Hello to all - just discovered 0AD yesterday. I'm hooked; it's exactly what I was looking for. But there's one caveat: It's hard! I was a big AOE I and II fan back in the day, so I'm very familiar with the game play. But even withtin the first couple of minutes of playing on the "easy" setting, one of my cavlary scouts revealed that the enemy already had stone walls and legions of militants. Anybody else experiencing brutal difficulty?
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if we're talking "minutes", that can be expected...? but yes, the AI for this game is reeeeeally hard in comparison to AOE I and II's original releases. the AI is much more comparable to the beta Forgotten Empires AI, which judges how big its force is to yours and steamrolls you if the difference breaches a threshold. as far as economy goes, even though the AI suffers penalties on 'easy', it has the ability to micromanage every part of its economy as it is not limited by screen size.
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