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Jim D Burns -> RE: AI (5/24/2013 9:01:50 PM)
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I've always found the AI adequate in DW if you allow automation to handle most things (keeps you even with the AI limitations such as they might be). I generally only micro-manage one or two attack/assault fleets and let the AI handle just about everything else. I do use the alert message pop-up settings so the AI can't do critical things without my OK first, but I probably only turn down 1 in 10 suggested actions, and the ones I turn down usually have to do with signing or nullifying treaties. So it isn't necessarily bad play by the AI, it usually just doesn't jive with what I'm doing or trying to accomplish.
Where I've always found trouble with DW in the past is when my games become so obviously over-powered that I lose interest in continuing. So I'm real hopeful that the new difficulty scaling will help the end game stay interesting longer. But it'll be months before enough people have played that far into a game to get a consensus on that new feature.
My advice is get the game while it's on sale, don't wait. If you already know you like 4x style games, you will love DW. All the new changes and tweaks in Shadows are cool, but the underlying goodness of the game is the same as its always been. Shadows simply adds more goodness to an already awesome game.
Jim
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