[C3C] AI research slowdown

[Dobyvatel]

I prefer play individual historical periods longer but AI research is superfast from certain point (cca feudalism).

My custom scenario:
- university and research lab removed
- wonders do not provide any bonuses to research, do not give free advances..
- no scientific leaders etc.

It's better but there is still weird spiral of development where even civs with few cities are on same level as me with 2x or 3x more cities. It's good in medieval but if I start war in cavalry era they have riflemen fast and after some turns also modern infantry. Monarch difficulty.

Is there any way to slow it down more? Like disable AI to AI trading etc? Or I must play on lower difficulty?

 

[Civinator]

Dobyvatel, welcome at CFC!

The easiest way to achieve such a slowdown in accessing techs is to set certain techs to be not tradeable. The more complicated step to change the AI to AI trade rate in the difficulty settings in my eyes is not necessairy.

 

[Dobyvatel]

Thanks. Perfect! I will disable it for some crucial technologies.

 

[Takeo]

The more complicated step to change the AI to AI trade rate in the difficulty settings in my eyes is not necessairy.

Civinator,
What have you encountered that makes changing this setting more complicated?

Is it the possibility of unforeseen results, or is it unbalancing in some way?

 

[Civinator]

Is it the possibility of unforeseen results, or is it unbalancing in some way?

Takeo, balancing changes in these settings in my eyes would need a lot of additional testgames to see if you have achieved proper results.