disable AI cheating?

[entropy65536]

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to disable the AI cheating. Things like the accelerated tech advances and unit/city improvement building they get. The cheating doesn't make the game more difficult as it does make it annoying.

-entropy65536

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

Just play at the Emperor level then. At that level, the AI gets no bonuses and neither do you. The only real difference between that and Deity is the unhappiness factor.

 

[Smash]

actually the ai is at par with the player at king level.Or vice versa

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

Originally posted by Smash
actually the ai is at par with the player at king level.Or vice versa

Yeah, you're right (as usual). I knew it was the fourth level up, but I forgot about the Prince level when I was counting.

 

[Ren]

Uhh, isn't it Prince? I always thought that was the equal battle...

 

[Grey Fox]

I don't know which diff it is for civ2, but in Civ3 there is no cheating in Regent, the third difficulty.

If I'm not mistaking I think prince is it's equal in Civ2, right?

Then my bet is that "Prince" is the difficulty in Civ2 were the comp does not cheat...

 

[Ren]

Well, Prince is in the same position as Regent in the scale (I have Civ 1, 2 and 3) In Civ 1 though there is no Deity level so I don't know what the 'half way point' is there

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

My manual is long since burried somewhere, but I always thought it was the fourth level up that was the even play. Chieftian, Warlord, Prince, King....

Just checked it in the game. King is the even play. Prince penalizes the AI (12 shields per row rather than 10).

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

I'm pretty sure it's Prince BTW why is it 'annoying'?

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

This is what I did....

I started a new game and chose accelerated start-up. Then I turned on cheat mode and looked into an AI city. On the Prince level the AI players need 12 shields to fill a row in their production box, where as the player only needs 10. So, Prince is not the level where the game is equal.

I checked the same thing on the king level and the row is only 10 shields for the AI. So, King is the level where it is equal.

Here's a shot of an AI city in the Prince level game: