I'm starting to get really frustrated with one aspect of Battlefield 2.

Whenever there is a vehicle there is almost invariably a clump of people waiting for said vehicle.

I'm of the personal opinion that if someone is already there, then it's THEIR TURN to use the vehicle when it spawns, thus I go elsewhere.

Sadly I'm appearantly the only person on the game who even thinks remotely like this, as people love to come over and grab the darn vehicle right out from under others(Including me). Because god forbid they share.

I'm playing Civilization 4, and I was in a game where I had all this crazy stuff... I had Marines and Battleships and Jet Power and everything, and everyone else was still doing the longbow thing. I had all my cities connected... except one. It (the prosperous coastal city of Canada) was separated by a single square of Chinese territory from my capital city of SPARTAAAAA!!!!!!, and no matter how much culture I amassed, I could not get it back. So I got every other civilization to declare war on China (through technology bribing), and then put my troops into strategic positions and declared war myself.

OH HOW THE COMPUTER CHEATS.

First off, his longbow squads - IN THE OPEN AND PARTLY DAMAGED - could somehow kill whole squads of infantry/marines. His war elephants took out panzers with little to no trouble.

More importantly, though, he could get units from absolutely nowhere. I surrounded one of their cities, attacked it until there were only 2 catapult units left, and ended my turn. When I looked again, there were 3 catapults and a longbow squad. I say again, there was NO WAY to get units to that city. They had no airports, and all the exits were closed off. They just out-and-out cheated.

I hear that the cheating is fixed in a patch, but I'm worried that a patch would erase my game saves.

Patches don't normally erase game saves..

Well that's what you get for playing a game of civ past civ 2, otherwise named civs 3-4: the crap year.

Speaking of cheating, the computer in Advance Wars 1 would cheat in fog of war.

You can't attack something you can't see. This doesn't hold true for the computer, who will use ranged vehicles to pound your troops who are IN FORESTS. Which means they can't be seen unless they have a unit right next to you.

And they move strategically against your hidden units too, putting their valuable units out of range of your rockets that they can't see.

AI should not get bonuses over players, especially in strategy games where they have an edge.

The AI cheated in AW2, too - it knew when you had units in the forest, but at least then it went through the appearances of having to stick a guy next to your cover.

But it was much worse in 1 since practically half the levels of campaign had Fog of War.

Giving the AI special bonuses is a long standing tradition to help inferior AI.

Blizzard is notorious for this, they often give their AI double or even triple resource gathering.

The computer needed any cheats it got in AW1 as its AI was horrible and very very predictable.
But I don't remember any of my troops getting shot while hiding. In fact there was one level where you had to protect your landers and I just parked them on a reef and the computer never found them for 10 days.
And I've had the computer walk into basically all my fog of war ambushes....
Maybe I'm crazy... I don't know.

That's what I didn't like about Command and Conquer however. Stupid computer could build buildings anywhere it wanted. You'd go and destroy all his sam sites, positioned nicely away from his base so they should be impossible to rebuild but oh no, they come back up again

Bah, AI has been getting stuff for years..

what used to irritate me was the secret numbers...


FF Tactics did that alot..

like, their mages did 2.5 times your damage, and hit on a 20% EVERY FRICKIN TIME and my mage bombed on 95%'s 10/10 times...

now, either the universe aligned in a certain way JUST TO THWART ME or thats a secret number somewhere...


oh yea, and those 100% death ninjas? i would like to kick the crap out of whoever came up with them. half the time you played that mission you lost before you got to take a turn.

the other half you got pwned by turn 3...


/me cries in the corner