AI's mishandling of spreading Corporations

[bonafide11]

I noticed what seems to be a major "bug" in the Artificial (lack of) Intelligence. While I like the fact the AI is willing to build corporate executives and spread corporations, it seems to have no understanding of where to spread the corporation. I founded both Sid's Sushi Corp. and the Cereal Mills Corp, and spread both to Shaka's cities. Later I noticed that Shaka was spreading Sid's Sushi and Cereal Mills to all of his cities, including ones that already had the competing corporation. The city of Ulundi literally switched between Sid's Sushi and Cereal Mills every couple turns. Now this doesn't help him at all because he has to pay a significant bonus to buy out and replace the competing corporation, and it's a waste of hammers to build executives to spread competing corporations into the same city. Since I owned both Corps., it really made no impact on me other than it was annoying to see the continuous cycle of "Sid's Sushi Corp has spread in Ulundi" one turn and two turns later seeing "Cereal Mills has spread in Ulundi." The AI should be smart enough to know which Corp provides a larger bonus to them and to stick with that instead of constantly switching between the two.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is it confirmed to be a bug, and will it hopefully be fixed in a patch?

Overall though, I'm really enjoying the game and congratulations to Firaxis and the BTS development team for creating another incredible game!

 

[Lord_Azazel]

That just makes me cackle my mackle...

One thing I wonder though, if you spread the corps to damage other civs economy, wont they be able to do it towards you as well? Meaning once you spread your corp in their cities they can spread it back into all of your cities even if you don't want it, damaging your economy as well...

 

[PieceOfMind]

lol and Firaxis were claiming that the AI knows how to use all the new features!

This is a pretty serious one because (as I just said for another bug) it allows players to exploit the AI's stupidity.

Just for the sake of more quickly confirming the bug, could you please post a save after the city has switched the corp several times? Plus I want to see this for myself.

 

[ainwood]

A save (or a couple of them) here would help. The AIs can benefit from spreading corporations, but switching back & forth does seem a bit strange.