DICE Team
@S3SSioN_SoL wrote:
For those who wonder why there's no AI in Portal, it's because enabling AI in Portal forces the server to restrict as much XP as possible, this is nonsensical if Modifiers, Restrictions or the Rules Editor is untouched as this would make the Portal server identical to that which is found in "All-out warfare". The only difference being that the host decides which maps to play on and that the server is persistent.
The new Ground Superiority and Air Superiority modes force the XP to be Moderate, why? By default the game modes have ZERO vehicles in the game, so by adding them, the XP immediately becomes Moderate. I am so confused by this oversight. The "Restrictions" tab which is where choosing the number of vehicles is found shouldn't have anything to do with XP as they don't affect difficulty but vehicle numbers, honestly the only time there should be an XP reduction is when certain scenarios occur such as disabling Stingers and RPGs but allowing Vehicles, is it difficult to set Portal up to recognize such imbalances and apply restrictions accordingly in these scenarios? I don't know. As it stands, Portal quite simply punishes hosts for attempting to host a server that makes up for what "All-out warfare" lacks.
It's simple really, I want to host a fully vanilla server that is identical in nature to "All-out warfare servers" with DEFAULT AI, on both Portal Maps and Standard Maps but I can't. Because the XP restriction system is absolutely nonsensical.
AI and the Rules Editor are currently the only options that affect XP gains. So if you notice that changing other Restrictions are impacting XP, that sounds like a bug to me which I'll flag with the team to check out.
I've also forwarded the request to enable AI use so the team can review for further options.
