magicalsushi
Prince
(or Favoritism if you're American)
This subject in general has been raised countless times, but I've generally dismissed it as I've never seen genuinely egregious examples in my games until now. I'm talking about when the AI treat each other far better than they'd ever consider treating the human player.
In my current game, I'm fighting an earlyish (extremely early by my standards; late by anyone else's) war against Lincoln, who only had access to iron. Naturally, I pillaged the iron ASAP. Next turn, he's churning out spearmen to kill my precious Keshiks. His neighbour Isabella is selling it to him for 1 gpt.
Oh come on, 1 gpt! That's a complete joke. It's not even "could you spare us this", it's an actual trade. If I recall correctly, she's pleased with him, barely. She might even be cautious. I can't imagine any AI giving me a strategic resource for 1 gpt even if they were friendly with me. In fact, I can't imagine an AI giving me so much as a health resource for 1 gpt.
If you ask "could you spare us this?", there's a small chance you'll get a resource for free if they're feeling generous, but the second you add something from your side (1 gpt, for example), suddenly they go into trade mode and forget that they'd be willing to offer something out of goodwill. As such, Isabella presumably really felt that receiving 1 gpt for her copper was a good deal. Of course, if I, the human player, want to buy a strategic resource from an AI, the price is four or five resources plus some gold, on the rare occasions that they'll even consider selling the resource to me in the first place.
Yeah, that's fair.
This subject in general has been raised countless times, but I've generally dismissed it as I've never seen genuinely egregious examples in my games until now. I'm talking about when the AI treat each other far better than they'd ever consider treating the human player.
In my current game, I'm fighting an earlyish (extremely early by my standards; late by anyone else's) war against Lincoln, who only had access to iron. Naturally, I pillaged the iron ASAP. Next turn, he's churning out spearmen to kill my precious Keshiks. His neighbour Isabella is selling it to him for 1 gpt.
Oh come on, 1 gpt! That's a complete joke. It's not even "could you spare us this", it's an actual trade. If I recall correctly, she's pleased with him, barely. She might even be cautious. I can't imagine any AI giving me a strategic resource for 1 gpt even if they were friendly with me. In fact, I can't imagine an AI giving me so much as a health resource for 1 gpt.
If you ask "could you spare us this?", there's a small chance you'll get a resource for free if they're feeling generous, but the second you add something from your side (1 gpt, for example), suddenly they go into trade mode and forget that they'd be willing to offer something out of goodwill. As such, Isabella presumably really felt that receiving 1 gpt for her copper was a good deal. Of course, if I, the human player, want to buy a strategic resource from an AI, the price is four or five resources plus some gold, on the rare occasions that they'll even consider selling the resource to me in the first place.
Yeah, that's fair.
) when I eventually get the time. I play with the game in windowed mode so I can use a music player and IM, and it won't let me take screenshots unless I restart it in full screen mode. Also, I've skimmed so many threads along similar lines to this before that I didn't think it was unprecedented. The only time I've ever bothered to take a screenshot was when the tech page on the foreign advisor showed something that made no sense (I was going to post post it to the bugs forum), but even then I never bothered to upload it. The copper for 1 gpt thing was even less inspiring, but since people seem interested, I'll take a screenshot when I get a chance.
) It always Hacks me off when they manage to get someone else to trade them the resource. 
