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A very different, way simpler, but easier and still enjoyable game is Megaglest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaGlest
The homepage seems dead these days though. I hope they didn't abandon the project.
I should give it a try again, last time the AI beat me so badly every try...
This is one of the nice things about this game: that it challenges your sense of time value. If you stay in your base and keep expanding without attacking, the AI exponentially grows and takes over easily. But if you sacrifice resources to destroy more resources from the opponent, it will almost feel easy to play.
Can someone recommend a game that has challenging AI? An example would be Starcraft 2.
(a) has advantages the player does not (b) has an APM beyond what most players do
Which is standard for video game AI but you highlight SC2's AI as if it is relatively standout.
Contrary to what some people might say, there was no zeroth year.
I liked it a lot, however to me after the earliest scenarios it becomes really hard even at lowest difficulty levels, so I pretty much gave up on it until the low difficulty lower levels become playable by non gamers like me. A very different, way simpler, but easier and still enjoyable game is Megaglest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaGlest The homepage seems dead these days though. I hope they didn't abandon the…
This is one of my favorite games. It's what AOE III should have been. I still think there should be some kind of Kaggle competition for training AI on this game.
I actually love AoE III but never did much with 0AD. Does it have much of a multiplayer scene? Are there any sites to look at good build orders. I might have to try it again.
I just play with friends and sometimes against the AI, so I haven't checked out the multiplayer scene. It looks like there are several build order YouTube videos and threads on Wildfire's forums, though.
We always see Hellenized / Romanized versions of other lands (e.g. "Persia", "India", "Africa") so it's nice to see the release nickname reference the eastern name for Ionia.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliodorus_pillar
Can someone recommend a game that has challenging AI? An example would be Starcraft 2.
Challenging how? SC2's inbuilt AI is pretty predictable - at harder levels it can only compete because it: (a) has advantages the player does not (b) has an APM beyond what most players do Which is standard for video game AI but you highlight SC2's AI as if it is relatively standout.