Best civs for the A.I.

[Mailbox]

Auric is strange in that he does very well (score leader by far) if he decides to make his capital a unit production center and doesn't do as well otherwise (I've seen him wiped out by the barbarians in plenty of games). It makes sense based on his capital bonus but I think the AI needs to realize what that really means for him.

Since the elven worker AI is going to be improved in .32, I'm scared of the impact on Faeryl, since she's always one of the top AIs. This might also make the Ljosalfar a force that has a major effect on games.

 

[Monkeyfinger]

What's this about Auric doing well?

He consistently does -okay-, but he never, ever does anything really impressive like Ethne's ******** land grabbing and vassalizing, Varn's crazy tech pace, Faeryl's brutal backstabs, the Lanun iron sledgehammer, Perpentach's choosing or combination of any of the above, etc. Auric's not bad, but the only way he's ever the best AI is if he gets really lucky or is competing with rather bad AI civs like the Khazad, Amurites and Bannor.

 

[Mailbox]

In my current game, he's number one by over 400 points and that's how he usually does in my experience (if he doesn't go down early). This is with Cassiel, Faeryl, Garrim, and Cardith in the game, in order of score. I think that he does well because his heavily promoted units are great at taking barbarian cities as they pop up.

I want to say Cassiel usually does well but just doesn't seem right. Unless of course, he just does well because no one goes to war with him because of religion.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

That doesn't hurt, but for some reason - perhaps the fact that he mostly ignores the religion line due to settings - he's usually also got a solid economy going after the +4xp units from his palace let him stake out a whole bunch of turf. It's completely counterintuitive for the reincarnation of Mulcarn to be a genius of urban planning, but by the standards of the AI, he sort of is.

I'm not sure thats it either. In .30 he couldn't adopt religions but also didn't have agnostic trait, so he could still found them. He often founded 4 religions (wasting his research since he could do nothing with them) but was still one of the est leaders.


Also, the +4 xp is only for melee units and only in his capital. In my version I gave the Doviello palace +3 xp global xp, and they still don't seem to do nearly as well as Auric. (Of course, I also made the buildings that they can't build give xp to the appropriate unitcombats)

 

[tharg]

Perpentach always seems to do well and he is the only one I've had summon the Infernals.

Best IMHO. The AI does not fit its strategy to its traits particularly well, so they might as well be random. In which case Perpentach just has one extra trait.