wheeledwriter

Reply to DEV DIARY ESCALATION #1: The great map rebalance! in Escalation Dev Journals Stardock.net Forums

Probably the wrong place to mention this, but not sure where else it would go. The King of the Hill Scenario is just completely broken under Escalation - you can't setup defenses properly as the updates to defenses in Escalation clash with the restrictions imposed by the scenario. I am aware that KotH is AI only, but I avoid PvP cause I feel if I can't routinely beat a normal AI I don't qualify for PvP and I only beat the AI's on normal about 30% of the time... (

Reply to Coding frustrations with AI in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The interesting thing about this: I play on moderate (everything) as Cesera and since 1.3 have noted that AI mobs ignore AI cities and go out of their way to attack mine. This was not happening pre 1.3. It's gotten to the point where I have founded cities, had the local Mob trash them and return to base. An AI player then runs in and steals the location - and the Mob ignores them, but if I move my troops anywhere near the AI city the Mob comes st