AI Mictlan is not too bright.

NickW · #1 October 20th, 2006, 05:50 PM

I've noticed in the last few SP games I've played that EA Mictlan tends to implode and die in the first few turns of the game due to lack of dominion. I'm guessing the AI is whipping up dormant/imprisoned pretenders and then not blood sacrificing maybe?

Is this just something fluky that happened to me or are other people seeing this?

Endoperez · #2 October 20th, 2006, 05:53 PM

It has been reported few times. Sometimes spesifically as Mictlan, sometimes as nations in general dying out of lack of dominion.

DominionsFan · #3 October 20th, 2006, 06:00 PM

Yeah, AI has problems playing Mictlan, also it is taking very bad scales many times with any nations randomly. I am sure that the devs will fix these, just be patient.

Quietly · #4 October 21st, 2006, 06:38 AM

Heh, last game I played on a small map vs cpus, wiped out a cpu had about 8 provinces... ran into another cpu, figured he'd have around the same amount, his borders seemed about that size... but I am closing in on him, and I notice there are a ton of neutral provinces around him... I realize his empire is actually cut into pieces, and the neutral provinces are full of barbarians... I have a "duh" moment and check his scales -- turmoil 2, misfortune 3... turmoil/misfortune is flatout suicide with the strength of their turmoil-type invasion events.

Daynarr · #5 October 21st, 2006, 09:30 AM

Uh, I thought that was fixed way back in Dom2. I'd report that in bug thread as this dominion is suicide indeed.

Gandalf Parker · #6 October 21st, 2006, 11:54 AM

Mictlan is one of the harder nations to play for humans. Im not surprised that a general purpose AI doesnt do well with it.

But if someone comes up with simple (3 words, 4 words, one line at most) thing that the AI can do to fix that then Im sure it will be considered for adding.

NickW · #7 October 23rd, 2006, 12:08 PM

I can do it in two words.

Blood sacrifice.

NTJedi · #8 October 23rd, 2006, 05:54 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
if someone comes up with simple (3 words, 4 words, one line at most) thing that the AI can do to fix that then Im sure it will be considered for adding.

I would advise making a change where all capitals cannot have their own dominion lower than 1 for the first 10 turns. This would greatly help keeping Mictlan as the AI alive longer.

dirtywick · #9 October 23rd, 2006, 06:13 PM

I haven't looked at Mictlan yet in Dom 3, but do they still have the site that gives them 5 blood slaves/turn in the capital? If so, scripting them to blood sacrifice every turn with the first priest they recruit wouldn't hurt and shouldn't really effect the game much.

Nerfix · #10 October 23rd, 2006, 06:13 PM

Three blood slaves, not such a huge difference.