AIs and great people

[Whisker]

Some questions of curiosity:
1. Do the AI actively pursue any kind of pulping strategies?
2. Do they even try to generate any GPs or are any born simply side effect of them having build a wonder or two?
3. Providing they do pulp, would it be possible to gift a GP to AI and have them pulp something that is closed to you because you started with fishing or something? (You would probably be better off using the GP on something else yourself, I just curious if this is possible.)

Cheers

 

[AcaMetis]

1. Actively pursue, not to my knowledge. But if they pop a great person they can use them to bulb something, if they so choose.
2. They do run specialists, but I believe only insofar that they have the pop and specialist slots to work them. I don't think they do things like purposefully flip into Caste and run just Artists in a city the hopes of getting a GA for a later cultural victory, or things like that.
3. In theory that is possible, but in practice it's basically impossible for an AI to not ruin a bulb like that before you can get the Great Person to them. And even than there's no guarantee that they'll use the GP to bulb, they might instead decide to use him for a Golden Age or just settle him.

 

[Fippy]

They randomly (so it seems ) run lots of specialists, can be seen in Sulla's AI Survivor.
Sometimes even until cities starve down.

 

[Deathcrush]

They also do a culture bomb sometimes. Just to troll you.

 

[6K Man]

Yes, they routinely culture bomb me to steal tiles and throw cities into disorder. More annoying than anything else.

I do recall one game where I saw an AI run many (8 or so) specialists in one city during a GA, to the point of being in a food deficit. Smart play or just random AI foolishness?

 

[elmurcis]

If AI follows similar rules as player with automatic citizens etc., it will run specialists (if possible) at happy/health cap.
Also automatic citizens will starve city down for short period of food bar (around 80 to 70% or near that area, grow back, repeat slow starvation) with emphasize on GPP and when city is at last third of GPP points it need. Not sure if that the case for AI on its own but rules could be similar. Could be so this all could be working just with human

 

[Gumbolt]

If you have enough EP on the Ai you can view their cities. They pretty much spam every single building. I think the AI are more likely to settle GS or build academies.

 

[Qactus]

Some questions of curiosity:
1. Do the AI actively pursue any kind of pulping strategies?
...

I remember a game, where I was actually beaten to a pulp by AI macemen. Don't know if there was any strategy behind the pulping though, or rather the AI just feeling offended by my attempt to defend my empire with warriors and diplomacy only...

 

[lymond]

I remember a game, where I was actually beaten to a pulp by AI macemen. Don't know if there was any strategy behind the pulping though, or rather the AI just feeling offended by my attempt to defend my empire with warriors and diplomacy only...

And here I thought we were talking about juicing

 

[drewisfat]

The AI seems to have a huge bias towards just settling specialists.