You bring up a good point. Even having color-themed names (Crimson for red, Leaf for green, Azure for blue) would be a good way of handling it. I'd also like to know when and why they choose to trade, especially since they never seemed to repurchase stuff from me. Side note, but having a popup or tooltip explaining how much gold someone can ask for if they make a counteroffer would be nice, since it's different for different deals.

1. I believe it's in part due to civilization naming schemes still being works in progress. 

2. If you go to the diplo screen and check the tab above the AI character, it'll display their "traits" and you'll see both of them are set to Casual, so yeah. It also seems military wasn't one of the main focuses of this particular demo, which is a bit of a shame, but sure.

Having played the earlier OpenDev release, I had a massive advantage over the AI in fights. I can't believe they've deliberately made the AI worse, so I have to believe that it's just down to the very easy difficulty. I had one single scout beat up on about 4 different armies who kept attacking him.

I'm guessing they're doing this for all the people who haven't played before - there's a lot of systems and I'm guessing being steamrollered wouldn't be fun.

I probably won't play again because it was too easy, but hopefully the full release will have a bit smarter AI given that's all strategy fans really want deep down.

Oh, and should add, I was very happy that Amplitude kept improving the AI in Endless Legend after release so they do understand this.

punkass wrote:

Oh, and should add, I was very happy that Amplitude kept improving the AI in Endless Legend after release so they do understand this.

Ehhhhh...yes the AI was dramatically improved in EL post launch. However, the game did not start with any AI to speak of. The AI in EL at launch did not know how to play the game. That was taught over the course of many months of patches and then feedback and more patches and then...nothing. Fortunately we had LeadeEnemyBoss's fantasitc community patch to thank for an AI that doesn't just roll over and kill itself (they really should integrate his changes into the main game).

In ES2 it was a lot better but still not perfect and there are a lot of hitches in the more exotic races. I'm not expecting too much but I remain hopeful.

In any case. I am kind of interested to see what kind of AI Amplitude can come up with when everybody plays mostly the same way on the same playing field on account of we all are the same human race.