Our AI system also uses a collection of different ‘personalities’ that will vary, depending on what civilization it is, what the player’s strategies are, the RPS (rock-paper-scissors unit relationships), the Crowns system, the map type, the weather, the sorts of attacks are brought against it, etc. Our programmers added an algorithm that forces the AI to mimic how a human player would try to extrapolate the location of your base, based on where and how often it begins to spot your units. For example, instead of just pumping out military units and sending them off to your base, the AI builds up battalions and armies, then waits to use them until it’s most advantageous. We’ve designed it to approach all of these tasks like a human player would. EE2’s AI has a multifaceted goal-handling system: resource gathering, map exploration, city-building, territory acquisition, technology progress, diplomacy, unit production, and more. The first part of doing that was designing it to NOT do any of the things I just mentioned. Ian Davis: The first step was to make an AI that doesn’t cheat! We know – there’s nothing more frustrating than realizing that your AI opponent doesn’t have to gather resources like you, epochs up every time you do, and automatically knows where you are.įor Empire Earth 2, we’ve designed an AI that plays that game like a human player. Si: In what ways will the AI be improved, can the AI adapt to players strategies? I found an article from Strategy Informer where they interviewed the developer and he said it didn't cheat.
Of course, I'll at least play through the campaign anyway, but multiplayer games are probably out of the question now. I had all possible contact points with the enemy AI walled and well defended, when suddenly a HUGE fleet attacked me from the ocean in my rear which was not connected in any way to the enemy base! Cheater! I purchased EE2 and have played enough of the campaign now to know that YES, indeed the AI does in fact cheat in EE2 just like it did in EE1.
I guess no one knows the answer, so I found out for myself.
So, I'm wondering, does EE2 have this same "feature", or is it more realistic and fair? It took all the fun out of the game for us. For example, when you have the AI player all but completely destroyed with its army wiped out and only a handful of buildings left, suddenly on the complete opposite side of the map it would have built up a huge city/settlement with many fighting units. My family used to have great fun with Empire Earth (1) LAN games, but eventually we got tired of it because the AI always cheated when it started to lose.
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