Re: Screwing over PvE players again...
Yep I was thinking they were letting us play with the options in the attached image (indicated orange) if AI was kept on default, not allowing the other modifiers (indicated blue).
However, I misread the twitter post, and I'm quite sure Maxthewicked is correct - turning AI on turns off progression.
Essentially I played around with setting up portal game modes when the game released but haven't for the past month and a half so I forgot AI wasn't on by default.
So you are also correct that AI isn't on by default which is dumb. I guess I'm just used to seeing so much AI in AoW that I assumed the settings would match up.
I'm now so much less hyped about the update, I figured portal servers would get populated because players would at least be able to turn AI on and play against them whilst waiting for players to join, but this doesn't seem to be the case.