Hi all.
I've been a civilization nut since way back in the mid nineties, I've loved all the iterations of the game and have racked up hundreds of hours on civ 5 up til now.
A couple of years ago, I got the Brave New World expansion. I thought first that the additions it made were great, they really fleshed out many of the game's parts and added whole new onjectives and ways to play.
But then i went theough three whole games without a war. I'm a defensive player and play only on single player, so usually I avoid war unless I'm attacked or there's some tyrannical empire on the planet I can fight against. I noticed that as well as hardly ever finding myself at war, the AI players now seemed massively stunted. Most games now end with around half of the land in the world uncolonised, it's not unusual to see luxury and tactical resources uncaptured just outside AI borders. The AI player seem to be totally uninterested in expansion at all, and when they do, they tend to spread out widely and end up as small island cities not connected by and cohesive border.
I decided to myself that my play style just wasn't compatible with the new expansion, but even if I was attempting conquest victories it would be mostly a walkover, as the AI players usually have only a few cities. Turning the difficulty level up doesn't alter the way the AI players now work, it just makes it more difficult to grow my own empire.
It made me leave the game. I really love the additions of BNW, but it seems to have made the game pointless. I keep returning to it, thinking maybe an update will correct it, but usually I get halfway through a game and lose interest. I decided to try again last week, a few days later I feel let down again.
Yet I've seen no-one else mention this anywhere. Have I got something set up wrong? Or is everyone just playing multiplayer? Everybody seems to be unanimously agreed that BNW has improved the game and nobody else ever mentions the stunted AI empires, lack of any real aggression in either expansion or warfare, or the fact that most ganes now end with most of the worlds uncolonised.
Am I the only one this is happening to, or does nobody else mind?
I've been a civilization nut since way back in the mid nineties, I've loved all the iterations of the game and have racked up hundreds of hours on civ 5 up til now.
A couple of years ago, I got the Brave New World expansion. I thought first that the additions it made were great, they really fleshed out many of the game's parts and added whole new onjectives and ways to play.
But then i went theough three whole games without a war. I'm a defensive player and play only on single player, so usually I avoid war unless I'm attacked or there's some tyrannical empire on the planet I can fight against. I noticed that as well as hardly ever finding myself at war, the AI players now seemed massively stunted. Most games now end with around half of the land in the world uncolonised, it's not unusual to see luxury and tactical resources uncaptured just outside AI borders. The AI player seem to be totally uninterested in expansion at all, and when they do, they tend to spread out widely and end up as small island cities not connected by and cohesive border.
I decided to myself that my play style just wasn't compatible with the new expansion, but even if I was attempting conquest victories it would be mostly a walkover, as the AI players usually have only a few cities. Turning the difficulty level up doesn't alter the way the AI players now work, it just makes it more difficult to grow my own empire.
It made me leave the game. I really love the additions of BNW, but it seems to have made the game pointless. I keep returning to it, thinking maybe an update will correct it, but usually I get halfway through a game and lose interest. I decided to try again last week, a few days later I feel let down again.
Yet I've seen no-one else mention this anywhere. Have I got something set up wrong? Or is everyone just playing multiplayer? Everybody seems to be unanimously agreed that BNW has improved the game and nobody else ever mentions the stunted AI empires, lack of any real aggression in either expansion or warfare, or the fact that most ganes now end with most of the worlds uncolonised.
Am I the only one this is happening to, or does nobody else mind?
