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Originally Posted by tiberiu

Chess is more complex then a KB battle so to create a powerful AI of KB is walk in the park compared to making Grandmaster skill chess engine.

Chess is a much less complex game than KB - by far. In Chess, you are limited to 16 pieces total per side, with only 6 distinct movement methods. In KB, there are dozens of unit types, many having unique attack settings. You have dozens of spells that can be cast be either side. You have rage powers that can be used. You've got variable map types rather than a static 8x8 board. The sheer numerical variance of options makes any Chess-style brute force approach impossibly complex. And that's assuming you were willing to wait the amount of time it takes to calculate a move in Chess that's off-book.

There's no chance we'll see an AI that's anywhere near as good as you can get in a Chess program any time in the next decade - minimum.

My viewpoint about this second viewpoint is that it's dumb. Basically, the motivation of it is " I want an easy game don't take away overpowered abilities and don't make AI smarter". Simply wrong.

"Overpowered" as a concept is entirely subjective. The issue isn't whether abilities are too powerful, it's how the AI should react. Or, rather, an alternate way of looking at it is what tools the player should have to handle the AI. Using the Loki's Touch example, certainly it would be easy to make the AI not target the unit that got hit with the ability. And there's no doubt that would make AI armies more potent. But so would doubling all their army sizes. So would giving them all initiative bonuses. So would giving them all double attack/defense ratings.

What it comes down to is whether the AI is being overly hampered by the abilities, or whether they strike a decent balance, and give the player decent options for dealing with the AI.

[quote\Ok, I won't say that the AI sucks, even if it does, but I don't see how saying that would be off topic or unhelpful. The road to progress is paved by heavy criticism. Those who praise everything rarely make the world a better place.[/QUOTE]

It's unhelpful because it's not constructive. You are welcome to say the AI sucks as long as you say why you think it sucks, and what would make it suck less.