Civilization 5 lead designer Jon Shafer joins Paradox...and gets fired half a year later

[MadMaxHellfire]

there's no civ past 4. what are you talking about?

 

[Delterius]

Between this guy and Ubik, Paradox is turning into a connoisseur.

 

[Norfleet]

I hope you are talking about older civ ai and not 5-6.
The ai in 5-6 can't pose a threat even if it outnumbers you 10 to 1.Not to mention it never build the op units(ranged) and always build the useless units first.(pikeman,lancer)

There's a Civ 5 and 6? I don't know what you're talking about.

It should also be noted that a Civ AI still requires someone to ATTACK it in order to lose. A Paradox AI can kill itself without ever coming into contact with an enemy!

 

[Nutria]

It's much easier for Paradox's AI because each country can be scripted act a certain way. They're programmed to be more interested in certain provinces and have certain attitudes toward each other. Civ AI has to evaluate its own situation on a procedurally generated map without any help from humans.

 

[Galdred]

Paradox games have always been way too complex for their AI to handle, and a bit too long for multiplayer (let alone the fact that a fixed speed does not really works best with them). But they also are pretty good at generating nice stories regardless of the AI shortcomings.

 

[Nirvash]

Paradox can't ai for shit, look at stellaris or HOI.

They can only do heavy script ai for enclosed grand strategy.

 

[passerby]

Paradox games [...] are pretty good at generating nice stories regardless of the AI shortcomings.

They are mostly just larping platforms, rather than games.

 

[Space Satan]

This retard placed a foundation to CivVI downfall by introducing all the base crap like 1UPT, dumbed down mechanics, unspeakably cumbersome and disgusting UI. At least for that I am thankful to him because he is making this nuCiv shit's debacle ovbious.

 

[Blaine]

Just the existence of Civilization games past the fourth installment makes me slightly angry when I think of it, and I still look upon IV with eyes slightly narrowed in suspicion.