Does anybody use the random personallities buttom?

[apocalypse105]

Sow i was wondering does anybody use the option rondom personallities in the game option. Does it drasticly change the game and will you actually see personallities changing because sometimes it looks like they are all the same.

Anybody experience with this is the game harder or just easier?

 

[jagdtigerciv]

I have done it a few times. I find it actually sort of makes things easier sometimes. Since, in many civ's cases their personality is tied to their unique abilities, units, buildings, etc.

Take Siam for example, whose unique ability is based around city state bonus'. With random personalties, there is a chance they won't get a city-state/diplomatic flavour. Of course, things won't be necessarily easier if by chance they get a personality flavour that suits the civilization.

For that reason, I typically don't turn it on.

 

[KungCheops]

I use it all the time. It makes the game a lot more diverse and harder to predict. I think it's good if you tire of playing the same game over and over again.

 

[Minf]

I use it in every game. I like the variety. You have to pay attention to learn the behaviors/personalities of your neighbors over the course of the game, which I think can actually be more difficult, at times. It makes me much more reluctant to ally early, for fear of hitching my wagon to a surprise warmonger. You also experience some unusual, but difficult, combinations -- like in my current game I'm facing a war-mongering Gandhi with super-fortified cities, and he is a very tough nut to crack. I fear that his war with me, if it drags on much longer, is going to cost me the game. But somebody has to stop him.

I get the impression, purely anecdotally, that random personalities overall are more "moderate" than the default personalities. Only about two or three civs per game really stand out as having unique personalities. There's usually one clear warmonger, one clear CS-monger, and maybe one science-pusher, but most of the civs seem to blend together into an unremarkable, moderate style.

 

[bcaiko]

I like to use Random Personalities, too. It's fun to meet a remarkibly nice Monty or a Warlike Ghandi. I wonder if even with the random personalities, though, there is still some kind of consideration from the AI toward using their civ's unique trait? Sometimes it seems like there is to me.

 

[JoeBas]

Sow i was wondering does anybody use the option rondom personallities in the game option. Does it drasticly change the game and will you actually see personallities changing because sometimes it looks like they are all the same.

Anybody experience with this is the game harder or just easier?

Yes, I use it often.

As far as the change... meh, it's usually not drastic.

Everyone eventually gets Guarded or Hostile. They just do it in a different order than normal.

 

[apocalypse105]

Yes, I use it often.

As far as the change... meh, it's usually not drastic.

Everyone eventually gets Guarded or Hostile. They just do it in a different order than normal.

Yeah i would try it ok thanxs thinx this topic can go closed dont know how this system works do you need to remove it yourself or?

 

[turtlefang]

I use it most games. It makes it a little more interesting and some of the civs that don't usually expand much - like Monty - will all of a sudden turn into a monster growth bug. Or India can become a warmonger Napoleon.

But it doesn't change things a whole lot.

 

[Omega124]

The only differencs between the AIs in my games are "I'm going to hate you now" or "I'm going to hate you later". So no thanks, I would like to know who is going to backstab me first.

 

[bcaiko]

The only differencs between the AIs in my games are "I'm going to hate you now" or "I'm going to hate you later". So no thanks, I would like to know who is going to backstab me first.

See, this is why I turn Random Personalities on. I don't want to always know that the Aztecs and Siam are going to backstab me. I like to be surprised like I would by a human player.