[ROR] Easiest AI has a Largest Army 8x larger than normal AOE2 Easiest AI

Thunderforge8 · October 19, 2023, 6:22pm

GAME INFORMATION

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GAME BUILD #: 101.102.30099.0 (#95635) 12417304 (October PUP)
GAME PLATFORM: Steam
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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When the difficulty is set to Easiest, the AI in regular AOE2 (i.e. medieval era) builds a max of 5 military.

However, in Return of Rome, the Easiest AI builds far more. In a recent game, it built 42 military!

This also appears to happen in higher difficulties, but I have not thoroughly tested it.

A similar problem happens for max Villagers: high of 9 in AOE2, high of 26 in RoR. But that’s a lesser impact since the military is what ultimately will make the game difficult for other players.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

Switch to Return of Rome mode
Start a new Skirmish with the AI set to Easiest
Let the game play out.

In the attached replay, I went for a Wonder victory and sent a token unit or two to harass the enemy (and accidentally made Yellow resign, but Green got to 42 units).

EXPECTED RESULT

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The number of units trained between Return of Rome and normal modes are similar. The AI will train very few (about 5) on the Easiest difficulty, and a proportional number for other modes.

IMAGE

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Return of Rome - Largest Army is 42

Normal AOE2 - Largest Army is 5

GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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SP Replay v101.102.30099.0 @2023.10.19 112327.aoe2record (10.1 MB)