I have encountered a serious bug in the last SVN: My city didn't grow beyond the size 1, even it collected all the food, and i was producing surplus food. I started another game, and no problem occurred. So I don't know, how often that bug would appear. (Edit: I did not encounter this bug again, maybe it was a coincidence.)
I have read that with the last SVN, you have updated that the AI now prioritize the food a bit more. It is a good change, because I realised in my last game, that somewhere around late middle ages/renaissance, i have 15-20 sized cities, and all my opponents have mediocre cities with size 8-10 or so. Except for the Korea, which had magnificent 20+ sized cities. As a matter of fact, I and the Korea were dominating the game. The thing is, Korea has this very nice Farms with extra
so the AI automatically prioritize those improvements, and builds them all over the place, while the other civs think that normal farms are not good enough and build cottages (and don't work them afterwards :S).
But now, I'm playing the last version, and I did not observe any changes in the AI's choice of working tiles: Since you seem to be happy with the AI, I start to think, that there is a problem in my computer. My problem is this: I clear all the worked tiles. And turn the citizen automatization on. AI selects the worked tiles, and it actually makes a good choice. So I leave the things as they are, and play further. And at some point, AI suddenly decides not to work the cool 3
1
1:commerce tile any more and changes to a 0
3
0
tile. And as a result, AI lets to city grow in 12 turns instead of 4.
Now lets do some math: Lets say, I work the 3-1-1 tile for 4 turns and after the city grows I start the work the tile 0-3-0 additionally. At the end of 12 turns I've produced:
(3-1-1)*12 + (0-3-0)*8 = 36-36-12
Whereas AI works the 0-3-0 tile for 12 turns. He produces:
(0-3-0)*12 = 0-36-0
So I've produced 12 extra
, same amount of
, and my city grew to the next level.
So my problem is, actually AI starts well, but at some point messes things up, and I wonder, does the AI the same in your computers too?