I once saw a video presentation of Sid Meier talking about what he learned talking to playtesters. It was mostly about people being angry about low odds of los

I once saw a video presentation of Sid Meier talking about what he learned talking to playtesters. It was mostly about people being angry about low odds of losing a fight actually prevailing, so the game shows fake probability to the point you'll lose 90%-chance-to-win fights way less than 10% of the time. But he did tell one thing that really disincentivized him from pursuing a smarter AI: when the AI does something brilliant, people just assume it's cheating.