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Originally Posted by The Wolf
On Very Hard?
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Here is my thoughts on the matter:
Markus' biggest challenge is to program the AI to make trade decisions that make sense. There are billions of permutations. He cannot account for all of them. No AI is equal to a human. Really, he doesn't work for NASA. But he does make a concerted effort each version to improve the dynamics in play. He focuses on obvious decisions from his perspective and does all that is humanly possible without a team of AI-engineers at his disposal.
My thought is that he knows the difference between a "rebuild" and a "win now" focus. In that vein, he programs the logic based upon these two basic macro-ideas. Once we start manipulating these settings we are getting into areas that he has not fully-accounted for. I'm not saying that he has fully-accounted for any situation but he has, without question, focused on the basics.
OOTP, IMO, is not maximized to understand the difference between "favor prospects" or "favor veterans."
It is my contention that neutral settings are what Markus intends to be the best behavior for the AI. It is my opinion that these settings are designed to be the most-challenging and the most-realistic. I think that that it is folly to play with secondary settings without convincing evidence that the alternative settings compared to the default settings is better as far as "best-behavior" is concerned.
A lot of beer in that sentence so please forgive me if I don't make sense.