The AI wasn't built with a very strong Strategic Core. I've heard talk of opening up the AI so that it can be modded by a true strategist familiar with LUA scripting and RTS games.

Having your disconnected teammate turn into AI is the worst thing that could happen to you.  I'd rather that he joined the other team as an AI so I could farm him indefinitely.

According to the developers journal:

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/337968

The AI is suppose to be smart.

I'd say it's supposed to execute plans aimed at fulfilling goals and they TRIED to make it smart... but it's a multi player game, so AI probably didn't get anywhere near enough loving to be competitive against the online community

The AI, oh the AI. I know LUA well enough and I've done AI tweaks before but I lack the time to do it all by myself.

What it needs to do is assess risk better. Humans are doing it, but it seems that it is only working off of what is happening in the very moment, which causes it to get easily confused. Why teleport when you can run? Why wait until you are killable in 3 hits to retreat? Why ignore enemy towers? I could go on.

But overall, the AI is not horrible. It tends to handle itself very well in terms of taking on a human. Its when certain situations arise that it seems to lacks the programming to preform properly. The biggest problem is the fact that  you know an AI will be a feeder, regardless of the skill level of the humans, simply because the amount of HP to trigger a retreat is entirely too low. The retreat method is also improper for playing against humans. Instead of running away, which in a lot of cases can take you out of immediate danger, they will teleport to the health crystal. While this is a viable and pretty intelligent move, you can't do it in melee combat with less than 1000 hp at anything but very low levels.

The AI needs to pay attention to a few things, and I believe its survival rate will be improved quite a bit:

• Where am I in relation to enemy towers.
• Can I survive this current DPS? (Enemy HP is visible. Will the AI be able to out DPS his attacker? Simple math really. I do it, so an AI can for sure.)
• Keeping with the DPS: Can I survive for the 2 seconds teleport will take?
• Keeping with teleports: Have they used an interrupt ability before? The AI needs to keep track of this on a DG by DG basis. If they haven't used an interrupt on it as of the moment of the teleport, they should assume its safe. Otherwise they need to run.
• How many DGs are near my target? (as in not running into a 2v1 situation....)

Im sure there is more but I don't feel like making a comprehensive list at the moment.

Proximity:  I don't know LUA at all, and it's finals week, so I don't have the time to look atm, but do the computer agents have local state?  I know a lot of the time, AI doesn't need to remember things, especially if it only needs to analyze what's currently happening.  If there's no local state, it would be extra hard to track enemy DPS, whether they've used interrupts, and even the location of the towers, depending on what sensors have been built in (if it can only see what isn't in the fog, and has no memory, it wouldn't know if towers had already been destroyed.

dont worry man , rook is the worst ai , noone thinks your bad losing that game , its an uphill battle which is very hard to win , just feel proud the times you do

I've yet to see the AI of any game be anything above crap. It's completely incapable of thinking on anywhere NEAR the level a person is. It doesn't evolve, it doesn't gain experience from past games. Once a player plays the AI a few times they know exactly how it'll react and then they use that knowledge to beat the piss out of it. The AI can never do that, in any game.

Have you ever noticed in 90% of games the AI is a joke, and in the other 10% the only way to get it even remotely competitive they add levels above "hard" where the AI uses cheats to gain an advantage. The AI isn't actually any better, they just get to play outside the box you get to play in to give it hope of winning.

I don't think it's really a problem of the devs. The AI is limited by the fact that it is AI. That's the ultimate limitation. I wouldn't say the DG AI is any worse than any other AI, they're all worthless. I think it's a god damn joke the AI is part of multiplayer in any way though.

Ya, I've seen the AI chase my guy through and into all my towers many times.  It just does not seem to take towers into account when in battle.