How are AI nation pts decided?

[dustysniper]

I was wondering, when I make a custom nation and play random nations. How are the AI pts decided? Say if I put it on easy well the AI get large nations also? Or is it completely random?


I posted this previously but cannot locate it so sorry if you answered.

 

[josh127]

We played on Very Hard and the AI nations appeared similar to when we played on normal. My guess is that they're the same and only your values are changed.

 

[dustysniper]

Mostly just unlucky for me than. Ive formed 2 games with 3-4 super nations at the start.

 

[josh127]

How super of super nations? I've had 3-4 in every game that I would consider super nations. China always seems to have at least one, but unfortunately it's big enough that it sometimes has two. I also had a Viborg that was basically Muscovy/Novgorod/part of Sweden that made me sad I was playing on the north of the Black Sea. Same game saw a Romagna(sp?) that had half of Italy, and somehow ended up with most of Hungary and part of the Balkans not long later. They turned out to be a lucky, but I don't know how much of that they started with vs possibly took shortly after start (would have had to have been in the first 10-20 years).

Not sure if those qualify like what you're seeing, but they've been pretty strong, especially those china nations. *shiver*

 

[Strangedane]

My best worst experience was a very bloated Armor.
The entire french region, the lowlands, half of spain and southern england.
It started with 97% trade power in the channel and 100% in bordeaux.
Scary stuff for my sweet little Canaries.

 

[Dnote]

You should see Arumba's multiplayer game of EUIV, he ended up with a beast of a country next to him. Even if that country's NI were poor, the sheer amount and value of land made him the BBB of their game.

 

[dustysniper]

Well I remember the most recent one. Their was basically a formed Spain France and Great Britain and they all allied at the start A Super blob out east I couldnt totally see which was almost modern day Russia from my vision and their was a 30 stack on the border.

Ha I just formed a Scandinavia nation. And right below me their was basically a commonwealth and to the east Russia. Their starting force limit cap was 54 and 63 mine was 28.

 

[hashinshin]

Play with 400 points.

Turn lucky nations + AI bonuses on.

Deal with the mega empires of doom. Hopefully your 400 points give you something to work with!

 

[LordAnubis]

After running into a few annoying massive starting blobs that make the game unfun and with the addition of a random button for Nation Ideas during custom nation creation, I've started to make my neighbors by hitting that random button a few times and then spend the rest of their points til they hit the point cap on land.