Stardock Listens, no more AI in Pantheon Tournaments

By T-Man on November 13, 2009 10:52:58 AM from

The community has spoken and once again Stardock has listened and taken action. As of today we have removed the adding of AI Players to a Pantheon tournament when there are not enough players to create a match.

We have had much internal debate on this topic over the last few months and a decision has finally been made to remove AI Players from Pantheon tournament matches. This was largely due to the Demigod community's repeated requests for us to make this change happen.

Now with this change, let it be noted that if there are not enough players in the queue then a match will not be created. So your wait times for a match may increase depending on how many people are (or are not) in the queue.

We hope you enjoy the change..

+50 Karma | 52 Replies

(btw. I hope the System won't still do 3v1 match ups, this time without AI?)

It's a small step for a design change but a big step for the community!

Thank you!

Just add Crucible back in and allow 1 v 1 again

Quoting HorseRadish,

reply 3

Just add Crucible back in and allow 1 v 1 again

oh god, i hope not so!

Much internal debate? This really is such a no-brainer I can't understand why it took so long.

Then can you please listen some more and not implement the new favor items which basically buff the most used favor items in the game and make others even harder to compete with.

Quoting GnomeChomp,

reply 5

Much internal debate? This really is such a no-brainer I can't understand why it took so long.

People dont want to wait a long time for Pantheon games, and they also don't want to play with AI. It's a catch 22 because with our small community you're either going to have to wait a bit or play with AI.

no it is no catch because people are waiting because of to few palyers, and one of many reasons there are so few palyers is that they don't join because of the risk getting ai

Uhm, I was just matched up against an AI

Part of the reason no one wanted to play Pantheon was BECAUSE of the AI - it wasn't a catch 22, it shot itself in the foot right at the start. Its like the devs banked on not many people playing Pantheon - way to have confidence in your own game.

Quoting Spooky__,

reply 9

Uhm, I was just matched up against an AI

Reduced 35%Original 1680 x 1020

ROFL

And again

Quoting CelMare,

reply 4

Quoting HorseRadish,
reply 3
Just add Crucible back in and allow 1 v 1 again

oh god, i hope not so!

Well I do not want to wait 15 minutes if there is 9 light and 1 dark for another dark to show up I would rather have it launch 1 v 1 I want to play the game not sit and wait for a 2 v 2

Can you be sure it's not an AI replacing some asshat who left?

Uhm, I was just matched up against an AI

Hmmm, The match making code is not adding the AI players. What I am guessing is happening is that a player is exiting and being replaced by an AI player.

This can happen between the time that the Match is made (and handed off to the host) and the time the client joins the game. Because the Host (and potentially other clients) are already going into the "Launch Game" mode there is no turning back. And if one of the players drops during this time the player is replaced by an AI player.

With this scenario I am not sure if there is anything we can do at this point.

This is a great move now....could we get an update on when we get those new Gods?

Soon.

T-Man is 1 v 1 now a option what can we expect with this change team wise? Will it launch a 5 v 5 if 5 light and dark are in the cue. What maps are in the rotation Brothers? Mandela?

Quoting T-Man,

reply 15

Uhm, I was just matched up against an AI
Hmmm, The match making code is not adding the AI players. What I am guessing is happening is that a player is exiting and being replaced by an AI player.

This can happen between the time that the Match is made (and handed off to the host) and the time the client joins the game. Because the Host (and potentially other clients) are already going into the "Launch Game" mode there is no turning back. And if one of the players drops during this time the player is replaced by an AI player.

With this scenario I am not sure if there is anything we can do at this point.

Ah ok, I didn't look at the player info screen for those games.

frikin great news

Great change.

Awesome to hear

Quoting HorseRadish,

reply 3

Just add Crucible back in and allow 1 v 1 again

Crucible 1v1s are back, just one won on crucible but it doesn't seem to have counted. *shakes fist at demisword for crashing/disconnecting/quitting*

Looks like 1v1 reporting is still kind of wonky... two 1v1s in a row I've won, but one showed up as "incomplete" (the one where demisword dc'd) and the other showed up as a loss when the other guy quit before the 5 minutes were up (it's N/A so it doesn't really matter, but it's still odd). It's still better than playing AIs though.

Ye will play more panth now! regarding wait time if you consider the games that have been made only for 1 team to have AI on it and concede, and you having to repeat the process.... well it wont be more now;)

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