Thanks, you know, I’m not sure. Don’t think I did. Doing that never helped before, but I’ll be more mindful of it again, as I had forgotten because it’s been a while since I last played
Regardless, it’s a symptom of the broken system, imo.
- If AI gave chat confirmations when entering 104, I would have immediately known it didn’t work (since no confirmations would have appeared)
- There should be a checkbox in the lobby so you can click it and forget it – rather than having to try to remember in the heat of the match (and spending time in the heat of the match) to do it, and then crossing your fingers hoping you did it the way the game wants and that the AI will respect your wishes.
So many ways this experience could be improved.
- Default the game to 104. This way, if anyone loves the AI folding like a house of cards, they can go try and remember to jump through “105” AI Command hoops during all of their matches, just as I’ve had to do for every match for 104
- I’ll try chatting #104 or *104 next time to reach all AI. Which I just re-learned by Google searching you can use # or * before your chat to message everyone. (Don’t know that I see this info is in the hotkeys menus.)
- Based on past experience, it won’t be that reliable. Nor would AI Commands 104 if you spend time going into the chat menu for that. (Open menu, click “Everyone”, click “AI Commands”, scroll down to “104”, and select that. Go back out to game and see that five of your villagers got pwned by a Mangonel while you were playing the Chat menu mini-game mid-match.)