I think you'll find that most players online would even struggle against easy ai.  New game and some people don't pick it up quicker then others. That and trying to be the best may not appeal to everyone.

easy formula for tournament - on all modes but slaughter, don't forget to:

1) buy citadel upgrades

2) destroy towers

3) win

most people seem to not care about cit upgrades but those are what make a win or loss

I have played single player for 20+ hrs and I have played mp games some.

But I dont know anything about this capture lock on flags what is it and where in the UI can you select it? Now I have only played 3 demigods so far, is it a rook only or something feature?

Sorry if its a stupid question, but seriously I consider myself a fast learner and never even heard of this.

I have trouble with Tournament games on Hard difficulty. Mostly seems to be caused by the friendly AIs ignoring the game objectives and doing nothing but feed the other team. I can't imagine what it's going to be like playing the Tournament on Nightmare...

Buy it in the items. It is called the Capture Lock. Very handy, especially against enemy portal flags .

I find single player Tournament to be completely different from multiplayer. On hard, your team sucks completely and the enemy is a lot better. Citadel upgrades are pretty much the game winners. On multiplayer, it is the opposite. You can expect your team to keep up, except for one or two n00bies here or there on a 3v3 to 5v5. Citadel upgrades are pretty useless when you can get better gear, unless it is the gold, experience, cata, or giant upgrades.

why would you need capture lock? I've never used that

Just rewrite the whole AI. Seriously.
In harder modes they shouldn't be cheating, they should be smarter.
"Harder" shouldn't mean that your AI team suddenly becomes dumb and sometimes just stands there doing nothing, it should mean that the opponent becomes better.

Also, the AI should "play the game".
If it's a flag holding game, it should play to hold the flags. If it's a killing game, it should play to kill. Instead the AI ALWAYS tries to go for the citadel. During fortress destroying games, given the choice, the AI chooses to go to the citadel instead of destroying a fortress that's RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF IT.

That is not the way to write an AI.

Yeah, "it's not that easy", some of you will say. They manage to do it in other games, don't they?

its so useful, geez use your imagination..

Sweet I guess i need to go over the items more .

Yes and I agree the AI needs better scripts, they are basically retards with extra resources. Most games with AI, the AI actually does some work toward the greater good of the task. And AI should work together even if they are AI on your team.

<edit> Had to add another AI rant

Single player would be a much more enjoyable if AI actually had some decent scripts. As it is now single player after 1 day or so even thats stretching it is so boring that i feel like beating my head against the kb.

Half-wiki, what is that

Nah, I just prefer killing any1 who dares take my flag

yeah AI is so terrible in this game its unbelievable.  I beat Nightmare with TB tho lol.  Unclean beast is so broken when hes on the other team.  So unfair!  I always get regulus and hes TERRIBLE when hes on my team.  He doesn't even snipe low characters.  And QoT runs into a pack of DG's with mass creeps and dies almost instantly.  But when shes on the other team shes a freakin tank.

thats why we need a tutorial.