(05-12-2020, 06:53 PM)Mowgli Wrote: As an improvised remedy, it would be cool if there were more scenarios designed for PBEM in mind. Both sides need to offer interesting gameplay.
The games from Winter War until the end were all designed with both AI and PBEM in mind. When the testing team put them through their paces, PBEMs were played to try to balance the game from both sides. The earlier games, (ES, AoTR, VN and TOD, PW and PAF) stock scenarios are not well balanced at all. A lot of the custom scenarios are. A rule of thumb in most cases is that if you're playing versus the AI, always be the attacker. The AI in defense isn't bad, but on the offense, even with good AI scripting from the designer, it tends to do stupid things, especially the longer a game goes.
Back in the day I was told that the % of people who play the game against the AI versus PBEM is very heavily skewed towards the AI side.
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