Please note that the AI in the finished game cheats excessively, even on normal difficulty levels. As a point of context, in the few months in the game, the AI’s treasuries will be in the thousands of gold, and the players, no matter the nation, will be in the low hundreds.

Furthermore, the AI on “normal” will receive combat bonuses and economic bonuses to all resources if playing the advanced economy.

This is a PBEM game! Do not purchase it if you wish to play singleplayer. These is essentially no AI.

By Jeremy S. on May 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Can you create a game on Europe leading up to the 1st world war? The secret treaties and the problems they can cause should be very interesting – also, imperialism and nationalism are part of the equation.

By Peter Murphy on May 28, 2009 at 11:56 am

I’m one of the developers of COG:EE. Jeremy S.’s complaint has been discussed exhaustively in the Matrix forum, so I won’t go into detail here. Suffice it to say that this post is largely misleading, but that even so there was indeed a problem that he drew to our attention. The good news is that this issue has already been fully addressed in the patch that is due to be released any day now, so it’s a non-issue. (Jeremy S. himself has said he is satisfied with the change we said we are making, which will both get our manual in line with the code AND add a new difficulty level.)

By Gil R. on May 31, 2009 at 12:35 am