First of all, thank you very much for keeping one of the best games ever made alive and even further improving it.
I really like your work and also the latest update with the wine economy is just perfect for the late game.
There is just one thing which I really hope can be solved - the AI.
Up until version 0.8.1 the AI seems to behave somewhat like the usual settlers 2 AI. Not perfect, but ok.
Then someone seemingly tried to improve two major weaknesses of the AI, namely that it doesn't build a sufficient wood economy and that it doesn't use gold coins smart by rotating soldiers.
However, apparently the improvement attempts backfired, because the AI builds now a lot of foresters, in fact so much that often there is no space for farms anymore. But what is worse is that the gold coin usage completely breaks down after some time. The AI starts of correctly by building a castle next to the HQ and rotating soldiers, but after some time it stops rotating and it sets the castle to don’t accept coins. The same is also true for all other military buildings (to most of which it cuts the roads anyways). In the end the AI ends up with a lot of recruits despite stocking a lot of gold coins in the warehouses.
Additionally, also something with the mining has gone wrong. After 0.8.1 the AI often doesn’t really exploit the resources available in the mountains and sets up only a very limited number of mines.
So after reading in the forum, I understand that you currently don’t have anyone available who is an AI expert to fix the issues. I myself unfortunately also can’t help with that, otherwise I would do it.
But could it be an option to just take the latest Nightly and compile it with the AI data from 0.8.1?
If there is any chance, I really would appreciate it.
In any case, thank you once more for your great work.
BR