AI expansion

[maule]

what is up whit the ai's setteling their new cities halfway across the map from their capital just to get that 1 luxury resourse. it ruins the game for me later in the game as spread out empires are easier to be at war whit than a "compact" one

I suspect its the 5 tiles away for city placement mod I have but I never really had that problem in G&K except late game

 

[mrwho]

I've seen other people say on these forums that it might be down to the new trade route mechanic, with AI civs settling closer to you do set up trade routes. Either way though I hope it gets fixed.

 

[EgyptRaider]

They should reintroduce the maintance cost they had in Civ IV the further cities are from their capital the higher the costs. Ofcourse it should be compensated to prevent wide empires being completely worthless....

 

[Tachii]

It will probably be fixed in a future patch. It seem like a glaring flaw in the AI's "intelligence".