Should We Move to Eliminate AI Teams?

[Jon Shafer]

Okay, the number of teams has steadily increased over time, up to the point where we will most likely have all spots filled. Should we aim to get rid of AI teams altogether?

[punkbass2000]

No. We voted in favour of AI.

[Spiffor]

Only if there are 6 human controlled teams or more.
If we remain to 5, I say YES to the AI.

[Jon Shafer]

We appear to have 6-7 human teams (5 confirmed, 2-3 in the works). A previous poll quite resoundingly stated that we should allow any team forming to be official with at least 5 members.

[punkbass2000]

True. That doesn't mean we get rid of the AI.

[GodKing]

Keep all 8 teams in the game. If the AI gets totally replaced by people, fine.

If there is only one AI team, fine.

Just keep all 8 civs in the game.

[Ninot]

So this is asking if we should just play without them, or conquer them?

If the former... i think we should use AI untill we can confirm we have 8 human teams.

if the latter... my opinion is worthless

[Donegeal]

More teams = longer game. Smaller map = shorter game.

If we add more human teams I vote to get rid of the AI altogether as I dout there will be any AI in the multi-site game.

I am still for a smaller map for a quicker game. What is the max # of teams on a small map in PTW? Can that # be modded?

[Jon Shafer]

Max number of players for any size map and any MP game is 8.

[Zero]

I'd say keep max amount of human at 7. So we can have one ai if we decide at last min that we wanna include them. If we create 8 teams, we cant go ahead and disband one team....

That and my real intention was to assign each team a unique weekday for their turn.. that would be cool

[FrustratedPoet]

I don't think we need the AI, but then again I never did....

[Harovan]

If there are more than 5 human teams, get rid of the AI. To have an AI as neighbor would be an unfair advantage, because growing at it's expense and extorting it for techs etc. is very easy compared with a human opponent, and would be available only for a small part of the teams.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I fully agree with Sir Ralph.

[ruby_maser]

I think we should move to eliminate any more human teams. I am not against anyone joining or playing, but we need to cap this off and have new members join the teams we already have.

There is a good cross-section of styles and ideologies behind the different teams we currently have. The more we add, the more we cripple the speed at which the game progresses. In the interest of expediting an end to this experiment in the conceivable future, let's be reasonable about new members.

I know some teams have capped off membership; maybe that could stand to be rethought in light of what its gonna take to keep this thing moving.

[Panzer32]

Anything over 5 human teams should have no AI, agree with Sir Ralph and Ghengis Farb.