Posted on: October 12, 2022
PoisonInThePen
Games: 68 Reviews: 2
AI cheats constantly
The game's creator gave interviews when this game was released boasting about the sophistication and cunning of the AI. It's a lie. While you are restricted by fog of war, the AI is not and can see everything at all times. Rather than process all turns at the same time, the game allows the AI to see what you're doing and react to it on the same turn. Since all players, AI or human, are restricted to recruiting a single unit per turn, the AI can prevent you from winning by simply spending the entire game recruiting gangs into one of your areas every single turn, non-stop, for the entire rest of the game while totally ignoring its own territories being taken by other AIs (who will then use these resources to clobber you). In short, this game is among the worst examples of fake difficulty. This might be tolerable if the game's creator hadn't lied about it and pretended he'd coded some kind of brilliant AI when he'd simply allowed the computer to constantly and blatantly cheat. You can demonstrate this simply for yourself by playing any game variant which requires actual strategy rather than just straightforward kill-them-all to win; the AI becomes hopelessly incompetent. The game can be fun if played with other humans, but don't rely on the AI to provide any kind of fair challenge when playing solo.
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