Oh btw before we start I was playing on normal difficulty and normal combat.
At the year 1621 and until 1628 (current date in game) and every year either Netherlands or Sweden want to resign. I have tried checking how much money they have in Diplomacy on month 12 and they both have over $1 million in cash. They are both ranked the lowest of the AI players but according to the stats I am the lowest of all players. I have 4 of the Indian ports and 10 ports in total spanning Africa and Arabia, but almost all other ports are still available to be taken by any of the AI. Yet each year either one of them resigns and I cannot find a good reason for it. They are not going broke or losing money since they have far more than me and I cannot believe in year 1621 they have such huge bills its going to drain $1 million from their account and end of year.
In 1621 nobody else had any ports but me so again they had no huge expenses to worry about apart from fleets, and the buying/selling of trade. End of that year Sweden resigned. Luckily I had a saved game a few months before so I reloaded, I took a port and gave it to them, and gave them 200,000 cash and asked nothing in return. That still failed and they resigned, I tried it several more times and then finally it worked, but wtf Netherlands then resigned instead. So I reloaded and gave them both ports, gave them both money and nothing in return, offered them Pact's so there was no problem for them getting around at a descent speed. Yet a few times either one would still resign. I ended up closing the game down and coming here and other forums for a while and when I went back for some unknown reason they finally both stayed in the game. So I kept going, 1622, same problem, either one wants to resign for no good reason. 1623 same thing. Now at 1628 and every single damn year either Netherlands or Sweden resign despite me handing over mountains of cash and giving them as much assistance as possible. I checked diplomacy month 12 making sure it wasn't a cash problem. Checked none of the other AI players were taking out there ships but no they weren't at war or hostile with anyone, neither was I.
I know your asking why I am so worried and want the AI to stick around since my ultimate aim is to wipe them out but you see I feel its way too early in the game for them to be resigning, I mean its only been 20 years (long time I know but 20 years out of the full 150 years 1600-1750). I want them to stick around because in my opinion the more competition the better and I want a challenge late in the game, not everyone disappearing so quickly. This game seems absolutely determined that who ever is ranked lowest in terms of wealth for AI MUST resign even though they have no logical reason for it.
I have played a previous game till 1720s and by that time there was only 2 AI left and it was kind of boring since their performance was so poor compared to mine. Why bother with a Ship of the Line 90gun when the only others who have such large ships were infact the pirates (and I'll talk about that in a minute). The game just seems to be over way too fast in terms of the competition, I'd like to see most of them survive until 1700 at least, giving me 50 years to still beat them one way or another and providing me with more reasons to spend $$$$ on large warships.
Why do AI give up so easily and so soon???? I cant find a single problem with them.
Ok on to pirates. 1700 and the 90 gun ship of the line becomes available, 1700 6 months a pirate attacks me with a ship of the line 90 gun.......wtf......how? even if I have unlocked and began building one immediately it would take anther 15 months for one to be ready, how the heck do pirates obtain that ship so soon??? Also why are pirates more capable of getting good ships than the AI cause I never saw a single AI player with anything larger than a Galleon.
I've tried the game on the hardest settings but this does nothing to change the problems I've outlined above, they get freebies in terms of their trade but they still do the same stupid things, giving up early in the game, and no idea how to put together a good fleet. Why is it games always talk about improved AI and yet the only AI we ever see is infact none at all, there is no intelligence there, they need massive cheats and even then they are easily beaten. Don't give them freebies, program them to understand the game, take ports, build large fleets, upgrade ports, and as long as you have enough cash for trade use the rest to build, buy, expand and dont just resign because your at the bottom of the list. As long as they are making some small amount of profit, why resign, just work harder and get to the top of the pile.
I have enjoyed EIC but damn its a frustrating game for many reasons. One of its big failures is just how quickly its all over, how many games are interesting or challenging by 1700 let alone 1750??? Not too many I'd suggest.
At the year 1621 and until 1628 (current date in game) and every year either Netherlands or Sweden want to resign. I have tried checking how much money they have in Diplomacy on month 12 and they both have over $1 million in cash. They are both ranked the lowest of the AI players but according to the stats I am the lowest of all players. I have 4 of the Indian ports and 10 ports in total spanning Africa and Arabia, but almost all other ports are still available to be taken by any of the AI. Yet each year either one of them resigns and I cannot find a good reason for it. They are not going broke or losing money since they have far more than me and I cannot believe in year 1621 they have such huge bills its going to drain $1 million from their account and end of year.
In 1621 nobody else had any ports but me so again they had no huge expenses to worry about apart from fleets, and the buying/selling of trade. End of that year Sweden resigned. Luckily I had a saved game a few months before so I reloaded, I took a port and gave it to them, and gave them 200,000 cash and asked nothing in return. That still failed and they resigned, I tried it several more times and then finally it worked, but wtf Netherlands then resigned instead. So I reloaded and gave them both ports, gave them both money and nothing in return, offered them Pact's so there was no problem for them getting around at a descent speed. Yet a few times either one would still resign. I ended up closing the game down and coming here and other forums for a while and when I went back for some unknown reason they finally both stayed in the game. So I kept going, 1622, same problem, either one wants to resign for no good reason. 1623 same thing. Now at 1628 and every single damn year either Netherlands or Sweden resign despite me handing over mountains of cash and giving them as much assistance as possible. I checked diplomacy month 12 making sure it wasn't a cash problem. Checked none of the other AI players were taking out there ships but no they weren't at war or hostile with anyone, neither was I.
I know your asking why I am so worried and want the AI to stick around since my ultimate aim is to wipe them out but you see I feel its way too early in the game for them to be resigning, I mean its only been 20 years (long time I know but 20 years out of the full 150 years 1600-1750). I want them to stick around because in my opinion the more competition the better and I want a challenge late in the game, not everyone disappearing so quickly. This game seems absolutely determined that who ever is ranked lowest in terms of wealth for AI MUST resign even though they have no logical reason for it.
I have played a previous game till 1720s and by that time there was only 2 AI left and it was kind of boring since their performance was so poor compared to mine. Why bother with a Ship of the Line 90gun when the only others who have such large ships were infact the pirates (and I'll talk about that in a minute). The game just seems to be over way too fast in terms of the competition, I'd like to see most of them survive until 1700 at least, giving me 50 years to still beat them one way or another and providing me with more reasons to spend $$$$ on large warships.
Why do AI give up so easily and so soon???? I cant find a single problem with them.
Ok on to pirates. 1700 and the 90 gun ship of the line becomes available, 1700 6 months a pirate attacks me with a ship of the line 90 gun.......wtf......how? even if I have unlocked and began building one immediately it would take anther 15 months for one to be ready, how the heck do pirates obtain that ship so soon??? Also why are pirates more capable of getting good ships than the AI cause I never saw a single AI player with anything larger than a Galleon.
I've tried the game on the hardest settings but this does nothing to change the problems I've outlined above, they get freebies in terms of their trade but they still do the same stupid things, giving up early in the game, and no idea how to put together a good fleet. Why is it games always talk about improved AI and yet the only AI we ever see is infact none at all, there is no intelligence there, they need massive cheats and even then they are easily beaten. Don't give them freebies, program them to understand the game, take ports, build large fleets, upgrade ports, and as long as you have enough cash for trade use the rest to build, buy, expand and dont just resign because your at the bottom of the list. As long as they are making some small amount of profit, why resign, just work harder and get to the top of the pile.
I have enjoyed EIC but damn its a frustrating game for many reasons. One of its big failures is just how quickly its all over, how many games are interesting or challenging by 1700 let alone 1750??? Not too many I'd suggest.
