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Totally disagree. Civ increases AI difficulty by gifting the AI free army units, resources and settlers. There are currently no 4x games where the AI can challe

Totally disagree. Civ increases AI difficulty by gifting the AI free army units, resources and settlers. There are currently no 4x games where the AI can challenge an experienced player on even terms - the first game to do this (while also being a good game in and of itself) will be a massive success.

arlcode 4y ago
It would be a major breakthrough if the AI could plausible adapt to the human players. Every one gets a challenge (or not if they chose so). We are probably not quite there yet.
ethbr0 4y ago
My impression was there was a lot of research and competent results in StarCraft AI. And that was 10 or so years ago. Which is more constrained than your average 4X, but not fundamentally different (resource + research + movement + combat).
- Jweb_Guru 4y ago
  Not really. The AI was essentially "cheating" to play inhuman micro, its macro was apparently just as bad as typically expected.
  - ethbr0 4y ago
    I remember (from HN) some genetic algorithm explorations of optimal research/build orders that discovered novel and better combinations then-unknown to the playerbase.
    - Jweb_Guru 4y ago
      That might well be the case, but it didn't translate to realtime play AFAIK.
BlueTemplar 4y ago
Doesn't Galactic Civilizations 2 qualifies ? (Maybe for not particularly high values of "experienced".)
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