Easy ai too easy, Normal ai too hard

It's a complain I've heard quite a few times and I agree. What do you think?

Easy AI doesn't really seem to do too much.

Normal AI expands well and if you don't jump on it right away, it will maul you. Frankly I see relatively minor differences in the steps between Normal, Hard and Brutal. The step up from Easy to Normal is a big one.

That said, I'm not entirely sure whether an intermediate step between Easy and Normal is necessary. I see Easy as a "testing" AI where I want to set up a particular strategy to see if it works without pressure. Normal and up I see as legitimate pressure testing of an idea.

Maybe there should be a cheating AI above Brutal level. Say, where it gets an extra 20% income? Or two free facs instead of 1?

I'll play all difficulties again and provide more constructive feedback. For now I just wanted to raise discussion around the subject.

The main first impression is the number of actions it performs per second.

I think the gap from Normal to Hard is pretty big. On normal I won first three missions on first try, on hard I get decimated on first mission. But hard should be hard so I think it's great

Cheating AI would be *boring*. Currently ZK has this thing where we can say that other games made a weak AI and gave it cheats to make it harder, while we made a strong fair AI and had to nerf it to not scare players away.

I would not like to renege on this promise :P

Sorry if I'm late late to the thread, but I want to add a comment.

Beating the campaign normal AI is very easy. Beating skirmish normal AI is very difficult.

/Newbie

well make sucidal ai . brutal is too easy soemtimes i can beat it in 5 mins. someone should make a semi easy ai or hard ai. or just copy godde, mkae an ai out of goode and call it batman ai -_-.

Actually, I'm not sure. It might just be the case that the skirmish normal AI performs very well on certain maps. (Or that I perform very bad.) I should probably be quiet about the AI from now on.