There was a previous thread asking this, but I couldn't find it again (I hate Google forum searching).
I know it was stated that AI players don't know where resources are before they appear, and while that may be true, I played a game yesterday on noble that proved the computer knew where a particular unit of mine was (and shouldn't have known). Maybe this is old news by now, but I wanted to state it for the record .
Again, I was playing on noble difficulty. I had a fish resource outside of my city, and this area was far away from any other civ. I had only my own state religion in the city, and the opponent (Incans) did not share the same state religion as me. This was also before either of us had reached Communism/spies.
I was at war with the Incans, and every time I rebuilt the fish net, the Incans would send their destroyers over to pillage it (from the opposite side of my territory). When I built a new workboat and moved it 1 tile outside of my city, there came the Incan destroyers into my waters to destroy it... when I moved the boat back into the city, the destroyers return to their waters. As you can probably tell, I had no other naval vessels or sea resources being harvested at this time, so I guess the AI didn't have anything better to do with their ships. It's odd to see them move around in little circles like Civ3 when I had nothing for them to attack.
This is only a minor issue in my opinion. Until now, the AI has been performing very well.
I know it was stated that AI players don't know where resources are before they appear, and while that may be true, I played a game yesterday on noble that proved the computer knew where a particular unit of mine was (and shouldn't have known). Maybe this is old news by now, but I wanted to state it for the record .
Again, I was playing on noble difficulty. I had a fish resource outside of my city, and this area was far away from any other civ. I had only my own state religion in the city, and the opponent (Incans) did not share the same state religion as me. This was also before either of us had reached Communism/spies.
I was at war with the Incans, and every time I rebuilt the fish net, the Incans would send their destroyers over to pillage it (from the opposite side of my territory). When I built a new workboat and moved it 1 tile outside of my city, there came the Incan destroyers into my waters to destroy it... when I moved the boat back into the city, the destroyers return to their waters. As you can probably tell, I had no other naval vessels or sea resources being harvested at this time, so I guess the AI didn't have anything better to do with their ships. It's odd to see them move around in little circles like Civ3 when I had nothing for them to attack.
This is only a minor issue in my opinion. Until now, the AI has been performing very well.