Empire Earth - How to Stop the AI from Cheating in Random Maps

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  • čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
  • Here's a quick guide on how to disable AI cheating in Empire Earth in Random Map games, hope you find it useful!
    Thanks to the following forum posts that helped me figure this out:
    How to disable AI cheating in a random map game - ee.heavengames....
    Ai fix? - / ai_fix
    #empireearth
    #rtsgames
    #rts

Komentáře • 88

  • @tonienguix4834
    @tonienguix4834 Před rokem +42

    OMG THANK YOU i was freaking out like there's just no way they were going so fast

    • @mcmerry2846
      @mcmerry2846 Před rokem +1

      I discovered that once I created a match with 0 resources, gave the ai 1 citizen and the mf started building barracks out of nothing...

  • @IcaroFarias
    @IcaroFarias Před rokem +80

    I can’t believe i was made a fool all these years

    • @SolidNate99
      @SolidNate99 Před rokem +5

      I saw it after I think my 2nd game? Possibly my first. I saw the computer had collected so much more resources than me, even though I crushed him almost completely halfway through the game where he had nothing left. I knew there was funny business. Then I gave him just one citizen and he had a huge military by time i checked on him a couple minutes into the game and spent way more wood than would be possible!

    • @rygar8bit2
      @rygar8bit2 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@SolidNate99All RTS games AI enemy cheat, they always have infinite resources and their build times are upped like crazy.

    • @SolidNate99
      @SolidNate99 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@rygar8bit2 aoe2 definitive edition fixed it

    • @rygar8bit2
      @rygar8bit2 Před 5 měsíci

      @@SolidNate99 AoE 4 ai still cheats like crazy though in coop games.

    • @SolidNate99
      @SolidNate99 Před 5 měsíci

      @@rygar8bit2 no way... Really? That sucks

  • @LototheLegend
    @LototheLegend Před 2 lety +72

    Yeah I'm kind of the same way, and value having the same set of rules. It's all sorts of frustrating for me when the developers just have an AI outright cheat to make it challenging rather than actually improve the programming.

    • @pxlpedia
      @pxlpedia  Před 2 lety +17

      If I recall the justification for the AI being developed this way was to ensure it was a challenge no matter the player's skill level, but yeah that seems lazy to me since that's the whole point of having difficulty levels

    • @Jossos
      @Jossos Před 2 lety +17

      @@pxlpedia a lot of the shortcomings of this game screams time/money restraints. I think their justification for the AI was an afterthought, and really they just didn't have the resources to implement something good. Non-cheating AI is awful because it's not intelligent enough to use its resources wisely

    • @pxlpedia
      @pxlpedia  Před 2 lety +5

      @@Jossos Yeah agreed, if there were to be a remaster/reboot I hope this is improved 🙏

    • @ever-modern
      @ever-modern Před 2 lety +1

      @@pxlpedia trying my luck: maybe, you know the bug, when after having played an hour or two, AI's peasants just start moving off towards enemy's settlement and eventually all get shot dead? I always play created scenario in test mode - is this the reason? Or what should I do?

    • @devilravenninja9597
      @devilravenninja9597 Před rokem +1

      @@ever-modern nope it is an actual bug where they go off to the other side of the map and just run out of resources. They also have trouble aging up and can't upgrade settlements in the absence of an existing Town or City Center. Honestly I can see having the AI cheat as being a way to prevent these bugs

  • @lebenunterwegs1038
    @lebenunterwegs1038 Před rokem +27

    I tried that and my AI oponent had no citizens any more after a few hours in a gigantic world. I did only some defence against a few of his attaks, no realy big attak at that time. So it seeems to me, that cheating for the AI is essential to survive.
    I use the scenario editor the same way, as it was presentes here to change the oponent and to change the limit of units. This works quite well for me.

    • @jamesclouse9947
      @jamesclouse9947 Před rokem +6

      The ai always has tons of guys wondering around dying and they will spend every penny they have to have tons of guys wondering the map. Because of this they have to cheat or they will go broke from wondering

    • @thedon1262
      @thedon1262 Před rokem

      yea i thought it would be fun to put some wolves in there, they didnt last long. i restarted becouse i got actually scared of the wolves. they are no joke. @@jamesclouse9947

  • @devilravenninja9597
    @devilravenninja9597 Před rokem +12

    this can actually cause a bug where the AI opponents can't age up or progress in any way or where they can't create nor upgrade to Town/City Centers in the absence of one. They stop gathering resources after a while and kill their own remaining citizens. That's not even touching on their suicidal "mass exodus" problems in large maps where they send all their citizens over to the other side of the map at the beginning of a game to gather over there without even building a settlement. And you don't need to exit the game to do this. just load a random, multiplayer or campain map and save it. Go back to menu. Immediately test run a basic scen edit. Load the saved game and save it again through test run. close the test run and load the new save in editor and edit as you like

  • @tysej4
    @tysej4 Před 10 měsíci +10

    The problem is I don't mind the AI cheating to not break.
    But the idea that they always have the resources to follow up on age progression is a bit much.
    In one skirmish I did, I managed to capture the middle quite quickly and hold it, meaning that the AI was on limited resources, rather than risk losing everything by attacking, I decided to boom from there but the AI just kept up, produced 3 times the unit count of my advanced units whilst barely having any resource fields.

  • @VFRontop89
    @VFRontop89 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Still play this game, never realized how many hours went into just 1 match.

    • @1marcelfilms
      @1marcelfilms Před měsícem

      Hours? Why not days. Weeks even. Just builging

  • @xb1uee882
    @xb1uee882 Před rokem +8

    If I remember correctly you don't need to close the game after you saved the random map, you can just go in scenario, and load it there, and then save it as a scenario. I don't remember if it shows all the stats at the end using this way tho.
    But, i remember, you can even cheat on campaigns using this method

    • @devilravenninja9597
      @devilravenninja9597 Před rokem

      that's how I do it and I always do as I like to adjust the map to be more realistic and better for multiple team setups using the full 16 player format that you can only get in scen edit but in hard difficulty and slow settings

    • @sascher7461
      @sascher7461 Před rokem

      Oh yes I remember putting some Nano Age facions into the medieval campains!

  • @eragonrank5303
    @eragonrank5303 Před rokem +3

    Iirc you can do the same method to ‘spice up’ campaigns in the same way. But sometimes moving a saved campaign game to the Editor and back might cause issues.

  • @anataskova987
    @anataskova987 Před 2 měsíci +3

    The problem is that when the AI doesn't cheat, the game is too easy. The AI doesn't know how to play without cheats.

  • @franci0188
    @franci0188 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I don't understand if this makes the ai fair only related to the map created or for every map

  • @rodrigocofre693
    @rodrigocofre693 Před 6 měsíci +1

    There is a video for stop the ai cheating in the campaing's? Because the cheater ai i cant pass away from mission 4 of germany campaing

  • @AlejandroMiguelCancio
    @AlejandroMiguelCancio Před 8 měsíci +1

    Hace unos años sospechaba que la IA hacia trampa pero no sabía como arreglarlo. Me frustro tanto que lo deje de jugar por eso mismo. Podría darle una oportunidad ahora mismo

  • @kblskables2877
    @kblskables2877 Před 2 měsíci +1

    in EE2 the ai cheating taught me to balls out always attack and take territories in the first 1 min of the game.

  • @forgottenmatter4543
    @forgottenmatter4543 Před rokem +3

    I never knew the AI cheated. I normally play on normal and end up doing pretty well. Or I turn the difficulty to hard, add the max ai’s and watch them all attack each other while I use cheats to defend against all of them.

    • @Solontire
      @Solontire Před rokem +2

      My name is methos

    • @tasse0599
      @tasse0599 Před rokem

      @@Solontire lol I know someone with the same name

  • @LuizFernandoSC
    @LuizFernandoSC Před rokem +4

    I only play on the easy difficulty, the AI still cheats, but they are kind of less agressive.

    • @icet111
      @icet111 Před rokem +1

      Easy is ok even with cheating computer because like you say they are not agressive they don't attack so fast like in hard. But Medium is even very hard with cheating computers but i have beaten the Computers in Medium but I can't beat the Computer in hard (Standard with Cheating). They are so fast they are attacking in 5 minutes and in 10Minutes with a ARmy and in 15-20 min with massive amounts of units that is impossible to produce as human player

    • @antiamenaza7372
      @antiamenaza7372 Před 10 měsíci

      yes!, It is as you say, even in medium I struggle a lot, all the games are just a half a day trench warfare game@@icet111

  • @avleenbansal
    @avleenbansal Před rokem +1

    Sir after doing this, the map gets hidden..but i would still like the map to be revealed..what do i do?

  • @MickDelgado
    @MickDelgado Před 2 lety +2

    Does that also work in Multiplayer? Cause my friend and I love to play Skirmishes together against the AI.

    • @pxlpedia
      @pxlpedia  Před 2 lety +1

      Good question, I hadn’t initially considered this so I tried it out and yes it does! Happy to hear you’re enjoying MP with friends :)

    • @wilhelmschottehultkrantz
      @wilhelmschottehultkrantz Před 2 lety

      Is multiplayer still up?

    • @MickDelgado
      @MickDelgado Před 2 lety +2

      @@wilhelmschottehultkrantz Offical servers? No. If you use a direct connection or NeoEE, yeah you can still play MP

    • @wilhelmschottehultkrantz
      @wilhelmschottehultkrantz Před 2 lety

      @@MickDelgado oh alright

    • @devilravenninja9597
      @devilravenninja9597 Před rokem

      yup, you can use a similar method for multiplayer matches but your friends have to be in the initial save

  • @eddypatello952
    @eddypatello952 Před 9 měsíci +3

    my name is methos....

  • @Snakefix18
    @Snakefix18 Před rokem +2

    Does the AI even have a chance defeating the player without cheating?

    • @devilravenninja9597
      @devilravenninja9597 Před rokem +1

      in short... no lol. the long explanation tho, has to do with a bug in the ai

    • @jamesclouse9947
      @jamesclouse9947 Před rokem

      Not at all they don't micro their economy and they send mass villagers to die without cheats they bankrupt their economy

  • @augustuswade9781
    @augustuswade9781 Před 9 měsíci

    2:39 Is it that AIs will get resource bumps of 100 when they are low on resources?

  • @Skulard
    @Skulard Před 3 měsíci +1

    i knew ai had some unfair advantage, but unlimited resources?

  • @Rollo37
    @Rollo37 Před 2 lety

    Is it just not possible to turn on a "reveal map" setting? So the map just isnt black form start.
    The game is also at normal pace, cant i make it faster?

    • @veiledhunter3088
      @veiledhunter3088 Před rokem

      Well you can use cheat codes to reveal the map, but I don't think that feature is automatically available. I might be wrong though not sure

    • @6StimuL84
      @6StimuL84 Před 8 měsíci

      ASUS DRIVERS is the code to reveal the map and yes in settings you can put it up to fast.

  • @ME262MKI
    @ME262MKI Před rokem +1

    Why would you want to do that?

  • @42ccb
    @42ccb Před rokem

    I'm think that will break the AI. Also, they are not so difficult and pretty stupid. They are just spamming their hundreds of units to your towers and loosing them.
    Also sometimes they are just not even building the airplanes and anything, even on medium difficulty.

  • @user-gv3ft6hb6z
    @user-gv3ft6hb6z Před 2 lety

    excuse me do you know how to set a multiplayer room in empire earth gold?? i have struggling in this :( ,how to let my friend know my ip position and connect to play the game with him ?

  • @xCARPx2014
    @xCARPx2014 Před 2 lety +1

    Is there a way to know if it actually worked?

    • @pxlpedia
      @pxlpedia  Před 2 lety

      In a custom game the checkbox will be unticked, and in a random map the AI's behavior will change pretty drastically so it should be noticeable

  • @aBadHippy
    @aBadHippy Před 11 měsíci

    but whats the difficulty for the ai then ? you cant change it

    • @cory8606
      @cory8606 Před 10 měsíci +1

      U can change the difficulty in scenario editor

    • @aBadHippy
      @aBadHippy Před 10 měsíci

      i didnt find it ._.@@cory8606

  • @hodenbacke55555
    @hodenbacke55555 Před rokem

    its not possible to reveal map with the fog like this. or am i stupid?

    • @xb1uee882
      @xb1uee882 Před rokem

      No, when you play scenario, the map will be black, you can use a cheat code to reveal it

  • @icet111
    @icet111 Před rokem

    it works now its definetely Fairplay without cheating Computer:)

  • @AndresTorres-yo4xj
    @AndresTorres-yo4xj Před rokem

    this can work for mp battles?

  • @georgipopov3504
    @georgipopov3504 Před rokem

    Great! Thank you.

  • @jankutac9753
    @jankutac9753 Před 2 lety +2

    How does the AI even cheat?

    • @pxlpedia
      @pxlpedia  Před 2 lety +11

      Unlimited resources, constructs buildings much faster and knows where all your units and buildings are 😭

    • @jankutac9753
      @jankutac9753 Před 2 lety

      @@pxlpedia hmm. And how do the AI players change on easy an hard difficulties? Any idea?

    • @pxlpedia
      @pxlpedia  Před 2 lety +6

      As far as I know AI difficulty only affects how aggressively/fast the AI plays (so on Easy will tech up and generally play slower, and increases with the difficulty setting)

    • @jankutac9753
      @jankutac9753 Před 2 lety +1

      @@pxlpedia ok thanks. I'd find it really helpful if games actually described what difficulty levels do :-D

    • @mannekepis11
      @mannekepis11 Před rokem

      @@pxlpedia also 'coincidentally' creates the perfect units that counter yours

  • @xcort8839
    @xcort8839 Před 11 měsíci

    I love you man. Awsome, I really hate this game bescause of AI, but now i can kick they asses😂

  • @MajFAIP
    @MajFAIP Před rokem

    How does the AI cheat in this game

    • @raycaves2468
      @raycaves2468 Před rokem +1

      Just have unlimited resources "all your base are belong to us"

  • @lonely_signal
    @lonely_signal Před 2 lety +3

    Я русский, прошу вас, не нужно стериотипов и агрессии, я сам не в восторге от того, что делает моя страна с Украиной! На всём просторе русскоязычного ютуба искал подобное, в итоге нашёл только у тебя! СПАСИБО, ОГРОМНОЕ! Слава Украине!

  • @mrshinybald2739
    @mrshinybald2739 Před rokem +2

    I have never won a fuxken game against AI

    • @holidayinn4293
      @holidayinn4293 Před rokem

      It's because they don't actually need resources when cheating is on. That compounded by the fact that they can micromanage every unit they control. If you upgrade an epoch they'll always upgrade their epoch to match it 1-5 minutes later so you can never even get a tech advantage over them when cheating is enabled.

    • @SolidNate99
      @SolidNate99 Před rokem +1

      Here's the easy way to win. Build like 20 barracks and just spawn the hell out of long swords. Once you get like 100 long swords, just crush. He can't handle massive amounts of infantry. I've only lost 1 game of the 8 I have played since I bought the game this week.

  • @mcmerry2846
    @mcmerry2846 Před rokem +1

    Yeah, i had to play from the scenario editor always 😂 mf AI always infinite resources.

  • @ileaswon6520
    @ileaswon6520 Před 2 měsíci

    Безконечный лайк

  • @josho217
    @josho217 Před 2 lety +1

    It crashes. Lol

    • @muhammadreza2601
      @muhammadreza2601 Před 2 lety +2

      You need to change the file extension again into .ees