AI doesn't use Great People effectively?

[Merum]

I put this up for some of the more serious scholars of the game to look into...

Last night I was playing a normal speed game on Noble with a standard map. The Malinese were on my eastern border with a very small country (Which was a cultural monster, but I digress) and St. Thomas Aquinas (Great Prophet) appeared sometime around 1400 or so.

He sat, right in the city he was born, until the end of the game. Unused, unmoved.

Is the AI smart enough to use these effectively? Was it a function of the level I was playing on? Interesting...

 

[Kylearan]

Hi,

He [great prophet] sat, right in the city he was born, until the end of the game. Unused, unmoved.

The AIs use great prophets. For example, I've captured cities which had a shrine for the religion that had been founded there in it.

In your case, he most probably saved him until he got more great people to start another golden age with them.

-Kylearan

 

[Dairuka]

70% of the AI's leaders go towards free technologies.

Thats how they keep up.

25% of the AI's leaders go towards crappy Golden Ages.

5% of the AI's leaders are used for their primary purposes. Such as Shrines, Gold Boosts, or Scientific Academies.

 

[Merum]

hmm...

I know that the Malinese produced more great people during that period, but that specific one was not used.

I won a space victory in this game with like 50 turns left, so 1400 up until then is a long time to go unused. Maybe it's just my perception.

 

[bugmenot17]

Having one Great Prophet sit around makes sense if the AI was trying to save it for a Golden Age but didn't realize his one city was only going to keep making Great Prophets.

 

[Luhh]

I've seen other appaling decisions like an academy in a city that couldn't get past size 8, where they had a city of their own with the capacity to reach 23 with their current worker improvements...

 

[gakkun]

70% of the AI's leaders go towards free technologies.

Thats how they keep up.

25% of the AI's leaders go towards crappy Golden Ages.

5% of the AI's leaders are used for their primary purposes. Such as Shrines, Gold Boosts, or Scientific Academies.

GAs aren't crappy if you have large empire. And in this game one of the AIs built like 3 Academies so they don't always use them for techs or GAs.