After countless games I have come to the conclusion that the AI is unable to understand how crime works. I usually start in prehistoric area on slow or slower gamespeed with no revolution as the AI can't deal with that either. But after a few era advances, more and more nations start to collapse. Their cities start shrinking to size 1. Size 1 cities with 40+ red and green faces. Usually this doesn't happen until industrial, sometimes they stay with me until modern. But from there it has always been downhill. Size 1 cities with 5k+ crime. The worst one I found had too many barbarian units in it to count and the crime was 15k, and yes, that city was size 1 too.
Seems to me the crime makes the AI lose gold and to compansate the AI builds more crimeproducing buildings as they tend to give lots of gold. Thus bringing the crime up even further. I almost never see any LE units (except lawyers) and when the AI is able to build the Robber unit, they start spam-producing it, probably because it is the strongest unit they have. But they keep them in their cities, pushing the crime up even more.
I am of the old school variety and like long balanced games. Thus, I hold myself back and deliberately don't attack or wipe out AI nations, unless I desperately need resources or land to be able to compete with the more successful AIs. And I have a dream of once, just once be able to have a game reach the end era.
So, what I am wondering is. Is it possible to disable crime? I am not asking to remove crimebuildings, just the crime effect until the AI can deal with it.
Because otherwise. the best civ mod out there (c2c) is practically unplayable.
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Seems to me the crime makes the AI lose gold and to compansate the AI builds more crimeproducing buildings as they tend to give lots of gold. Thus bringing the crime up even further. I almost never see any LE units (except lawyers) and when the AI is able to build the Robber unit, they start spam-producing it, probably because it is the strongest unit they have. But they keep them in their cities, pushing the crime up even more.
I am of the old school variety and like long balanced games. Thus, I hold myself back and deliberately don't attack or wipe out AI nations, unless I desperately need resources or land to be able to compete with the more successful AIs. And I have a dream of once, just once be able to have a game reach the end era.
So, what I am wondering is. Is it possible to disable crime? I am not asking to remove crimebuildings, just the crime effect until the AI can deal with it.
Because otherwise. the best civ mod out there (c2c) is practically unplayable.
Moderator Action: Welcome to CivFanatics. Moved to the C2C forum.
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