Bad idea. Part of the beauty of AW/AH was/is playing against human opponents. I have no interest in playing against AI. There's many other games where I could do that without paying a subscription fee.
Then you would be less likely to join the horde. In a way you have just increased the defenders' chances by 1
and that could be one less vulcher, one less tool shedder, one less BnZr, or one less pair of eyes.
Have you flown any of the offline missions? If so, you
pretty much don't HAVE to fight the AI, but depending on how accurate they set their gunners, you might need to avoid them.
You could easily avoid them by not joining a HORDE. I explained that
AI would only be available1 in my idea (which you either don't entirely understand or didn't read that part) if there were a certain *
1(large) number of enemy counted (dar bar) in the same sector as that field they would depart from. In another thread, I explained that the AI in the mission planner are
actually place holders, and if actual
players join the mission, they would take an AI slot. Basically, the AI insures that a mission under the above defense conditions, may
launch almost immediately with the planner and at least 3 other planes.
So, to answer the OP's question, what would make it worth my while to defend, I say all of the above, assuming that HTC would grant those 2 wishes:- 3 AI available in times of defense
- AI that respond to 2 commands, form up (with the smarts to land and end sortie when I do) and attack
In the meantime, the previously lone wolf defender has the option to spawn wingmen to draw fire away or camoflague emergency take offs from capped fields by assigning each AI a different runway direction.