AI never goes for the new world?

[crossmr]

I've played a few terra map games, and I find the AI never goes for the new world. They'll sometimes settle islands near them, but they'll never ever go for the new continent.
When satellite finally pops, half the map is unused.
Anyone ever see the AI go for it?

 

[JaGarLo]

Never, bud. I played one game on Terra and any AI tried to bring settlers there. Firaxis should change the AI's behaviour so it can find out that new cities in a continent without any other civs could be interesting.

 

[DemonMaster]

<> When satellite finally pops, half the map is unused. <>

This also mean that you have not settled "the new world" either. Othwise the empty half of the map would have been settled by you.

Other than that. I have actually seen this, but I haven't played Terra so much, nor do I play on the highest difficulty levels.

 

[crossmr]

This also mean that you have not settled "the new world" either. Othwise the empty half of the map would have been settled by you.

Other than that. I have actually seen this, but I haven't played Terra so much, nor do I play on the highest difficulty levels.

With Korea it's harder to go settle the new world
and I also find the happiness system far more limiting in that regard.
But I have settled it sometimes. But I haven't necessarily explored the entire continent. Sometimes they are large and my city there is busy with other things than exploration.

 

[Cheeseisgood]

Yeah they don't explore. 9 times out of 10, someone gets big, fast and engulfs everyone on Terra which gives little time for anyone to go exploring. Unfortunately I've had to stop playing Terra because I've discovered you either get engulfed and destroyed, or you have to be the one that does the engulfing. There seems to be no middle ground.

Often by the time you have optics and astronomy etc, the "new world" has been cluttered up with about 75% of the city states ingame which actually leaves very few desirable places to settle once they've all expanded to a large area.

Terra seems to be a flawed map design when the AI don't know how to use it.

 

[bcaiko]

The AI in general does a bad job expanding to new continents. While I'm happy with the last patch's changes, I do hope Firaxis will address this to make the AI more viable. It's not like they have any concerns about happiness, anyway, when it comes to founding cities.

 

[Zenstrive]

I usually settle the new world right after Steel and Caravel