Clemens Katzer - 2018-01-24

I am kind of amazed that someone even still plays/knows Colossus... or bothers to make reports.

As you might have noticed, nobody is working on this any more. I myself have no time for it either. So the only thing that I do, is keep the public game server running so that players can meet other players.

Regarding your actual report: No it can't.

I suspect your experience is rather caused by an observation bias, than actual fact. As in: you notice the situations where it attacks your titan stronger than when it would attack the Angel.

Technically, the AI has not more access to information of the human players (or the other AI players) legion content, than you. It can track things better, and make conclusions based on that.

It might take information into account like "this legion could have recruited there but didn't" and so on. The strongest hint it will probably take from how you split, in terms of "keep titan always with strongest stuff".

It's long ago, but as far as I remember, the guessing about where the Titan is (or where anything is, for that matter), is based on the same principles as the AI would split itself. Like, it has a current "best guess" what is where, and when you split, it applies it's own split strategy and uses that as base for new situation "where is probably what" after a split. Only if something is revealed, it corrects it's guesses, in terms of, "ok, so back in turn one the lonely gargoyle went there, not into the ancestor of this legion here", so it swaps the "guess" down there, and then possibly applying "what would go where" logic all over again over all subsequent splits.

I suggest you try the following: do for a while some silly splitting, like, keep the Titan with the smaller legion and so on. This might mislead the AI. And if it does, it proves that the "it always guesses" ... is in fact: "it guesses very well", but not based on an unfair access to information.

All the best,
Clemens