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>...why?
Because your average person picking up a video game to play is not trying to beat Skynet levels of super computation. They're trying to have fun while unwinding. The goal of the comp controlled enemies is to offer resistance to the player's advance and little else.

Part of the reason why enemies in random encounters tend to be pushovers is to give an opportunity for the players to try out their new gear, new spells, new skills, and do it in a very low risk environment. You up the difficulty too much and players start to turtle inward and rely on what they already know and that really sucks when you then turn of the difficulty a notch, relying on your players to be smart enough to try out the new tools you gave them, but they didn't because the enemies were overtuned, and now the completely reasonable content that would've been a cakewalk is now a chore because i order for the player to get their old strategy to work in the new dungeon that had the new mechanic(s) in mind in it's creation they need to level grind. Then they complain that the dungeon is either "too difficult" or the "grind is boring" because they were too scared to try something new and all your feedback is pointing at the new dungeon instead of the overtuned enemies that caused the initial turtling.

>Attacking someone you can't hit is a stupid thing to do.
So too is it when the comp decides to spread out damage across an entire party instead of focus firing everything on one character like you do to the enemy teams. Doubly so for not bee-lining for your healer every time, but that doesn't feel fun to experience. If the comp were alive it wouldn't be having fun, fortunately it's not, it's just a bot. So it can make stupid decisions and sub-optimal plays for the benefit of the players' enjoyment.

>Obviously if you want your AI to act smart you wouldn't make them target someone it can't hit.
A comp that's smart *enough* to a point. Again, we do not want Skynet.

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