# Yeah.... great start to the week
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)
**Created:** [January 23, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809 "2017-01-23T12:35:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Mgla](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mgla)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/1 "2017-01-23T12:35:03Z")
Pvp 1 - take only move available. AI takes 3 free turns and kills my first troop. Quit battle
Pvp 2 - take two moves. AI gets cascading skulls and kills two troops. Quit.
Pvp 3 - board locked. Can’t do anything befote TDS explodes and kills my whole team.
Pvp 4 - take first move. AI takes four turns and kills first troop. Oh hey. I can’t quit the battle.
Exit game.
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### Author:  [@Jainus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jainus)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/2 "2017-01-23T13:23:37Z")
Your point being?
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### Author:  [@Mgla](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mgla)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/3 "2017-01-23T13:25:41Z")
The AI cheats and it severely detracts from the value of the game.
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### Author:  [@HKdirewolf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/HKdirewolf)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/4 "2017-01-23T13:26:42Z")
Bless.
10 chars
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### Author:  [@AngryMidget](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AngryMidget)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/5 "2017-01-23T13:27:05Z")
Not a great start, but why quit the battle when your first troop dies?
If that troop is so important to the team maybe it shouldn’t be at the front of the pack.
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### Author:  [@Zuboki](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuboki)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/6 "2017-01-23T13:28:21Z")
> [@Mgla](#):
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> The AI cheats
Seriously, what benefit would there be to programming a cheating AI designed to piss off the player? You conspiracy theorists always make me laugh.
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### Author:  [@Mgla](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mgla)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/7 "2017-01-23T13:28:45Z")
Which then wastes its high atrack. But I get it. I should just spend til I git gud (Bone Dragon)
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### Author:  [@Mgla](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mgla)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/8 "2017-01-23T13:34:07Z")
Never been up on video games and “difficulty level” has always been chained to “the computer cheats” have you?
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### Author:  [@Zuboki](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuboki)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/9 "2017-01-23T13:37:00Z")
I have. It makes sense with things like racing games, where the enemy “rubberbands” closer to you as you drive better. But for a luck-based puzzle game, the skill ceiling is much lower, and I maintain that there’s no reason for cheating AI to be added. You had a few unlucky drops and rage quit. It happens.
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### Author:  [@AngryMidget](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AngryMidget)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/10 "2017-01-23T13:46:29Z")
I’ve had Bone Dragon for about 400 levels and only used him for two battles. I’m guessing you’re relatively new?
Give it time, pick the easy battles, join a guild and build your team up. In time you’ll get a decent roster to pick from and you’ll be able to breeze past Bone Dragon.
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### Author:  [@Jainus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jainus)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/11 "2017-01-23T13:50:00Z")
Are you on console? Or on iOS/Steam?
(on console, there is something janky going on with the AI and “random” drops and chains, for sure - but on the older iOS/Steam versions, we’re pretty sure it’s simply randomness and recall bias)
> [@Zuboki](#):
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> Seriously, what benefit would there be to programming a cheating AI designed to piss off the player? You conspiracy theorists always make me laugh.
Actually the AI does cheat: in the other way… For new players, up to about level 50 (I think) the random drops are tweaked to disadvantage the AI slightly and avoid giving it too many chains or free attacks… After this, just random…
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### Author:  [@Jalijer](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jalijer)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/12 "2017-01-23T15:24:26Z")
When the current difficulty settings were introduced, the devs announced what was happening before the change and how they fixed it. I know it’s almost a year old, but this is the latest stuff I could find about difficulty that the devs mention in official news (and haven’t changed it, unless they changed something and didn’t tell us).
> [@Patch 1.0.9 Preview Part 2](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/patch-1-0-9-preview-part-2/4296):
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> Originally published at: [http://gemsofwar.com/patch-1-0-9-preview-part-2/](http://gemsofwar.com/patch-1-0-9-preview-part-2/) 1.0.9 is almost upon us. Read on and find out more! In our first preview we detailed Hero Classes. You can see the first preview [here](http://gemsofwar.com/1-0-9-preview-part-1-hero-classes/) In this second part, we’re going to cover all the other little features of 1.0.9, so we thought a blog & screenshot approach would be clearer. Mail We've introduced an in-game mail system. Most of the rewards you receive in-game will now come via the mail. This includes login bonuses, d…
Quoted from this thread (by Sirrian):
_"We have removed difficulty from both Arena and PvP Invasion/Defense. Now as you progress in rank from 15 to 1, and in Arena from 0 wins to 8 wins, the AI Combo Breaker will gradually turn off, to make the games fair (and a little harder)._
_For anyone wondering what the AI Combo Breaker is, it’s a clever little piece of code that biases the game in your favor, making sure the AI never gets too lucky with gems dropping in (unless YOU get very lucky first!). We think that anyone progressing up to the top ranks of PvP/Arena deserves a bit more of a challenge though, so now you will get a fair fight!"_
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### Author:  [@Salibu](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Salibu)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/yeah-great-start-to-the-week/18809/13 "2017-01-23T19:34:03Z")
Goblins drop for every new player and everyone Ive introduced to the game loved playing them until they got enough cards to build something else. They are fool proof early game.
Build a Goblin team…have fun…get new cards…
Build a team around your desire.
There is no AI cheating.