats a lot

They had 25+ stack coming my way once.

Mirage41 said they are working on that for 1.1, i believe.

**~~Miraj~~** · February 01, 2008, 06:50 PM

Are you playing with patch 1.05?

**Lebre** · February 02, 2008, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by mirage41

Are you playing with patch 1.05?

yes

**Ermeni** · February 02, 2008, 07:42 AM

Not fun to play when it gets that extreme.

**Joker85** · February 02, 2008, 08:12 AM

Yeah it seems like a "superpower" is able to produce dozens upon dozens of stacks which is a bit too much.

**Lebre** · February 02, 2008, 09:45 AM

well i got a really good full stack of soldiers to fight them and i'm buidin' up some more, but what really scares me is if makuria or the kypchac attack my frontiers, then that would really be mission impossible.
what i intended to ask is if the scripted money could be reduced maybe to allow them half of this force (yes i've spied and they have a couple more in the fog).

**Joker85** · February 02, 2008, 12:14 PM

It is also a problem that once an AI faction gets to a certain point, and one always does within the first 150 turns, they are near unstoppable and expand expand expand. The Kypchacks (AI) are about to win and its 1275. I think it would be better for gameplay to strengthen the weaker factions rather than rewarding the haves already. As every game degenerates into 20 stack+ vs 20 stack of mega powers that each 20-30% of the world and overwhelm their weaker neighbors.

**~~Miraj~~** · February 04, 2008, 03:50 PM

I agree Joker. I think what I'll do is cut off the settlement income boost we've given to AI factions via scripts after a certain settlement # has reached and perhaps add a deduction for "imperial maintenance". When we start work on BC 2.0 this is the first thing we'll fix by introducing "rebel" factions and a new civil war script.

**Lebre** · February 05, 2008, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by mirage41

I agree Joker. I think what I'll do is cut off the settlement income boost we've given to AI factions via scripts after a certain settlement # has reached and perhaps add a deduction for "imperial maintenance". When we start work on BC 2.0 this is the first thing we'll fix by introducing "rebel" factions and a new civil war script.

I dunno if this is possible but maybe a percentage of corruption depending on the number of settlements the AI has.

**Uandwhosearmy** · February 08, 2008, 03:28 AM

Originally Posted by mirage41

I agree Joker. I think what I'll do is cut off the settlement income boost we've given to AI factions via scripts after a certain settlement # has reached and perhaps add a deduction for "imperial maintenance". When we start work on BC 2.0 this is the first thing we'll fix by introducing "rebel" factions and a new civil war script.

That sounds great and would more than likely make the later game much more interesting. I know I would be more likely to actually finish a game at least...

**-Traiano-** · February 11, 2008, 07:23 AM

in my opinion if the game is harder than vanilla that's a good thing, also in my campaign ayyubid had many full stacks but you solve this problem by fighting with body and mind :O))) with 3 full stacks of mine, well balanced, experienced and at VH level i destroyed dozen of full stacks ayyubids, in the first two years of war they suffered 12.000 casualties, i had 2.000.

**Lebre** · February 11, 2008, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by -Traiano-

in my opinion if the game is harder than vanilla that's a good thing, also in my campaign ayyubid had many full stacks but you solve this problem by fighting with body and mind :O))) with 3 full stacks of mine, well balanced, experienced and at VH level i destroyed dozen of full stacks ayyubids, in the first two years of war they suffered 12.000 casualties, i had 2.000.

yeah i understand that but what worries me most is in the long run it'll be very hard to mantain that force forever as for the ayyubids they'll still send you stack after stack and so on..