Cheating AI

[HoboOfSerenity]

Okay so I got back into Civ to try out the new expansion pack. Had a few games without any problems but suddenly when I created this new game, I notice Russia's getting max border expansions on her cities instantly. She's got a giant army and when I trade with her I notice she's got OVER 100,000 gold. I downloaded a mod to let me edit ingame and reduced her gold to 100 like the rest of us was stuck with. A few turns later, she's right back at 100,000 gold.

What is going on here? I know the AI occationally cheat with minor stuff but at prince she shouldn't be getting 100k in the first 10 turns of the game. That sort of crap just means she's completely unbeatable, even if I were to take an army to her to try and stop her, with three cities, she's just buying 3 new units every turn since having -30 gold per turn isn't exactly going to bother her anytime soon. I concidered using the mod again to lower her gold, but if this is just going to keep going, why bother.

Is there any way to solve this thing that don't include me having to get a bunch more cities and avoid getting stupidly high development costs at this point in the game? I thought about just creating a new one, but right now I'm about 100 turns into the game and spent a fair bit of hours already and got pretty good placement on my cities. Besides, for all I know, starting a new game will just add another cheating AI.

Mind you, NONE of the other AI's are cheating this way.

 

[Monado]

Sounds like a bug, or a problem with the mod you are using specifically.

Not the AI "cheating".

 

[HoboOfSerenity]

Must be a bug then, because I'm not using any mods, save the one I used to fix the problem the first time, though after I did I turned it off.

New game it is -.- Thanks.

 

[elijahfire]

Okay so I got back into Civ to try out the new expansion pack. Had a few games without any problems but suddenly when I created this new game, I notice Russia's getting max border expansions on her cities instantly. She's got a giant army and when I trade with her I notice she's got OVER 100,000 gold. I downloaded a mod to let me edit ingame and reduced her gold to 100 like the rest of us was stuck with. A few turns later, she's right back at 100,000 gold.

What is going on here? I know the AI occationally cheat with minor stuff but at prince she shouldn't be getting 100k in the first 10 turns of the game. That sort of crap just means she's completely unbeatable, even if I were to take an army to her to try and stop her, with three cities, she's just buying 3 new units every turn since having -30 gold per turn isn't exactly going to bother her anytime soon. I concidered using the mod again to lower her gold, but if this is just going to keep going, why bother.

Is there any way to solve this thing that don't include me having to get a bunch more cities and avoid getting stupidly high development costs at this point in the game? I thought about just creating a new one, but right now I'm about 100 turns into the game and spent a fair bit of hours already and got pretty good placement on my cities. Besides, for all I know, starting a new game will just add another cheating AI.

Mind you, NONE of the other AI's are cheating this way.

Because editing in game isn't cheating so you have every right to be indignant.

 

[HoboOfSerenity]

Yeah because 100k gold on AI's is normal at the tenth turn.

Trust me, if I had done anything with it other than end up getting on trough steam workshop when googling the bug, cheat or whatever you want to call it and use it to remove the insane amount of gold the AI got; I'd be keeping my mouth shut and destroying her cities with sneakily spawned zeroes while pointing a finger at the screen menacingly and screaming "BUUUUURN you N'wah!" at the top of my voice.

When she pilfered the bank of the monopoly man for the 100k, the game was completely vanilla and freshly downloaded off steam for about a day. Wasn't a mod who did it, so I guess this is some sort of freaky bug from the accelereated turns early on.

 

[joncnunn]

I'm not sure why the AI would have had that much gold on turn 10.

However, the AI isn't allowed to spend it effectively.
1. AI is not allowed to ever cash rush a building.
2. The AIs military rating must be below a certain threshold in order to cash rush a unit.
3. AIs tend to sit on their cash pile of gold instead of using it to buy city state allies.

 

[FrostK]

Sounds like a display bug. Recently in game my friend saw an AI with 100k+ gpt, when for me it was displayed like 200.