Civs settling close with no penalty

[benvee]

At 150 BC...Australian civ creates a city 4 places from one of mine and 6 places from another and yet there is no penalty at all. In my case, when I go to create a city..if I am NINE spaces away, I am normally getting a loyalty penalty of -8 to -3 regardless of the Civ I choose.

What gives?

 

[criZp]

Depends on population, for one. You can see that with the loyalty lens.

 

[Tech Osen]

And golden/normal/dark age.

 

[benvee]

Depends on population, for one. You can see that with the loyalty lens.

Thanks....will do that next time!

 

[Bangau]

Also, don't forget cultural alliance, that stops loyalty pressure (both ways).

 

[sdtum21]

Random question related to the topic - Does difficulty affect loyalty for the AI? Like do they suffer less pressure/put out more on higher difficulties?

 

[Victoria]

Does difficulty affect loyalty for the AI?

The main thing with difficulty is cities grow faster at higher levels, there is more of them and golden seems more plausible despite being less turns so sure, the effect is indirect but there.

 

[Basajaun]

Damn I feel you. I hate Australia as well. Settling on your face and then culture bombing into your lands with his smug face, baiting you to war to boost him and think, "this was a bad idea". Aaaaarghhh
Like, settling more than 10 tiles away from his cluster of cities, not losing loyalty because I have a garbage growing zone with plains and my cities still dont clasify as "cities" but more like "there where the bearded weird man lives".

 

[Finvola]

I'm so sick of Australia that I might disable that pack for a bit. It feels like he always spawns right next to me and does stuff just like that. You're right about his smug face! It's very nukeable!

 

[Basajaun]

I'm so sick of Australia that I might disable that pack for a bit. It feels like he always spawns right next to me and does stuff just like that. You're right about his smug face! It's very nukeable!

Toss him into El Teide on a hot day