Do you prefer to play the computer or live human players? Why?

[Ankur]

It still doesn't mean you have an instant strategy for them and a way to win does it? 'Darius of Persia is going to build as many cities as he can' oookaaaay, so whats he going to do then?

Attack you one day day of course, so you just build your empire till then to prepare for war.
But if 'Darius of Persia is an online real player, he will be highly unpredictable, highly competitive, strategic, thats what makes it good.

 

[Turbo10]

Attack you one day day of course, so you just build your empire till then to prepare for war.
But if 'Darius of Persia is an online real player, he will be highly unpredictable, highly competitive, strategic, thats what makes it good.

He might attack you he might not. Who knows where he will settle a new city, make alliances with, or do to you?

I don't care about competition, I don't play to win, I play to have fun, so that's why I play against AI.

 

[Ankur]

He might attack you he might not. Who knows where he will settle a new city, make alliances with, or do to you?

His moves are unpredictable, but after few weeks, you are still able to defeat him even though you don't know his moves because you make yourself a pro.

I don't care about competition, I don't play to win, I play to have fun, so that's why I play against AI.

Same here, that is the exact reason I prefer multiplayer, its more fun playing with real ones as they give us a tough time and doesn't get boring easily.
Planning is another good part of playing with real players, of course you can control your AI team, but if you have a team, you have real time communication and commanding.

 

[Turbo10]

His moves are unpredictable, but after few weeks, you are still able to defeat him even though you don't know his moves because you make yourself a pro..

Go play Civ 5, you'll understand it better You can never learn what they will do. You can know how they might play, but not what they are going to do, its completely random

 

[Ankur]

Go play Civ 5, you'll understand it better You can never learn what they will do. You can know how they might play, but not what they are going to do, its completely random

Been playing it for almost 2 years bro , I can't enjoy much beating CPU every time, same in Fifa 13, pretty hard to lose in it. So real humans all the way.

 

[M1kkelZR]

Go play Civ 5, you'll understand it better You can never learn what they will do. You can know how they might play, but not what they are going to do, its completely random

There are limited strategies a computer has. But a human, has the capability to make up as we go along, we find out if what we did was effective. That is what gives me fun to play against live players. In any game really, except BF3 its terrible

 

[tech explorer]

Would it make a significant difference if a computer employed a random number generator in its strategy making?

For example, in computer chess, the computer may have two or more equally valid responses to a move you make which a RNG would then determine which move the computer should make.

 

[Turbo10]

There are limited strategies a computer has. But a human, has the capability to make up as we go along, we find out if what we did was effective. That is what gives me fun to play against live players. In any game really, except BF3 its terrible

I'm not saying AI is smarter than humans haha, im just saying that depending on the game they arn't always easy as hell and not always predictable. I just don't see the attraction in playing against people competitively.

 

[M1kkelZR]

I'm not saying AI is smarter than humans haha, im just saying that depending on the game they arn't always easy as hell and not always predictable. I just don't see the attraction in playing against people competitively.

I didn't mean that either, but in any game you can understand the AI pattern after a while. There are a limited responses to each action. Thats why the human (should) win 99% of the time. Just because we can react in 10 or more different ways and the AI only in 5. That is not correct of course but just to give a small way of projecting what we can do in comparison to AI.

I don't play competitively, anymore at least. But sure it was fun.