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Join Date 01/2009

Pantheon Bots

OK,

Correct me if I have missed any previous posts, but I couldn't find any definitive answers on this subject.

So far Demigod has been awesome (I only expected this since the Beta was just as fun), but I was really hoping that bots would not be a part of Pantheon games in the full release. I understand why Stardock chose to put bots in the Pantheon games for the Beta, but it is really dissapointing waiting for a Pantheon game for a while and then finally joining one only to find that you are playing against and with bots only.

So my question is: Is there a way to only join Pantheon games with real players?

Thanks in advance

demigod

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yes, that's sure!! I played a 1v3 match and i was with two bots!

that's clearely sucks! Bots have no place on an online party game, especialy in pantheon's wars!!

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i dont think there is one but it would be nice to be able to decline a match against ai without any penality.

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That really sucks, all the day i played

always while loading i hear "Player Left the Game", and the fact is that we dont even know who is bot?

When u press TAB its not written who is bot, who is player, also latency shown could be very useful.

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EvilsToy:
Press TAB - check their ping. If its zero, then they are bots

And yea im sticking with Custom Game. A.i sucks

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if ping=0 its a bot guys.

Every player has a Ping.

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yes! 0 ping should be realy fine for a player

However i think like Fred_bonaparte that it should be fine to let the possibility to the player to quit the game with no penality if there's only IA!

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AI enemies / allies have no place in ranked / recorded multiplayer matches. It's absurd that they are included in release.

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Quoting Fred_Bonaparte,

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i dont think there is one but it would be nice to be able to decline a match against ai without any penality.

Yep, very good point. I didn't even think of the penalizations that result from just quitting a bot Pantheon game. I'm glad that people are in agreement with me in that this seems inappropriate to have bot games in the Pantheon for release.

What bothers me the most about the Pantheon being mostly bot games is this: Bot games are easy. Really easy. So all a side has to do to win the current Pantheon is play a lot of games (since it is almost guaranteed that you will win everytime against the AI).

I realize that Stardock has more pressing issues at the moment (network code), but the sooner we bring this up, the sooner a patch will be releases that includes a solution to Pantheon AI.

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