AI Signs you off the roster DURING the fight

[Rogue]

The AI fief unsigned me again at the last full hour. How are you supposed to plan ahead for these battles if they AI just unsigns you 5 minutes before the battle starts, although I was on the roster for more than 20 hours.

[Mike_of_Kingswell]

How are you supposed to plan ahead for these battles

With this system you are not supposed to be able to plan ahead...!

[Lactose_the_intolerant]

and what was kind of great was to see a guy called fatty man or something alike get 30 kills for 109 deaths!( the max was 30 for other players...)

and guess what? he got hired for the next siege 

[RandomDude]

It is a bit silly to be hired 20 hrs in advance and then be removed (although if you think about it, human commanders would do the same thing, hiring a lvl 26/27 and replacing them for lvl 30/31+ sometimes.)

Maybe some notification of how likely you are to stay in roster could help?

and what was kind of great was to see a guy called fatty man or something alike get 30 kills for 109 deaths!( the max was 30 for other players...)

and guess what? he got hired for the next siege 

Yeah there's always some guy(s) with 0 kills and xxx deaths in AI defences. Its not a crime to be bad and I guess this is the best hope they have for participating in strat battles. I just hope its not a case of people purposefully dying and doing bad though.

Everyone has a right to be involved and some of these guys probably dont care about how it affects strategus, but just want to have fun (must be from a planet other than Earth tho!).

[Lactose_the_intolerant]

I'm not talking about noobs, I'm talking about morons.

The biggest noob died 30 times, this guy died 110 times in an hour siege....if my maths are correct thats nearly two death a minit. Basically jumping off the walls and repeat...

[Leesin]

Yes, every AI defense I see you get a few of those idiots, last time I played a castle defense there were even players from well known clans doing the same, racking up huge amounts of deaths with little kills, when some of the players on my team purposely blocked the routes they could jump from, they begun attacking our team mates.

Should be stricter rulings on Strategus, it shouldn't be for idiots just to sign up to battles just so they can jump off the wall, fail and die with little or no kills, rinse and repeat for an hour, they can go play Siege and do that.

Anyway, back on topic, the Roster should just have substitutes rather than accepting people after the battle begins and also it shouldn't remove anyone it has already accepted, if people don't show up then it can start accepting people from the substitutes. I know I'd be pissed if I got taken off the Roster after making the time to come on and play the battle.

[Mike_of_Kingswell]

ARE YOU FU**ING KIDDING ME?!

i applied for Dhirim like 24h before the battle and got accepted
Battle of Dihrim started ~18:45   I am accepted
19:00 I AM NOT ACCPEDTED AFTER 15 minutes of fighting?!?


WHAT THE ....?!

HOW IS ANYONE TO PLAN IF AI FUCK THIS SHIT UP YET AGAIN!?


€ yes i am lvl 30 and i didnt change anything about that ;)
€2: wont bother fighting for stupid ai anymore...

[witchhunter]

i just got signed off the roster of Druzhina vs Dhirim. what exactly is the point of taking people off the roster in the middle of a battle and not to reward them with xp anymore? i also checked the roster: i have a higher reliability and performance rating than quite a few people who are still on the roster and with level 29 i shouldnt really be considered low level.

[RibaldRon]

I was unhired as well, if you're hired you should be given a lot of preference over new people signing up, ESPECIALLY an hour prior to the battle.  People who were hired and (surprise surprise!) didn't show had much worse reliability, and in some cases, even lower performance than I did...

NOW, if the player is in the strat duel server, preference should be given to them if that's even possible.


When there's a full roster,  players do it the smart way, so why not AI?


Another solution: Add backup players to the roster.  They won't be main players but if somebody doesn't  show, D/Cs, gets banned, etc. they can be there to fill in the spots.  This will probably drive up more interest in strat as currently a lot of people are left in the cold due to full rosters/glitches/errors and get frustrated quickly.