Frustrating. How to get A.Is to expand?

[Slowpoke]

I'm trying to figure out how to get A.I.s to build more cities. I changed the expansion flavor on all the leaders to 1000, but still no result.

 

[Lonkut]

make settlers cheaper?

 

[Slowpoke]

I doubt that would help. There's still unsettled land in the medeival era!

 

[Djohaal]

Wouldn't it be a problem with unhappiness? I reckon they have a lot of cheats to compensate their dumbness, but yeah, some AIs seem downright dumb.
Gandhi in one of my games had like... 2 cities. I already was in medieval age and had at least some 12 cities.

 

[Evalis]

Try making it 2000 and see if it works. Yeah I know that seems silly.. but there is an aistrategy that has a value of 1000 already for when the AI's military threat is critical. In fact I think this is the root of all their stupidity. Basically what happens is the AI determines that it can be roflstomped and focuses all it's cities on production, ignoring tech, gold, and culture, which of course causes a perpetual spiral of worse and worse military, constantly placing them in the critical threat zone. Unfortunately this is tied to another command somewhere that I've yet to find (it doesn't appear in military strategy from what I can tell) that forces all their cities to produce units.

So we have a bunch of high production, low food, low gold, low science cities pumping out seriously outdated units and ignoring expansion and pretty much everything else. Of course there is another hard code that you can't see called 'enough_expansion' .. so maybe the computer already reached it's limit? In any case you can't tell the computer when it has reached it's expansion limit as there doesn't seem to be a value for it.. unless I'm missing something.


Edit: On second thought.. maybe those leader flavors can't accept a value that high. What if you set them all to 8? Does ghandi expand?