Well it's a strategy game too, and strategy gaming sort of demands opponents that put up a fight. No offence KO but SP dominions 3 just isn't as nice to play as in MP (which usually is so IMHO but I mean it's less nice than MP compared to other games (does this make sense?)).
It's your game of course but I think a majority of the people here would think it was a better game if there was some AI behind choosing the scales (or several dozen pre-created pretenders) just becuase it would then put up more of a fight and not kill itself

Other improvemets to AI would also be nice but just the scales would already help a lot.. or the OPTION to select that (as mentioned above).
As MP game I think is a very good game, as SP not so good.
PS I think the original poster of the thread would indeed be best of to forget dominions 3, if you don't want MP (which is great) and don't like the SP (which I can relate to somewhat) then please have fun with other games

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