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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clark411" data-source="post: 614088" data-attributes="member: 4768">From what I've read, the Empire Earth AI is so blindingly dull that it is set up to cheat like crazy.  To see how this happens simply make one computer AI your teammate and watch what they do.Even in a low resource game where you can afford at maximum, 1 tower (with 175 Stone or what have you), the computer will begin to encircle it's island/surroundings with no less than 10-15 towers.  It will assign people to make multiple buildings with resources it simply does not have.  It never devotes a significant % of its population to gathering resources, it just churns out armies for free, and upgrades them for free.  When you advance as a civilization, it waits about 5-8 minutes and then also advances as a civilization.  Pretty much all the numbers you read at the end of the game are fiction designed to cover up the fact that it does not need to do anything you do to win, and it cannot lose a game of attrition with you.  It also cannot lose a game of tech/age superiority to you unless you mass your forces and dominate it in the 5-8 minute window you have.Also, it definitely is a combat game, so yea there is a lot of combat- same can be said for most strategy civilization games.  I'd love nothing more than to need a true reason for war, or some kind of plot going on to make the games more than they are, but ultimately this genre falls into the simple equation "Live in peace until you can win in war."Your best bet for a fair fight is multiplayer, although you'll find the equation above to be even more true there.</blockquote>

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