Well, I'm through with the game

[PvK]

I enjoy both SP and MP, but I mainly choose SP, largely because of time limits and the ways I enjoy playing. It's challenging if you know how to enjoy a game by playing it thematically, with creative settings, house rules, mods, roleplaying, etc.

[Agema]

Sure, the AI isn't brilliant. But it's enough to give you a run for your money and have fun exploring the game. You can get more hours out of Dom3 than your average first person shooter, without ever doing MP.

From independent to mass-market strategy, AIs of about human level are in perilously short supply. Your average strategy game is massively more complex than chess, and when you consider how long and how much effort it took to get good chess AIs, expecting it of computer games - especially when they have to code the rest of the game and think about the next title as well - is a MASSIVE ask.

Be thankful that the AI doesn't just gormlessly dribble on you a bit before falling over it's own shoelaces. If it can challenge you in the learning curve and keep you busy when you're reasonably experienced (as Dom3 can), the designers have done enough.

[Aezeal]

Be thankful that the AI doesn't just gormlessly dribble on you a bit before falling over it's own shoelaces --> mictlan

[Sombre]

AI EA or LA Mictlan doesn't dribble on you unless it's by total accident and it's a /very/ small map. It's almost always dead long before it gets the chance.

[lch]

I think this post on the SA forums sums up quite nicely everything there is to say about the Dominions AI:

Bouquet posted:

The AI is not a highlight. It's enough to keep someone like me who doesn't have consistently available time for multiplayer entertained, but there are quite a few strategic nuances that the AI doesn't really understand and can't effectively defend against. The AI tends to be better at massing troops than most humans, though, because most humans don't have the patience to collect troops from every territory.

If you are a king of strategy games and want to be challenged, you will need to play humans eventually. If you just like stomping on thousands of human infantry with your unstoppable horde of angels/devils/zombie gods/zombie woolly mammoths/tarrasques/things man was not meant to see the AI can keep you entertained for years.

[Zeldor]

I have found that Better Independents mod really gives you challenge against many mighty AIs, especially when you take Drain scale.

[Alderanas]

or if you want more of a challenge then download the single age mod and put all the nations that would use death scales in the game.