Great Moments in AI City Placement

[Fei Kelei]

It's no secret to anyone that the AI sucks at city placement, but I've played a lot of Civ IV and I've never seen one this bad:

Spoiler :

It's common to see the AI stupidly settle on top of gold and deprive themselves of a high commerce tile, but settling on top of corn next to three gold hills? That has to win some sort of prize.

 

[ywhtptgtfo]

I've seen worse. For some reason, the A.I. likes to not settle on river tiles.

 

[sherbz]

I've seen worse. For some reason, the A.I. likes to not settle on river tiles.

I disagree. Thats awful from the AI. Ive never seen that. Its made worse by the fact it can only *compete* with the opposing AI (or OP) for the additional gold tiles when they fit into border pops. Ive seen the AI found an awful awful city next to a strategic resource just so it can get its benefits. This post flies in the face of all logic, AI or otherwise!

 

[Dragonxander PR]

I also notice the obsession of AIs when it comes to settle atop lone hills--isn't that poor, lonely hill worth mining!?

I also notice that the game's included mapscripts force bad settling spots, including ocean fish only reachable from a hill or oil only accessible from a food tile.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

When I started playing, I used to place my cities like the AI does, thinking it knew what it was doing.

Note to new players: The AI is giving a you wonderful tutorial on what not to do.

 

[xenex]

The thing I find so funny when it comes to city placement, is that the AI civs are horrible at it, but the barbarians always put their city right where I dotmapped my next one.

 

[Dragonxander PR]

If it's that way, why not try to replace the AI player city placement codes with those of the barbarian city spawns?

 

[theskibum]

The thing I find so funny when it comes to city placement, is that the AI civs are horrible at it, but the barbarians always put their city right where I dotmapped my next one.

I have had this happen many many times. Its great to take cities exactly where you want them without building the settler.