Diplomatic AI Cheats

[Pietato]

I always assumed they always target the most common luxury which they themselves do not own.

That is exactly what they do.

We need a link of the OP's world resources tab.

 

[Futumch]

I don't know about cheating per se, but I often get the feeling that if you reveal your capital locations to the AI, they use that location as a destination for their Settlers. Kind of like deliniating their "turf", the forward settling buggers that they are.
Programmed to be annoying more than cheating though.

 

[Koljar]

That is exactly what they do.

Which, in the end, is one of the most reliable ways of gaining diplomatic victory points if that's wha you're going for/interested in in that game.

Iirc the AI knows where to settle due to a knowledge of strategic resources before they get researched (by both them and you) - yet they build farms on spots where you know there are horses and then they never replace the farm with a suitable pasture...
I think this is (partly) what leads them to weird city locations (e.g. one off a river). I've never seen the AI build a city and/or district on top of a strategic resource (which I manage to do relatively often).

 

[AntSou]

I'm happy to learn the AI has access to information regarding wonder completion. It makes it that bit more competitive (If indeed this behaviour is true).

I would be disappointed if the AI was getting free production to rush a wonder before the player. But if it's being rushed through legal means, then visibility is a good thing.

This complaint falls into the "I want a better AI, not a cheating AI" category of complaints, which has less to do with the AI and more to do with the user's unreasonable expectations of modern AI in a strategy game.

That's not to say the AI in Civ has no room for improvement. It has, and I wish more focus was put into improving it, but removing these small advantages is certainly no way to do it.