View Full Version : How stupid can an AI be?


Wlauzon
Sep 20, 2006, 05:16 PM
In a game today I was in a permanent alliance with Catherine, and we were both FAR ahead of all others in tech. We were both around 4000, Frederick at 3100, and Eliziabeth at 1700. Between Catherine any myself we had all of about 2.5 contintents covered.

And Lizzy declares war on us... :lol:

50_dollar_bag
Sep 20, 2006, 06:16 PM
On a scale of 1 to stupid, it's about 8.

bitplayer
Sep 20, 2006, 06:42 PM
Well she's at least consistent you have to give her that.

Janus0
Sep 20, 2006, 07:29 PM
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned..:lol:

kniteowl
Sep 21, 2006, 01:42 AM
Maybe she has a higher Power rating because she's been producing ALOT of units or Another AI paid her in techs to go to war with you.

cabert
Sep 21, 2006, 05:21 AM
maybe she's tired of a lost game?

Sir Jaref
Sep 21, 2006, 07:07 AM
Elisabeth: "Hmmm, things aren't going too well. Maybe Wlauzon could give me a tech..."

*declares war*

Elisabeth: "NOOOOO wrong button!!!" :blush:

Tatran
Sep 21, 2006, 09:01 AM
An AI team lost the space race, because they built the SS engine
in cities with low production (more than 100 turns).
Yes, they switched cities for the last part.
They only needed this part to win, while I still had to finish
the Apollo Program. :eek:

Lord Kid
Sep 21, 2006, 12:48 PM
Elisabeth: "Hmmm, things aren't going too well. Maybe Wlauzon could give me a tech..."

*declares war*

Elisabeth: "NOOOOO wrong button!!!" :blush:

Sad thing is, I did this once. I hit the *alt* button instead of *ctrl*. :lol:

weasel77066
Sep 21, 2006, 01:08 PM
Once I signed into a permanent alliance in time to out-run the space race. I had just a few turns left for the Space program, but when we joined together, the program "found" his Space program first, and then told me I could no longer build it.. I assumed he had already built it and cheerily changed production, only to find out that he had not finished it, but was constructing it in the middle of a desert, with 89 turns to go.
"Uncle"

automator
Sep 21, 2006, 01:09 PM
Sad thing is, I did this once. I hit the *alt* button instead of *ctrl*. :lol:

I've done that ... as well as be setting up a huge tech trade, like four of mine for six of theirs, when they refuse it, accidentally take away all their techs and click "would you accept this deal?" There's nothing that makes you feel foolish like giving away 7000 beakers worth of tech away to someone whom you're "cautious" with.

Xenocrates
Sep 21, 2006, 01:31 PM
I have a recollection from years ago of an AI attacking my catapault to decare war in civ 1 or 2.

That doesn't sound crazy, but they attacked it with a diplomat :confused:

The AI has come a long way but it still has far to go! :lol:

Lord Kid
Sep 21, 2006, 01:34 PM
I have a recollection from years ago of an AI attacking my catapault to decare war in civ 1 or 2.

That doesn't sound crazy, but they attacked it with a diplomat :confused:

The AI has come a long way but it still has far to go! :lol:

IIRC, back then catapults couldn't defend themselves so that was a perfectly logical move.

Wlauzon
Sep 21, 2006, 05:46 PM
I've done that ... as well as be setting up a huge tech trade, like four of mine for six of theirs, when they refuse it, accidentally take away all their techs and click "would you accept this deal?" There's nothing that makes you feel foolish like giving away 7000 beakers worth of tech away to someone whom you're "cautious" with.

HAHAHAHA :lol:

I did that just last night. I had 3 very expensive techs, partly from spamming the light bulbs on Great Folks, and asked for a bunch of his lower techs in return.

Oh well, at least it made him "Friendly" towards me :cry:

Pantastic
Sep 21, 2006, 06:26 PM
IIRC, back then catapults couldn't defend themselves so that was a perfectly logical move.

Nope, cats have always been military units. They only had a defense value of 1, but that means they'd get to fight back, and diplomats didn't have an attack value at all so couldn't hurt them. Maybe the AI was trying to bribe your cat.

Thomas G.
Sep 23, 2006, 07:54 AM
In civ 3 they didnt have defense, but were just bombard units

D'Artagnan59
Sep 23, 2006, 08:42 PM
Stupider. I was taking a merry stroll to Verlamion with one scout left guarding the city. He then walks out. We destroy the Celts in one fell swoop.