For the love of God, do something about the AI

Dream on. Wait for 1.2 come out with full mod support. Then hopefully someone very very nice will make a better AI.

I don't understand why isn't the AI's difficulty set to Hard or Insane when a player leaves. Isn't it obvious to everyone including GPG and SD that AI just CAN'T fight on par with humans (even noob ones)?

1.2 isn't coming until something like Septemberish, so it will be a bit of a wait.

I don't know, sometimes the AI seems to be pretty good since the 1.1 patch, regulus AI seems to do pretty good, while rook AI is still stupid when it comes to running away.

100% agree with the OP. Had an awsome game last night where someone had a 0 sim speed. Someone said fix your sim speed and they did, by leaving. I went through the rest of the game 0-0 and my partner had a respectable 4-4. We lost in 20 minutes though as the AI was farmed into oblivion.

Add an option to remove the AI in custom games or put them on insane difficulty. Common sense should prevail here.

If mod support comes in I will sort the AI out myself, in fact I would do it for free for GPG if given the opportunity but unfortunately it seems to be given 0 priority in terms of development time.

I refuse to believe that given a decent amount of time this AI is all they could come up with.

GPG, a challenge to any one of you.

Create a custom game, put yourself and a Rook AI on one team (any difficulty), on the other side do 1 AI like Regulus or UB, doesn't really matter.  Do this on a simple map like Cataract.

Now start the game, park your character at the crystal and now just watch the AI.  My challenge to you is to not be embarassed by what you see.

GPG's answer after they read what you wrote above:

OMG GUYS! Our AI is actually bad! We must fix it till tommorow! Our customers believe in us! We MUST pull this off! Let's work for 10 hours straight EVERYONE!

*Working for 10 hours straigth in incredible teamwork and testing the AI a lot, fixed all the bugs in the game*

Well guys, FASTER! FASTER! Let's release the damn patch! People are waiting for us! We can't let them down!

*Patch released and Easy AI with reduced XP and gold pwns pro players*

Players: Thank you GPG! We love you! You are the best guys in the world! Who needs online now that we have an awesome AI! And thanks for fixing all the bugs!

GPG: No problem, man! It's what we do. Be sure to check in tommorow! We are releasing the Demo early in the morning!

Yeah... Right... Like something like that will EVER happen !

I don't think it can even happen in my dreams

Well if it is so easy then maybe you could write it for them?

Hmmm, guess it is pretty hard to write AI.

Writing a good AI is very difficult, though I think there are some obvious improvements that could be made to the current one, like someone suggested above, run when you see 2 AI's (and you dont have a friend nearby).

In general the AI needs to be a little more stand-offish. It overetends itself, especially if you start running (or fake running).

This. Please, please, please don't oversimplify how difficult it is to make a good AI. Sure, improvements would be great, but this is a complex game with a lot of stuff to weight, and AI's have trouble doing that.