AI Stupidity

[krotzers]

Well, I've found that the computer builds the same wonder in several of its cities at once. I don't think you can benefit off of that, can you? I'm reading the book now... so if I find out that building wonders in several cities speeds it up, I'll feel like an ass.

 

[BlueMonday]

If you build one wonder in many cities, then once one is built, you can switch the other cities to other wonders and then -because you already have a stockpile of resources- you can build the next wonders very quickly.

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[Mongol Horde]

Originally posted by BlueMonday:
If you build one wonder in many cities, then once one is built, you can switch the other cities to other wonders and then -because you already have a stockpile of resources- you can build the next wonders very quickly.

Yeah but is the AI clever enough to do that?

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

It proabably has logic something like

If city meets criteria A, B, and C, try to build a wonder there.

Then in each wonder-building city: What available wonder is most important to me?

So the logic ends up building the same wonder in multiple cities. I originally thought it was a design flaw because they forget to see if that wonder is being built in other cities. but the more I think about it, it's probably a conscious decision by the AI designers so that the first city that completes a wonder completes the most important one without trying to project shield rates to put priority wonders in the proper cities. Once the most important wonder is built, All cities switch those shields to the next most important and the next city to complete a wonder gets the next priority, etc.

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[Az]

All cities switch those shields to the next most important and the next city to complete a wonder gets the next priority, etc.

Nahh most of the time it cancels production.....

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